[Vision2020] Just info

[Tom Hansen]

Huh?

 

All the Kurds want is their own country back.  Remember Kurdistan?

 

King George I promised the Kurds US support if they supported US involvement
in Persian Gulf War, Part 1.  They did and King George didn’t.

 

Tom Hansen

Moscow, Idaho

 

"If not us, who?

If not now, when?"

 

- Unknown

 

-----Original Message-----
From: vision2020-bounces at moscow.com [mailto:vision2020-bounces at moscow.com]
On Behalf Of Ron Force
Sent: Tuesday, August 30, 2005 1:35 PM
To: vision2020
Subject: RE: [Vision2020] Just info

 

Kirkuk is a disputed area. The dominant population was Kurds and Turkomen

until the 1980's, when Saddam started expelling them, and bringing in Arabs

to control the oilfields. The Kurds are attempting to return and declare

Kirkuk as their capital. There's also a significant minority of Christians.

Kirkuk is an oil-producing region, and control over it means control of

significant wealth.   So, the soldier would have to have known to which

group he was referring when he said they want us there. Obviously, the Kurds

are enthusiastic US supporters, the Turkomen less so, and the Arab

population, not at all, although the US presence has so far protected them

from massive ethnic cleansing by the Kurds.

 

>From the BBC: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/2935362.stm

 

"The Americans seem to be completely lost," says Hasan Muhamad, a colonel in

the new Kirkuk police force.

 

"They are all military, they don't understand the politics of the place."

 

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Ron Force          Dean of Library Services

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Moscow ID 83844    rforce at uidaho.edu

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I had a fascinating talk with a soldier who is home from Iraq on Saturday

about how things really are in Iraq. I had heard a talk show host quote the

Brookings institute stats and found them to see how they correlate with the

soldier experience.

One of the things the soldier told me was that there are mud homes in Iraq

that look like they've been there 400 years and recently they have satillite

dishes on them. I found this good news. Not that they may just be watching

reruns of Dallas but that they may be watching the BBC, CNN, Fox or anything

other than Al Jezera(spelling?). I was informed that they are and that in

Kirkuk where he is working the people are very aware of why we are there and

have no desire for us to leave soon.

 

 

 

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