Kurds

This WaPo piece follows on the NYTimes report last week that the Kurds were proceeding with their constitution which lays claim to the oil lands. So long as the Kurds are still complaining to try and shape the negotiations, we're not yet to that critical point. ....but we are getting closer.

Iraq's autonomous Kurdish region and the Iraqi government are closer to war than at any time since the U.S.-led invasion in 2003, the Kurdish prime minister said Thursday, in a bleak measure of the tension that has risen along what U.S. officials consider the country's most combustible fault line.

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