they're kurds!

[chestertime]

not "those people in the north of iraq"

doh!

[schmeisser]

lol
It's tougher without a script like the other guys :D

[LFOD]

yeah brain fart oh well.

point stands "it's their country"

everyone else seems to think it's OURS

[gerryb]

Most Americans don't know the names of the different factions in Iraq anyhow, so a slight brain fart there isn't a big deal.

[davidhperry]

Most Americans don't know the names of the different factions in Iraq anyhow, so a slight brain fart there isn't a big deal.

Yeah, it's somewhat of a flub but oh well. Hopefully, people will look at the substance over the style.

[Mithridates]

There aren't just Kurds in the north of Iraq, there are a lot of Turkmen there too (a few hundred thousand) and they speak a completely different language. Armenians as well. 'Those people in the north of Iraq' is correct.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Iraq_demography.jpg

[Politeia]

There aren't just Kurds in the north of Iraq, there are a lot of Turkmen there too (a few hundred thousand) and they speak a completely different language. Armenians as well. 'Those people in the north of Iraq' is correct.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Iraq_demography.jpg

Thanks for the clarification, Mithridates; I gather you come from that general area as well?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mithridates

That Dr. Paul doesn't know the details of the complex demography of the Middle East should not be a strike against him anyway; the area is not part of the United States, and no American president has any legitimate need to know all about it -- only to maintain open and friendly relations with peoples there as with all peoples of the world.

Always remember: "If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about answers." (Thomas Pynchon said that.) The question is not: "What shall we do about the Kurds (or anyone else) in Iraq?" The question is: "Why the #$%^& is it any of our business who lives where in Iraq?"

P.S.: Ido? Don't know much about it, but was for a while an Esperantist myself. Comes from Esperantido, I believe?

[Mithridates]

Thanks for the clarification, Mithridates; I gather you come from that general area as well?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mithridates

That Dr. Paul doesn't know the details of the complex demography of the Middle East should not be a strike against him anyway; the area is not part of the United States, and no American president has any legitimate need to know all about it -- only to maintain open and friendly relations with peoples there as with all peoples of the world.

Always remember: "If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about answers." (Thomas Pynchon said that.) The question is not: "What shall we do about the Kurds (or anyone else) in Iraq?" The question is: "Why the #$%^& is it any of our business who lives where in Iraq?"

P.S.: Ido? Don't know much about it, but was for a while an Esperantist myself. Comes from Esperantido, I believe?

Turkmen: I have nothing to do with them personally but I've been studying Turkish for a while now and have read and heard a lot of reports about the lives of Turkmen in Northern Iraq from Turkish BBC. They're not the majority of course, but there are still enough of them to make them Iraq's fourth largest demographic.

Ido: That's right, it was started in 1907 as a reform of Esperanto but the Esperanto community voted against adopting them so they had to change the name from Esperanto to something else. I learned Ido in 2005 and it has a community of about a thousand or so people. My favourite auxlang (and the only one I've actually used in person as opposed to just writing in it online).