Word: kurds
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...members. They also want to require lawmakers to pay the full cost for flights they take on corporate jets. As part of his hearings, Biden will bring in Peter Galbraith, a foreign policy expert who backs Biden's preferred strategy in Iraq, dividing the country into Sunni, Shiite and Kurd regions. For his part, Obama is looking for ways to stop Bush from increasing troops in Iraq, such as inserting a provision in the bill that funds ongoing military operations to forbid money from being spent on additional troops. Dodd, Kerry and another potential White House hopeful, Hillary Clinton...
...lonely Kurd, exultant in the local paper after Saddam is hanged. Or the local mobster of Kazakh extraction. Or the Nepalese bureaucrat on a city government exchange program, whose father’s untimely death necessitated the retrieval of warm bull’s urine for mourning rites...
...form of a list of reconciliation “milestones.” If the Iraqi government fails to make these concessions, then America should reduce or completely suspend its military and economic support. Unsurprisingly, the Iraqi government spat venom on the report, and Iraqi President Jalal Talabani, a Kurd, called the report an “insult” to Iraq’s people. He claimed that the report smacks of the 1980s and early 1990s American mindset, which favored order and a Sunni tyranny over the potential mayhem of a more democratic system...
...Saddam's trial was fair or impartial. The Coalition Provisional Authority, the institution dedicated to dismantling Saddam's regime, established Saddam's tribunal. Its first head was the nephew of Ahmad Chalabi, the Iraqi exile who dedicated his life to destroying Saddam. The tribunal's presiding judge is a Kurd from Halabjah, the Kurdish city Saddam gassed in 1988. How could the man vote other than to execute Saddam and still expect to go home to Kurdistan...
...agencies, milestones for achieving tasks, various branches to the plan to accommodate the unexpected, and metrics for judging success, followed by an exit plan. Do you want Iraq to look like Iowa? Or is it sufficient that there are three regions of Iraq [Shi'a, Sunni and Kurd] co-existing in a loose federation with their own militias...