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Article: Caldron in Northern Iraq. (Comment).(Iraqi Kurdistan)
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- The Nation
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- March 24, 2003
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Erbil, northern Iraq
Northern, "free" Iraq looks more and more like Lebanon in the old days: venue of not one war but many. It should have been so simple. The US armed forces were to land in Turkey and base themselves in friendly Iraqi Kurdistan on their way south in Operation Impose Democracy. Democracy in Turkey, however, intervened, to close the Turkish road to Iraq. Meanwhile, Turkey's real rulers--the army command, Kurd killers as much as Saddam--intend to invade Iraq themselves. That will add at least one extra war to the impending chaos.
Does the United States need a northern front to crush Saddam's feeble army? Probably not. I met an Iraqi Army ...