Kurdish National Congress of North America
P.O. Box 90823 , Nashville , TN 37209
Mr. Barack Obama, President
United States of America
The White House
January 9, 2010
Honorable President Obama:
The U. S. ostensible support to the Kurds in 1972 convinced the Kurdish leadership to believe that America had an interest in the Kurdish situation and would assist them to achieve their goals in Iraq and transform Iraq to a democratic state. As it turned out, the U. S. apparent support to the people of Kurdistan was nothing but a gambit and an empty promise. Because, in 1975, exactly one year after the war between Iraqi regime and the Kurds had restarted, Henry Kissinger played a very crucial role in forging a pact between Iran and Iraq he successfully was able to bring the parties together in Agiler under the Alger Agreement that ended the Kurdish revolution to secure their God0-given rights. Later, Henry Kissinger referred to the apparent U. S. and described it as “it was to put pressure on Iraq’s pro-Soviet government.” Mr. President, if it were not for the American schematic support, the Kurdish leadership would probably have used a different approach with the Iraqi government to achieve a common ground. But Kissinger meeting with General Mustafa Barzani in 1972 changed the dynamic of the Kurdish purview vis-à-vis America’s involvement in Iraq. As a result of Kissinger’s deceptive approach the Kurdish leadership were not only able to achieve a common ground with the Iraqi government, but also endured a catastrophic collapse before the Iraqi despotic regime.
Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait in 1991, created a menace against the regional stability and Saddam’s ambition to obtain nuclear weapons led American administration to form a huge international coalition against Saddam’s aggressive and irresponsible behavior. After Saddam’s invading forces were driven out Kuwait President Bush refused American forces to pursue the Iraqi forces and eventually remove Saddam’s regime, which at the time America had the support of a huge international coalition. Instead, President Bush called upon Iraqi people, as he put it, “to rise against the dictator, and when the Kurds and the Shiites so successfully rose against the Iraqi forces in their respective regions, the very same president who incited them to rise turn his back on them and permitted Saddam’s repressive force to have a free hand in suppressing the Kurds and the Shiites. As a result of President Bush’s reckless and irresponsible behavior a human catastrophe was created in Kurdistan-Iraq. Some two million people fled into the bitter cold mountains to escape an imminent death. While in the mountains, hundreds of innocent people including women, children, and elderly were dying on a daily basis. Eventually, under the world pressure and some his own constituents, President Bush decided to create a “safe haven” right above the 36th parallel lines which included Mosul, Duhok, Erbil—later shifted late to let Mosul out and Sulemani in which was supposed to be a temporary solution to prevent further human misery in Kurdistan. Sadly enough, it was the second U. S. betrayal of the Kurds after Nixon-Kissinger’s breach of honor in 1975, which resulted in the collapse of the Kurdish movement to achieve national and democratic rights for the people of Kurdistan in Iraq.
American mission in Iraq with regard to Iraq’s stability and transforming power to the Iraqis is nearing its final phase. Nevertheless, democracy for is only a distant dream. Looking back at the days prior to the invasion and especially when Turkish government did not allow the U. S. force to pass through Turkey our people along with their leadership committed themselves and stedfast with Americans and facilitated America’s mission in Iraq in removing Saddam Hussein’s tyrannical regime. Since the
Sincerely yours,
Kirmanj Gundi
President
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