Kurdish leader warns of Iraqi civil war

[sabra]

Source: USA Today

BAGHDAD — The leader of Iraq's Kurdish region warned Tuesday of a "real civil war" if the government in Baghdad does not allow a referendum on the future of the oil-rich city of Kirkuk.

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Nationally, the dispute over Kirkuk pits the Kurds, who want to annex the city to their largely autonomous region in northern Iraq, against the country's Arab majority and its small minority of Turks, known locally as Turkomen.

"Frankly I am not comfortable with the behavior and the policy of the federal government on Kirkuk," Massoud Barzani, the leader of the Kurdish region, said in an interview with U.S.-funded Alhurra television.

"There is procrastination (by the government) and if this issue is not resolved, as I said before, all options are open," he said


Read more: http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/iraq/2007-07-31-iraq-kirkuk_N.htm

[Tyler Durden]

1. This is the place we want "leave stabilized."

CAN WE GO HOME NOW, MOMMY?

[damntexdem]

2. The war that comes won't be civil.

It will be even less so than the civil war now raging in Iraq.

Dubya and the Bushistas were warned that this would happen, and they lied us in anyway.

[Kagemusha]

3. Attention to jaded desensitized casual readers: this guy means it & can deliver.

This is not good news at all.

[acmavm]

4. I once read a Calvin and Hobbes cartoon with Calvin saying 'Life is one

of those things that no matter how bad things are they can always get worse.' (Or words very close to that effect.)

Well, take out the word life and substitute Iraq and you've got our current situation.