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Deminpenn

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4. The Kurds are able fighters, but they don't want all of Iran

Reply to Blues Heron (Reply #3)

Thu Mar 5, 2026, 10:51 AM

Mar 5

just as they didn't want all of Iraq. Kurds only want that parts of the Iran/Iraq/Turkey that they consider their ancestral birthright.

The CIA has such a dismal track record of these proxy wars, a future Congress would be wise to ban the practice.

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