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To: DuckTapeSunroof who wrote (27717)	4/16/2008 9:06:58 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71588

The Kurds in this context wouldn't be insurgents, at least not in any serious numbers. When your talking about the conflict in Iraq, insurgents are the people who fight against the Iraqi government. Those who just try to target US forces or other non-Iraqis should also be included if the reason for the attacks is to try to weaken the position of the Iraqi government. Some of the Kurds might reasonably be considered terrorists, but not mostly terrorists against the US, or the Iraqi government, or even other Iraqi ethnic groups, but instead against Turkey or Iran. and arguably far more funding (which is diverted to armaments as well as Swiss bank accounts) and training and supply is sucked out of foolish old 'Uncle Sammy' by the Shiites then they could possibly ever hope for from much less well-off Tehran. We send more to the Shiites in the government, but the opposition gets more from Iran.