Just how many more times can a Bush double-cross a Kurd?

[dArKeR]

In his eagerness for the approval of the Shiite religious leader -- and driven by desperation to get yesterday's unanimous UN resolution in time for the G8 meeting -- US President George W. Bush may be double-crossing the Kurds, our most loyal friends in Iraq.

Not a single US soldier has been killed in the area of northern Iraq patrolled by the pesh merga, the army of Kurdish Iraqis who have brought order to their region. Savaged by former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein's poison-gas attacks in the 1980s, Kurdistan

was abandoned by former president George Bush to Saddam's vengeance after the first gulf war. When our conscience made us provide air cover in the 1990s, the Kurds amazed the Middle East by creating a free, democratic mini-state within despotic Iraq.

http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/edit/archives/2004/06/11/2003174623

[amber dog democrat]

1. three times ?

One time to incite to rebellion and then withdraw all support after we give the Iraqis back their gunships

One time to enter into an interrim agreement that gaurentees their limited autonomy and then not write it into the provisional Govt,

and ( but wait, maybe they WON'T give us another chance to leave them hanging out to dry )

With friends like the US, ....

[MikeG]

2. You can't polish a Kurd.