Talabani and Barzani Have Become US Puppets: The US Alone Is Preventing A Kurdistan

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Has the modest demand of federalism evaporated too?

23/04/2003 KurdishMedia.com
Arbil-Kurdistan (KurdishMedia.com) 23 April 2003: During a press conference in Arbil, the capital of South Kurdistan, Jay Garner, the retired US general and the civilian administrator for post-Saddam Iraq, said that the U.S. would build a democratic Iraq. Garner avoided using the word "Federal" in his speech and he never says "Kurdistan", uses "Northern Iraq" instead, just like Turkish and Arab nationalists.

One of the reporters asked during the press conference about Garner’s thoughts on what Jalal Talabani, Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) General Secretary, said about "Federal-Democratic Iraq". Garner very confidently and without any hesitations replied that he had discussed the issue of a democratic Iraq and that the PUK leader had no objections, implying that a "Federal" Iraq was not an issue.

In a separate press conference yesterday, Garner emphasized "a democratic Iraq with central government," not a Federal one.

Massoud Barzani, the president of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP), also in his closing speech in yesterday’s press conference, noticeably cut out "Federal" from "Federal-Democratic Iraq".

However, Jalal Talabani, in his colsing remark, passively mentioned Federal-Democratic Iraq.

Now that the US does not need a "northern front" and has no interest in Kurdish aspirations for a "Federal" structure, will soon expect the Kurdistan Parliament to be dissolved. This brings up the question whether Kurds in south Kurdistan were better off under the "no-fly-zone."

The PUK and the KDP have put all their eggs, despite the will of the Kurdish people, into the Iraqisation of the Kurdish issue, which will only hatch to be yet another monster central government in Baghdad.

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Many Kurds see Garner as being pro-Kurd since he helped establish the no-fly zones, but such beliefs are naive at best. Garner is proUS and will do whatever benefits US interests in the region. He supported the Kurds when they were useful as a buffer against Iraq. Now the Kurds only have a short term role in teh US plans. The US needs the Kurds to police Nothern Iraq before a proUS government is in place in Baghdad. After that, Kurds will be seen as a threat since Turkey remains a US ally (and major trading partner). The US has no "friends" only those who help its interests; to see the world in any other light is to ignore history.

Allowing the Kurds to declare independence would be the first day of a perpetual war between Kurdistan and Turkey/Iran.

You like to see blood? You like to see terrorism? You like to see women and children killed?

The least-bloody and most-stable solution is to have a federal Iraq with a Kurdish province.

Iraq did not exist untill 1922 and was a creation of Winston Churchill.It was very much like the creation of Yugoslavia which in turn you take a bunch of little Arab tribes and clump them together into a state.Kurdistan basicly got sqeezed out and sufferd since.
What happend to the Kurds under Saddam was 100 times worse then what Isreal did to the Palestians.They have there own languge and uniqe culture and don't belong in an Arab state.
If Turkey does'nt like it,tough shit.

"You like to see women and children killed?"

No. I'm not a conservative.