Love To The Kurds

You've gotta love the Kurds:

Erbil, Kurdistan (VOI) -Iraqi President Jalal Talabani's son Qubad Talabani said having U.S. forces in Iraq would "spare the Kurdish people any forms of injustice," stressing that setting up a U.S. base in Iraq's Kurdistan region "is in favor of both the United States Kurdistan."
"We have to explain to our American friends that their interests with the Kurds are not just political. They are also economic and military," Qubad Talabani, the representative of the Iraqi Kurdistan Region's government in the United States, said in a press conference in Erbil, capital of Kurdistan, on Friday.

Several Kurdish officials had expressed readiness to accept a U.S. military base in the autonomous Iraqi Kurdistan region, in the northern part of the country, which is nearly independent from the Iraqi state since the end of the 2nd Gulf War in 1991.

On the reasons for the Kurds' fears about their future in Iraq despite the presence of a constitution and a government where the Kurds are active, Talabani said "history has left its imprint in our memories. We have to have fears about the emergence of a dictator, whether in Iraq or in a neighboring country."