From CNews - World, 10/2/05 – http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/World/Iraq/2005/10/02/1245460-ap.html:
See also http://www.islamonline.org/English/News/2005-10/02/article05.shtml.
If the Kurdish-Shi’ite alliance splits, what then? Will the Kurds declare independence? How will this affect the scheduled October 15 referendum on the new constitution?
Not so much. The Iraqi parliament just lowered the bar for passage to the point where nothing short of the second coming of Jesus can stop it.
They can do that?
Yeah, I guess so, why not . . .
As alluded to in the OP, Kirkuk is the next big thing. Before all is said and done, it will take center stage in the struggle between the Kurds and everyone else. It’s too big a prize for either side to give up.
And I’m not altogether sure why people think the adoption of the constitution will be “disastrous” for the insurgency. Why should it be, after all?
Because then we will have turned a corner and the insurgency will be in it’s death throes. Or so I heard.
You said it. And how many corners do you have to turn before you end up right back where you started?
Well, we talking about fractals here?
Sua
I understood there would be no math.