US has already done a deal to discard the Kurds

[a_unique_person]

After all the crocodile tears about the Kurds, it appears the US has already made a deal to let the Turks at them.



His special envoy, Zalmay Khalilzad, meanwhile tried to reassure the Iraqi opposition in general that there would be some form of Iraqi transitional administration within two months of the war. He also attempted to mollify the Kurds, furious at the recent agreement between the US and Turkey, which will allow a very substantial Turkish army to enter Iraqi Kurdistan, telling them that the US will prevent any "unilateral" Turkish actions.




http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/03/02/1046540066386.html

some other interesting points about the peace. As I have already asked, the war is being organised like an olympics, but the peace is still very much a matter of debate within the administration. how can you start a war, if you don't know what you want it to achieve. Unless the war itself is the only real aim.

[Pyrrho]

The Kurds have Turkey to worry about...wasn't there a news story about a possible Turkish incursion into Iraq?

[crackmonkey]

Turkey is terrified of fleeing Kurds streaming across the border into Turkey. They feel that any more of a Kurdish population would constitute some kind of critical mass that would explode into civil war. To prevent this, they are sending troops to patrol the border region.
Not a difficult concept - no need for conspiratorial double-dealing fantasies.

[Crossbow]

Why should anyone be surpised about his news?

There are Kurds in Turkey, Russia, Saudia Arabia, and Iraq, and the US had interests in all of these countries which are more valued than relations with the Kurds.

Am I the only one who remembers how the first Bush refused to support the Kurds when they tried to rebel against Saddam after he asked the people of Iraq to rebel against Saddam?

That action alone should tell volumes.