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To: rsie who wrote (19555)	10/13/2003 8:34:02 PM
From: sea_biscuit	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42834

Of course, you will be able to distinguish who is Assyrian and who is not? As it is we are having problems identifying who are Kurdish Kurds, Turkish Turks, Kurdish Turks and Turkish Kurds, plus Sunnis, Shiites, Arabs, Persians etc. etc. (I believe the Kurdish Kurds and Turkish Turks are our friends while the Kurdish Turks and Turkish Kurds are not; Or is it the other way round? How can we be hostile to the Kurdish Turks while expecting Turkish Turks to be our friends. Or is it Turkish Kurds who will be upset? :-)) And barely 3 years ago, Dumbya couldn't even locate Iraq on a world map if his life depended on it. Now of course, he is an "expert" on this! Oh, I am sorry, he is not an expert, he is surrounded by experts. He is an expert on picking experts... that is why he is friends with Kurdish Kurds -- or is that Kurdish Turks?! AAAAARGGGH!!

To: rsie who wrote (19555)	10/14/2003 3:09:50 PM
From: sea_biscuit	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 42834

The Turkish Embassy has been bombed in Baghdad. Maybe the US has to go after the Kurds now and side with the Turks -- for the time being. That should make the Kurds mad and the Turks happy, I guess. The Kurdish Turkomans will be happy and the Ottoman Kurds being opposed to the Kurdish Kurds might be happy... or they might be mad. Who the heck knows???? Maybe the Abyssinians are involved too? Or maybe not! Oops! Wrong continent! But maybe there are fighters from there that have now entered Iraq from somewhere. You never know, you know! ;-) Now, whether all this will make the Sunnis happy or not is a coin-toss. But will it at least make the Shiites happy? Toss coin again. How about the Arabs, Persians, Assyrians... heck, maybe the Azerbaijanians and the Armenians will have something to say too... (and don't forget the Abyssinians! ;-) ) But we can be fairly sure that half of them will be glad and the other half will be mad. Trouble is, we don't know who belongs to which half! Well, we can leave that to the expert Dumbya who sits in the White House. Gee, I am so glad that we have such experts running our foreign policy!