lets hope that things go smooth, but the way they r going, ot seems that the conditions r rushing towards either a very loose federation or an independent Kurdistan. Kurdistan has long been the need of US in mid-east, situated at the juncture of Iran and Turkey.

Masud Barzani who is the head of current semi-autonomous Kurd region is staunch anti-Iranian. His father Mustafa Barzani had links with the US too. Kurd region of Iraq even has its army called Peshmerga.

It will be useful information that Iraq has the least number of Kurds (4.5 million) and yet they have the greatest autonomy in Iraq than either Iran or Turkey. Iran had 7.5 million Kurds in 1950. Add to it the population growth as well as the influx from Iraq, courtesy Saddam.