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.Sometimes we saw guys who were less stupid who just let us pass through.More or less stayed the same until we got up around Baghdad.At which pointthree things happened in pretty rapid succession, Bad, Good, Really bad.(Orat least I thought so at the time.)I'll take the "good" first since it leads to the "bad" and the "really bad" ispretty unconnected.The good was that we finally got ahold of the Kurds.I've spoken about the Kurds a little but I figure I'll add some detail.The Kurds are a mountain people found in the mountainous triangle of what usedto be Iraq, Turkey and Iran and is now Kurdistan good and proper.They're pretty much descended from the Hurrians (look it up) and have been inthose mountains for fucking ever.Like the Nepos there's some basicsimilarities between all Kurds:They're generally fairly tall for the region, not giants just a bit aboveaverage.They're very straightforward compared to anybody else in the whole fuckingarea, even to an extent the Greeks.You don't spend ten minutes exchangingpolite inquiries about their family with the Kurds; you get to the point.They love Americans despite the fact that we've regularly fucked them over.(Ditto British.)They treat their women just about as badly as any other group in the MiddleEast.Perhaps a touch worse.By the same token, they're pretty okay with womenin positions of soft power like doctors.They are hard-core, in-your-face,Page 134 ABC Amber Palm Converter, http://www.processtext.com/abcpalm.htmlone-of-us-is-going-to-get-fucked-up-and-it's-you fighters.Since back in the Bronze age they've gone through periods of conquering thelowlands around them, getting pushed back by a big "settled" empire, raidingsaid empire until it takes them over, fighting against the conquerors untilnearly wiped out, becoming the best fucking fighters the empire has after ittacitly lets them run things in their own area, waiting until the empire fallsand repeat.Suleiman, one of the most famous warriors of Islam and the guy who kicked thefuck out of one Richard the Lion Hearted? Kurd.That's the Kurds in a nutshell.So we finally got ahold of the Kurds when we were southeast of Baghdad andtrying to screen past.To our east were the Zagros Mountains.As a foretaste of what was to come theywere covered in fucking snow about two thirds of the way down.They also had abunch of bad-boy Iranians in them and we'd picked up indicators of someorganization, a couple more city-state groups, around Ilam and Khorambad.Theywere reputed to be remnant Revolutionary Guard back in command and had somefair forces.We did not want to tangle with them in mountains.Especiallymountains covered in snow.So we were keeping to the lowlands, hoping to slip through between Baghdad andthe mountains and avoid major conflict.My initial goal was the Kurdish region.Why besides the above?During the latter reign of Saddam Hussein the U.S.had established a "no-fly"zone over the northern part of Iraq.(And the south but it was differentthere.) They also sent in SF teams to work with the Kurds.With no more than "keep the helos and planes off of us" and some spareequipment the Kurds kicked the shit out of everything Saddam sent at them onthe ground and established their own local democracy.Saddam purely hated theKurds; he'd used poison gas on them in his time.He wanted to be one of theguys that conquered them.Good luck, the Kurdish Perg Mersha were not going tobe beaten by a bunch of lowland driven wheat-farmers.But they really appreciated the help, little as it was.And when we went inand hung Saddam, the "Kurdish Provinces" were the only areas we didn't getfucked in.There were, basically, four cities in the "Kurdish Provinces." Two of themwere pure Kurdish; the other two had been "disputed."The pure Kurdish were As Sulymaniyah and, yeah, that's "Suleiman" and Kirkuk.The two "disputed" were Mosul and Irbil.See, Mosul and Irbil, pre-Saddam and during the first part of his reign, hadbeen pretty mixed cities.They were about 70% Kurdish with the rest beingAssyrian Christians, Turkics and a smattering of Islamic Arabs.More or lessin that order.There was just one problem.Oil was discovered in the Mosul Province.And arefinery got built.And what with ongoing resistance from the Kurds, Saddamcouldn't trust them around oil.So he purged a lot of the Kurds (and Assyrian Christians and such) out ofMosul and Irbil and settled "safe" Sunni Arabs in the area.(See above about the history of the Kurds.)When the U.S.came in, the Kurds got a partial beny on resettlement.A lot ofthe Sunnis hadn't wanted to be up there, anyway.As they left the Kurds movedback in.But a lot of the Sunnis, who made up the most hardcore faction of theResistance, fought back.So Mosul and Irbil remained war zones until the Sunniwere more or less wiped or driven out.(The reason the Iraq campaign reallystarted winding down.)Even before then, the Kurds had established a "no travel" zone in their coreareas including Kirkuk and Sulamaniyah.That is, they'd take in anybody but anIslamic Arab.Turkic? Come on in.Assyrian Christian? Love you guys.FuckingSunni or Shia Arab from down on the south plains? Fuck off.Which is why when U.S.units crossed the borders into what everybody calledPage 135 ABC Amber Palm Converter, http://www.processtext.com/abcpalm.htmlKurdistan, you could take off your body armor and relax.You could walk aroundin a market with no more bother than kids pestering you for treats.Peoplefucking handed you stuff like fruit.They loved American troops.But the battles around Mosul and Irbil never really stopped.The Sunnis alwaysgot weapons, money and people funneled into Iraq right up to the time of thePlague.See, Saddam had been a Sunni.Most of the surrounding countries,especially Syria, Jordan and Saudi, were either controlled by or predominatelySunni countries.They did not want the Shia in control in Iraq.That wouldcreate the possibility of a Shia Union with Iran.(Which is more or less what the Persian Union is, except it's secular.Well,as much as the U.S.is [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]
