"US is abandoning plans to introduce democracy in Iraq"

[Peter K.]

>Reed Tryte wrote:
>
>>The Kurdish leaders are enraged by an American plan to
>>occupy Iraq but largely retain the government in
>>Baghdad. The only changes would be the replacement of
>>President Saddam and his lieutenants with senior US
>>military officers.
>
>Which is pretty much what the U.S. did in Germany & Japan in 1945, right?
>
>Doug

Yeah and look how badly that turned out, especially in regards to the warmongering Germans.

So Turkey is not going to let itself be a staging area AND demand
that the Kurds stay under a Sunni boot? Somehow I doubt it.

Peter