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To: bentway who wrote (283264)	4/6/2006 4:44:58 PM
From: Jim McMannis	Respond to of 1577067

I recall Clinton saying not to invade Iraq because of possible civil war after the glue "Saddam" was taken out of the equation. I agreed with him. Maybe we should have surrounded Iraq and let them "have at it" BEFORE moving in.

To: bentway who wrote (283264)	4/9/2006 3:47:06 PM
From: tejek	Respond to of 1577067

Trust me, Kurdistan was never a separate country throughout the history of the ME. At best it was a province whose boundaries to this date are still ill defined. Becoming a separate country is a fantasy of the present Kurds who could care less what the impact it has on the other countries in the region. Their demands have less credibility then a demand by Bavaria to become an independent country........and Bavaria was an independent city-state as late as the 19th century: "Kurdistan (literally meaning "the land of Kurds")[1] is the name of a geographic region and a cultural region in Middle East inhabited by Kurds. It is not an independent state. The region was known with various spellings during the ancient history of the Mesopotamia. The ancient Sumerians referred to the region as Kur-a, the Elamites as Kurdasu, the Akkadians as Kurtei, the Assyrians as Kurti, the Babylonians as Qardu, the Greeks and the Romans as Corduene. The term Kurdistan was used for the first time by Sultan Sanjar the Seljuk King in the 12th century. He formed a province named Kurdistan centered at Bahar situated to the northeast of Hamadan. This province, was located between Azerbaijan and Luristan. It included the regions of Hamadan, Dinawar, Kermanshah and Senna, to the east of the Zagros and to the west of Sharazur (Kirkuk) and Khuftiyan, on the river Zab.[2] The exact borders of Kurdistan are hard to define. It is generally held to include the regions in northern and northeastern Mesopotamia with large Kurdish populations. According to Encyclopaedia Britannica, Kurdistan is a mountainous region of Turkey, Iran, Iraq, and Syria, inhabited predominantly by Kurds. According to Encyclopaedia Britannica, Kurdistan covers about 74,000 sq mi (191,660 sq km), and its chief towns are Diyarbakir, Bitlis, and Van in Turkey, Mosul and Karkuk (Kirkuk) in Iraq, and Kermanshah in Iran.[3] According to Encyclopaedia of Islam, Kurdistan covers around 190,000 sq km in Turkey, 125,000 sq km in Iran, 65,000 sq km in Iraq, and 12,000 sq km in Syria and the total area of Kurdistan is estimated at approximately 392,000 sq km [10]. The boundaries of the modern ethnographic region of Kurdistan overlaps with parts of the ancient Assyrian Empire, which was overthrown and its people assimilated by Medes and various other tribes as well as parts of the historical ethnic homeland of the Armenian people. While Iran and Iraq acknowledge Kurdistan as parts of their territories (Iraqi Kurdistan region in Iraq and Kurdistan Province in Iran), Turkey and Syria do not recognize Kurdistan as a demographic or geographic region." 72.14.203.104