Sunday, August 20, 2006

Emerging Kurdistan

Last week Turkish shells flew over the Iraq border targeting Turkish Kurd towns said to harbor Turko-Kurd insurgents.
Yesterday Iranian shells flew accross the Iraq border targeting Iranian Kurd towns said to harbor Irano-Kurd insurgents.
What next?
Syria shelling Kurdish insurgents in Iraq?
A horrible precedent has been imposed upon the world by the Powers that be.
It started long ago with targeting civilian populations.
Operation Desert Storm/Gulf war I is an example of the military doctrine of "shock and awe" , when the United States Airforce began a bombing assault on Iraq lasting "40 days and 40 nights" {to give it a Noaic biblical feel} and basically obliterated every road and bridge, airport and power station throughout Iraq.
The next example came under Bill Clinton , who as a favor to the emerging E.U. under U.N. mandate , bombed the utter crud out of Serbia, destroying roads and bridges, airports and power stations.
In Gulf War II our noble opening salvo was a bunkerbuster with Saddams' name on it.
What followed was typical blitzkrieg, what a money maker for the Media.
It has become the norm to just launch missles, rockets, shells and mortars into thy neighbors cities without warning.
So much for loving thy neighbor as thyself.
Witness Palestinians launching kassam rockets into southern Israel.
When Israel responded with force after a rocket landed near a school, and a soldier was taken prisoner, Katushya {yes Russian} rockets started falling on Northern Israel, launched by Hess Bah Lah, the Islamo-Fascist Iranian backed Shiite Lebanese homicidal Insurgents.
Iraqi Kurdistan was the target of Saddam Hussein in 1988 when chemical weapons were used
destroying thousands of lives , women and children, old and young alike.
So we have the Iraqi Kurds, who control approximately 1/3 of Iraq, who also hold the Iraqi Presidency having shells falling into their territory targeting their kin, who have fled to Iraq from oppression in Turkey, Iran, and Syria.
I had a conversation with my Aunt Donna Bluhm , a staunch Republican active in Michigan in the 1960s'-90s' , in 1988, " What will George Bush do about Saddam Hussein and his crimes of using chemical weapons on the Kurds?"
She wasn't happy with the question, she explained that we needed good leadership here in Michigan, and should focus on getting republicans into office at home and let the federal Government deal with foriegn policy.
Ronald Reagan had used Saddam against Iran in the Iran/Iraq war and had done very little on behalf of the Kurds. The whole story has never been fully revealed. So this will be a subject I will research.
Apparently the World doesn't care about Kurds.
They deserve to have their own Homeland under their own leadership, even if it means the loss of territory of to Turkey , Iran, Iraq and Syria.
The Kurds of Iraq are prospering, the city of Kirkuk and neigborhood produces huge amounts of oil, and the Kurds are beginning to share in the profits.
I think Iraq ought to be divided up into three parts.
The Shiite south, the Sunni west and the Kurdish North.
Kurdistan is rising and if anything good came out of Saddams overthrow, it will be the rising of the Kurds to realize control of their ancient lands.

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