Frederick Sweet writing for Intervention Magazine on Palestinians, But Not Kurds:
The Bush administration has publicly said, it opposes the establishment of an independent Kurdish state in northern Iraq. Saddam's Iraqi enemies in Baghdad agree with Washington on this. Although America's administration and future Iraqi leaders may have irreconcilable differences going back to the beginning of the 1990s, they see eye to eye when it comes to the Kurds. This Iraqis are fighting Saddam, but they will not allow the Kurds to come close to anything resembling freedom in their own nation.
Of all the Kurds' tormentors in recent Middle Eastern history, Saddam Hussein stands out as their most brutal murderer. Saddam had gassed them by the thousands in his 1988 ethnic cleansing program. At the time, President George Bush senior ignored the gassing of the Kurds because Saddam was his ally in the Iran-Iraq war. But today's George W. Bush has adopted the gassing of the Kurds by Saddam as a clich‚ and a battle cry.
Yep. And after we're through in Baghdad, the situation will change very little for the Kurds. The plight of the Kurds makes a good PR angle for the Administration when beating the drums of war. And that's about it. They don't really care. Turkey's loyalty trumps Kurdish suffering and subjugation.
So much for "liberation."