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To: kumar who wrote (84816)	3/21/2003 10:18:52 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Hi Kumar. I wonder if Turkey invading Iraq is any different from Saddam invading Kuwait. I think they are going to have to be answerable to the United Nations fairly soon. If they are not enforcing a UN resolution, which seems unlikely, then they are conducting an illegal attack. I shall consult my Turkish correspondent [in Istanbul] and ask what's the deal. Turkey in Kurdistan is going to contribute to the need for the United Nations to take a major role. The USA might not look favourably on the move since Turkey has not acted in concert in making access to Iraq available through Turkey. This is getting interesting. I think there is more reason for Kuwait to be part of Iraq than for Kurdistan to be part of Turkey. For a start, the major population of Iraq should share the oil wealth more equitably than having a few sheiks in Kuwait benefit from a lucky drawing of a line on a map by the British last century. Better still of course is for the United Nations to take over the whole lot, Kurdistan to Kuwait, and use the oil to run self-governing regions of the area and to fund New World Order administrative and military requirements. Israel and Palestine could be next on the agenda. With Iraq's oil and a revamped UN a lot of good could be done to sort out that mess too. Mqurice PS: Analysis of the geopolitics of the middle east including Pakistan and India: idleworm.com