In reguards to AndyBlue that block real Facts. Andy Believes its not as easy as not killing the contractors rebuilding. Well Everyone Can look to the Kurds. My broinlaw is there after 2 tours in Bagdad fighting every other day to not raising his gun in 11 months being in Kurdistan. It truly is that simple you liberal coward.


Iraq’s Kurdish community, essentially unrepresented in and repressed by previous
Iraqi governments, is emerging as a major force in post-Saddam Iraq. The Kurdishinhabited
regions of northern Iraq are relatively free of insurgent activity and
reconstruction is proceeding there. The Kurds are also flourishing politically through
recent national elections, raising concerns that the Kurds might use their new political
strength to serve their own interests at the expense of a unified Iraq.

Iraq’s Kurdish community, essentially unrepresented in and repressed by previous
Iraqi governments, is emerging as a major force in post-Saddam Iraq. The Kurdishinhabited
regions of northern Iraq are relatively free of insurgent activity and
reconstruction is proceeding there. The Kurds are also flourishing politically through
recent national elections, raising concerns that the Kurds might use their new political
strength to serve their own interests at the expense of a unified Iraq.

ERBIL, NORTHERN IRAQ - The Erbil International Trade Fair opened yesterday. Representatives of western brands like Microsoft, Cisco Systems, Mercedes Benz, Sony and Massey Ferguson are pitching for business from local companies and investors. It seemed astonishing to browse the high-tech gadgets and displays and meet agents sent from London, New York, Beirut and Dubai.


Why? Drive just a few hours from Erbil, the regional capital of Kurdish northern Iraq, and you reach cities like Mosul and Kirkuk, still suffering from daily killings and bomb attacks. Three hours to the north is the Turkish/Iraqi border where troops from both countries are massing, awaiting a threatened Turkish incursion against PKK bases nearby.

But the Kurdish region of Iraq is open for business. Gleaming shopping malls and apartment complexes are being built. Western firms and Arab consortiums see the region as an emerging market with potential as a gateway to the rest of Iraq. If and when sectarian violence cools, the Kurds will be ready to capitalise.

Hrmm I believe their the last intellegent people in Iraq