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Article: Dethrone Saddam; Protect Kurdish independence.(OPED)
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- The Washington Times (Washington, DC)
- Article date:
- February 22, 2002
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Byline: Jeffrey T. Kuhner, THE WASHINGTON TIMES
The Bush administration's campaign against global terrorism has the potential to transform the Middle East and usher in a new era of democracy and peace. Nowhere is this more evident than in Iraq, which continues to menace its neighbors and is governed by one of the world's most brutal dictatorships.
Yet as the White House considers targeting Saddam Hussein in the next phase of the war on terrorism, it must deal with an issue that successive administrations since the end of the 1991 Gulf War have been reluctant to confront: granting independence to the Kurds in northern Iraq.
Two prominent human ...