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February 19, 2007
Kurdistan on "60 Minutes"
(Via Hot Air) About a year after Michael Totten visited Kurdistan and reported on its success as a peaceful prosperous region which is a separate country in all but name, 60 Minutes discovers this story. (Video)
Kurds don't want to be considered Iraqis, partly because Iraq (under Saddam) perpetrated massacres upon them, partly because they have always been an independent people, partly because they don't want to be engulfed by the instability which plagues Iraq now. They are not Arabs and don't feel a lot of affinity with Iraqis. (And now English rather than Arabic is taught in school as a second language.)
Kurds like America. Will Americas support the Kurdish desire for independence, or will other geopolitical interests get in the way?
The report shows the Kurdish checkpoints and a "security trench" on the border with Iraq. Long lines of cars waiting to get into Kurdistan while belongings are inspected. This is a shocking breach of international law! Where are the protests against "apartheid"?Where is the International Court in the Hague? Where is Roger Waters?
Judith | 02/19/07 at 04:38 PM | Categories: - Iraq
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