Rumsfeld shows Iraq Election Hand Too Early

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While the Kurds are the only faction in Iraq who seem capable of semi statehood, we have no intention of allowing them to play a significant role in any democracy in Iraq.

Though they hardly cooperate with us at all, Turkey's status as one of thefew "Allies" in the war against terrorism gives them the same kind of control over us the Pakastanis already have. That's why we let them deal exclusively with the border regions, even though we know Bin laden is there. It's going to be the same in Northern Iraq. We don't let the Kurds have much power, they don't fuck around with the Kurds.