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Politics : GOPwinger Lies/Distortions/Omissions/Perversions of Truth -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: geode00 who wrote (10249)	4/14/2004 9:48:31 PM
From: PartyTime	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 173976

This could be the deal. Think about it. US Army and Air Force military bases get built near Kirkuk oil fields. Assurance to the Turks that so long as the US is present, the Kurds won't be any problem. No formal independent Kurdish state thus gets declared. This makes Turkey happy. The US will claim all of this is in the name of NATO, or to help boost NATO--which Turkey is a part of. Because of the Sunni/Shiite havoc, and without their cooperation, the US decides it's forced to claim the spoils of war, and occupy friendlier northern Iraq, with a claim on its oil fields, all in the name of the Kurds as cover. Bush insiders get greased, pipelines get built, Kurdish labor gets exploited. In effect, Northern Kurdish Iraqi territory becomes a US protectorate, much like Pueto Rico. This seems to be the deal. The need for a protectorate state thus trumps the goal of democracy. Southern Iraq becomes a sister state to Iran, but that's OK 'cause the big military bases are now securely located in the heart of the MidEast, ready for the next taking down the road.