Quote (inkanddagger @ 1 Mar 2011 05:18)

It says in that article that insurgents destroyed the electrical infrastructure and that the US has been rebuilding and getting things back on line.

sayin'

Quote (brmv @ Mar 1 2011 01:20am)

would there be insurgents if the usa (together with gb and australia) would not have invaded iraq under phony pretext

just saying

Quote (inkanddagger @ 1 Mar 2011 05:22)

Nope, but how much of those problems were already problems under Hussein?

askin'

Quote (AEtheric @ Feb 28 2011 10:13pm)

At least your spelling coincides with your opinons, though.

Quote (MyEnemy @ Feb 28 2011 10:12pm)

Yes my opinions and facts are all made up. You know everythign from your home. You're a fucking idiot. I am in iraqi kurdistan right now you moron. And yes they have a completely seperate government. They don't even let Iraqis not from Kurdistan into Arbil. I've spoken with Kurds, I'm friends with Kurds here, I know Iraqi arabs as well. If you were in Iraq you might realise the tension between them. It's obvious Iraq has every intension of using the firepower we have given them to take kurdistan back once we leave.

But hey I'm sure the 5 minutes you spent googling makes you a subject matter expert, you fucking idiot.

Quote (brmv @ Mar 1 2011 01:25am)

far less than now
and people actually could afford petrol
unemployment was far lower
the complete list would be far too long as you know

there definitely were nearly no problems at the time rumsfeld s... up to hussein

Quote (inkanddagger @ 1 Mar 2011 06:01)

I personally agree and don't think we should have ever invaded Iraq. My broader point, however, is that the cultural response to problems there seems to be a large contributing factor to the state of the nation, and while infrastructure problems certainly have a degree of influence, I'd have to say that I trust the words of someone who is over there far more than I trust anything I read on Google/Wikipedia/Etc.

Quote (general_patton @ Mar 1 2011 05:56am)

Can you speak Farsi or Arabic? What's your mother tongue? I'm not even familiar with what the locals speak there, I might be missing a language or an important dialect. .

Quote (brmv @ Mar 1 2011 04:52am)

another totally uneducated statement
maybe that comment about you being brainwashed (and thereby not being able to think clearly) made by someone else is true
iraqi kurdistan (which is only a small part of kurdistan) has been a semi-autonomous area for some time (prior to the last invasion)
and beyond being semi-autonomous they do not have a government seperate from iraq
have a guess: did the kurds vote in the iraqi election?
your statement is just a s logical as saying that the us army will conquer texas or puerto rico

just in case you do not know
there are twice as many kurds in turkey than in iraq
and roughly the same number of kurds in iran as there are in iraq
and there are plenty in syria and some other countries

what will the declaration of an independent kurdish state do for regional politics?

(note: why is the northern part of iraq looking nicer than the rest? maybe less bombing by foreign nations?)

Quote (Belaf @ Mar 1 2011 11:57am)

It's just Kurdish, Sorani, Kurmance, Badini w.e

I'm Kurdish and MyEnemy knows his stuff, ofcourse we deserve our own country, will we ever get it? Probably not. It'll cause a lot of chaos between Turkey and Kurdistan.
We're a lot different from the arabs, we've got everything from a flag to our cuisine, but due too some stupid democratic decision made a hundred years ago we didn't get our own nation.

Don't judge us because we're middle-eastern, Kurds have fought side by side with American militants, I've spoken too a lot of american soldiers myself, some assholes but many good ones.

Anyways, nice too see a topic about it once in a while.

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