The Kurds In Iraq

In Iraq, the Kurds have been unwelcome by the governments for many years. As many as 182,000 Kurds were killed by Saddan Hussein, who used chemical weapons and concentration camps against them. The Western world must support an independent Kurdish state as it is responsible for the addition of the Kurds to Iraq. After the first world war, multiple Ottoman provinces were annexed by Britain to the newly formed Iraq as a way of main taining religious balance, but these predominately Sunni Kurds were not welcome by the Shia Iraqis. Kurdistan would create a rare example of a Muslim Middle East Democracy.
There are approximately 35 million Kurds. This is the largest people group on earth without a homeland. There will always be extremist Muslim