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.Sometimes we saw guys who were less stupid who just let us pass through.More or less stayed the same until we got up around Baghdad.At which pointthree things happened in pretty rapid succession, Bad, Good, Really bad.(Orat least I thought so at the time.)I'll take the "good" first since it leads to the "bad" and the "really bad" ispretty unconnected.The good was that we finally got ahold of the Kurds.I've spoken about the Kurds a little but I figure I'll add some detail.The Kurds are a mountain people found in the mountainous triangle of what usedto be Iraq, Turkey and Iran and is now Kurdistan good and proper.They're pretty much descended from the Hurrians (look it up) and have been inthose mountains for fucking ever.Like the Nepos there's some basicsimilarities between all Kurds:They're generally fairly tall for the region, not giants just a bit aboveaverage.They're very straightforward compared to anybody else in the whole fuckingarea, even to an extent the Greeks.You don't spend ten minutes exchangingpolite inquiries about their family with the Kurds; you get to the point.They love Americans despite the fact that we've regularly fucked them over.(Ditto British.)They treat their women just about as badly as any other group in the MiddleEast.Perhaps a touch worse.By the same token, they're pretty okay with womenin positions of soft power like doctors.They are hard-core, in-your-face,Page 134 ABC Amber Palm Converter, http://www.processtext.com/abcpalm.htmlone-of-us-is-going-to-get-fucked-up-and-it's-you fighters.Since back in the Bronze age they've gone through periods of conquering thelowlands around them, getting pushed back by a big "settled" empire, raidingsaid empire until it takes them over, fighting against the conquerors untilnearly wiped out, becoming the best fucking fighters the empire has after ittacitly lets them run things in their own area, waiting until the empire fallsand repeat.Suleiman, one of the most famous warriors of Islam and the guy who kicked thefuck out of one Richard the Lion Hearted? Kurd.That's the Kurds in a nutshell.So we finally got ahold of the Kurds when we were southeast of Baghdad andtrying to screen past.To our east were the Zagros Mountains.As a foretaste of what was to come theywere covered in fucking snow about two thirds of the way down.They also had abunch of bad-boy Iranians in them and we'd picked up indicators of someorganization, a couple more city-state groups, around Ilam and Khorambad.Theywere reputed to be remnant Revolutionary Guard back in command and had somefair forces.We did not want to tangle with them in mountains.Especiallymountains covered in snow.So we were keeping to the lowlands, hoping to slip through between Baghdad andthe mountains and avoid major conflict.My initial goal was the Kurdish region.Why besides the above?During the latter reign of Saddam Hussein the U.S.had established a "no-fly"zone over the northern part of Iraq.(And the south but it was differentthere.) They also sent in SF teams to work with the Kurds.With no more than "keep the helos and planes off of us" and some spareequipment the Kurds kicked the shit out of everything Saddam sent at them onthe ground and established their own local democracy.Saddam purely hated theKurds; he'd used poison gas on them in his time.He wanted to be one of theguys that conquered them.Good luck, the Kurdish Perg Mersha were not going tobe beaten by a bunch of lowland driven wheat-farmers.But they really appreciated the help, little as it was.And when we went inand hung Saddam, the "Kurdish Provinces" were the only areas we didn't getfucked in.There were, basically, four cities in the "Kurdish Provinces." Two of themwere pure Kurdish; the other two had been "disputed."The pure Kurdish were As Sulymaniyah and, yeah, that's "Suleiman" and Kirkuk.The two "disputed" were Mosul and Irbil.See, Mosul and Irbil, pre-Saddam and during the first part of his reign, hadbeen pretty mixed cities.They were about 70% Kurdish with the rest beingAssyrian Christians, Turkics and a smattering of Islamic Arabs.More or lessin that order.There was just one problem.Oil was discovered in the Mosul Province.And arefinery got built.And what with ongoing resistance from the Kurds, Saddamcouldn't trust them around oil.So he purged a lot of the Kurds (and Assyrian Christians and such) out ofMosul and Irbil and settled "safe" Sunni Arabs in the area.(See above about the history of the Kurds.)When the U.S.came in, the Kurds got a partial beny on resettlement.A lot ofthe Sunnis hadn't wanted to be up there, anyway.As they left the Kurds movedback in.But a lot of the Sunnis, who made up the most hardcore faction of theResistance, fought back.So Mosul and Irbil remained war zones until the Sunniwere more or less wiped or driven out.(The reason the Iraq campaign reallystarted winding down.)Even before then, the Kurds had established a "no travel" zone in their coreareas including Kirkuk and Sulamaniyah.That is, they'd take in anybody but anIslamic Arab.Turkic? Come on in.Assyrian Christian? Love you guys.FuckingSunni or Shia Arab from down on the south plains? Fuck off.Which is why when U.S.units crossed the borders into what everybody calledPage 135 ABC Amber Palm Converter, http://www.processtext.com/abcpalm.htmlKurdistan, you could take off your body armor and relax.You could walk aroundin a market with no more bother than kids pestering you for treats.Peoplefucking handed you stuff like fruit.They loved American troops.But the battles around Mosul and Irbil never really stopped.The Sunnis alwaysgot weapons, money and people funneled into Iraq right up to the time of thePlague.See, Saddam had been a Sunni.Most of the surrounding countries,especially Syria, Jordan and Saudi, were either controlled by or predominatelySunni countries.They did not want the Shia in control in Iraq.That wouldcreate the possibility of a Shia Union with Iran.(Which is more or less what the Persian Union is, except it's secular.Well,as much as the U.S.is [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]