Reply #5: Your thinking is right on. The Kurds will take us all down and further

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destablize the ME. The oil resources is one reason why Saddam did not want the Kurds to become an independent state. It would have taken too much wealth from the greater Iraq. Over the past 3 decades the Kurds have shifted between villians and victims. Kurdish factions have killed each other at alarming rates and they are known to have committed atrocities against other Iraqis, killing thousands. Because the US had and has a vested interest in toppling Saddam, the Kurds were always pumped as victims under Saddam's rule. Nevermind that they were threatening to overthrow the Iraqi government and attempted assassinations of Iraqi officials. Now the chickens are coming home to roost as the Kurds will also become a thorn in the US side. Check out their history and you will find that there former ties with Israel that the Turks are well aware of. Only the uninformed or ill-informed Americans don't know the complexities of the ME situation. For most Americans is just a simple biblical story that makes them support Israel at their own expense.