{"id":29609,"date":"2017-09-26T13:34:36","date_gmt":"2017-09-26T20:34:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=29609"},"modified":"2017-09-26T13:34:36","modified_gmt":"2017-09-26T20:34:36","slug":"kurds-vote-for-freedom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2017\/09\/26\/kurds-vote-for-freedom\/","title":{"rendered":"Kurds Vote for Freedom"},"content":{"rendered":"

I find myself in the highly unusual situation in that I am on the same side of an issue as Paul Manafart, who is currently in Iraq, lobbying for Kurdish independence.  However, there is a difference.  Manafart believes what he’s paid to believe.  I decided that I supported partitioning Iraq, shortly GW ChickenHawk, attacked that nation in his Republican war for oil and profit.  Republicans gave us no oil.  Republicans gave us no profit.  What Republicans did give us is ISIL.<\/font><\/p>\n

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As jubilant Iraqi Kurds celebrated their vote Monday on independence from Iraq, shooting off fireworks and parading in cars festooned with Kurdish flags late into the night, their neighbors conducted military exercises on the region\u2019s borders, raising the threat of military intervention if it secedes.<\/p>\n

The vote played out on a historic day for several million Kurds in northern Iraq, and was a pivotal moment in the Kurdish dream of a politically independent state<\/a>.<\/p>\n

While officials said the vote would not be tabulated until at least Tuesday, it was expected to be overwhelmingly in favor of independence for Iraqi Kurdistan, the semiautonomous region in northern Iraq.<\/p>\n

Despite the celebrations, the vote may come at a steep political cost to the Kurds.<\/p>\n

It proved highly provocative for Turkey, Iran and Iraq, whose responses are likely to roil the region in the coming days, stirring the very turmoil that the United States hoped to avoid when it pressured the Kurds to call off the vote<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The White House has warned that a Kurdish move toward independence could set off ethnic conflict, and that it could fracture Iraq and undermine the American-led coalition against the Islamic State, also known as ISIS. \u201cWe hope for a unified Iraq to annihilate ISIS, and certainly a unified Iraq to push back on Iran,\u201d the White House spokeswoman, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, said Monday.<\/p>\n

The vote has strained Iraqi Kurdistan\u2019s relations with the United States, which relies heavily on Kurdish fighters to assist the American-led coalition against Islamic State militants. The region, which is landlocked, is vulnerable to growing threats of sanctions along its borders…<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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One reasons I have supported partition is that Iraq is an artificial country, created by Western powers in the aftermath of WWI.  It is made made up of three mutually hostile factions.  Forced together, there will be no lasting peace between them.  Another is that for years the Kurds were oppressed by the Sunni, and barring independence, they face oppression by the Shia.  Finally, I believe in the rights of all peoples to self-determination.<\/font><\/p>\n

I fully believe that, if the US does not oppose them, they will support us against ISIL, as it is in their self-interest to do so.<\/font><\/p>\n

RESIST THE REPUBLICAN REICH!!<\/font><\/font><\/h1>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I find myself in the highly unusual situation in that I am on the same side of an issue as Paul Manafart, who is currently in Iraq, lobbying for Kurdish independence.  However, there is a difference.  Manafart believes what he’s paid to believe.  I decided that I supported partitioning Iraq, shortly GW ChickenHawk, attacked that […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29609","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29609"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29609\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}