Kurdish Life articles from September 2006

Kurdish Life archives from September 2006

United we stand.
September 22, 2006... "As to the policy I 'seem to be pursuing' as you say, I have not meant to leave any one in doubt. I would save the Union. I would save it the shortest way under the Constitution. The sooner the national authority can be restored; the nearer...

Divided we fall.
September 22, 2006... This is the condition under which Iraq labors: Be it called "federalism," as Republican George Bush ordained for Iraq's constitution, be it called "partition," as Democrat Senator Joseph Biden renamed it, at the heart of the matter is the...

Shooting from the hip: targeting Baker-Hamilton.
September 22, 2006... It was October. Anticipating the findings of the Iraq Study Group fully two months prior to its release, Iraqi Kurds were not happy. Dr. Rashid Karadaghi could not wait to launch this missive: "On its surface, the Baker report seems reasonable,...

Waiting on Washington.
September 22, 2006... Last fall the Bush administration recruited General Joseph Ralston as its "anti-PKK coordinator," ostensibly to develop a plan for evicting Kurdish guerrillas from Turkey from bases in Iraqi Kurdistan. It wouldn't be the first stalling tactic....

Gaming Teheran.
September 22, 2006... On the first day of fall, Italy's Prime Minister Romano Prod, the first European leader to meet with the president of Iran, told a group of reporters: "Ahmadinejad indicated that Iran is willing to negotiate but there needs to be flexibility on...

Raising hell.(Iraq Study Group report)
September 22, 2006... "It is doubtful if the US would have rushed into its risky military adventure in the Middle East without the support of Ziocons. Empires in decline are tempted to shore up their standing with military adventurism. With their superb...

Stuck on stupid.
September 22, 2006... "It's hard for me, you know, living in this beautiful White House, to give you a firsthand assessment." President George W. Bush. February 07 It's hard for him? By the 26th day of September of 2006 some 2,699 men and women of the U.S....