The Third Hundred Years War Has 86 To Go

[Thumpalumpacus]

[Minimalist]

My money is on the Kurds.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/27/world...-iraq.html

Iraq Escalates Dispute With Kurds, Threatening Military Action

The Iraqi government escalated its confrontation with its northern Kurdish region on Wednesday, threatening to send troops and seize oil fields there and taking steps to shut down international flights to and from the region.

[Thumpalumpacus]

I hope the Kurds have the hatches battened down.

[Minimalist]

I hope they don't exhaust themselves picking up all the weapons the Iraqis drop.

[Fireball]

I hope they don't exhaust themselves picking up all the weapons the Iraqis drop.

  Never fired, dropped once.

[Minimalist]

I wonder how you say "Feet don't fail me now" in Arabic?

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92%

http://www.cnn.com/2017/09/27/middleeast...index.html

More than 92% of the roughly 3 million people who cast valid ballots on Monday voted "yes" to independence, according to official results announced by the Kurdish electoral commission on Wednesday.

[Minimalist]

Yeah.  I can hear an Iraqi cop saying "You want me to arrest WHO?"

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-41583900

Iraq orders arrest of Kurdistan officials over independence vote

That should go over well.

[Minimalist]

And off we go.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-41621754

Iraq conflict: Kurdish Peshmerga 'given deadline' in Kirkuk

The question is, whatever will we do?

[Thumpalumpacus]

There's already been shooting there, according to NPR.

[Minimalist]

The only thing that matters is will we be stupid enough to support the Shia government in Baghdad.

With the WLB, my guess is "yes."