Ad run by Tweety's show: The Other Iraq.

[EFerrari]

"Have you seen the Other Iraq?

It's spectacular.

It's peaceful.

Welcome to Iraqi Kurdistan.
Where democracy has been practiced for over a decade. It's not a dream.
It's the other Iraq.

The people of Iraqi-Kurdistan invite you to discover their peaceful region, a place that has practiced democracy for over a decade, a place where the universities, markets, cafes and fair grounds buzz with progress and prosperity and where the people are already sowing the
seeds of a brighter future."

http://www.theotheriraq.com/

[BeatleBoot]

1. They are pulling out all stops to prevent impeachment.

We saw it, too.

Maybe Bush should go on vacation there. Maybe buy a second home.

These guys are backed up like rats in a corner - scared shitless.

[Sapphocrat]

2. I've seen it 2-3 times.

Not on MSNBC (which I try to avoid), but yeah, a couple of times on at least one other channel... and the first time, I was waiting for the punch line; I was certain I was watching a promo for "The Daily Show."

It creeps me out!

[EFerrari]

8. I don't watch Tweety. He was on today by accident.

I tried to go to their site and figure out who wrote it but couldn't.

Sounds very Karen Hughes to me. :)

[BurgherHoldtheLies]

3. You saw it too!! You saw that too!!!

I thought I was just exhausted and my eyes/ears couldn't possibly have seen a tourist ad for "the other" IRAQ.

Ya, I'll be planning the family winter getaway ASAP to IRAQ. PUHLEEZE :eyes:.

[pooja]

4. Personally, I think it shows the obvious move for the Northern

part of Iraq to pull out and become Kurdistan (own country). They are clearly discerning themselves from the rest of Iraq.

[EFerrari]

12. Sure! And whatever PR BushCo can get, left handedly and at

who knows what price, cool.

And, we can all forget about that other OTHER Iraq. :(

/typing

[loves_dulcinea]

14. the turks would slaughter them

for even thinking it. why did they kill the armenians? wasn't it for a similar reason? i don't remember.

[rzemanfl]

5. Sounds like they are saying. We are not Iraq, we're like a

whole other country. No, wait, that's Texas, isn't it?

[tabatha]

6. Two Points

Kurdish democracy was not a result of war.
Did this not start under Clinton?

[EFerrari]

10. This ad campaign didn't. Before BushCo, the Kurds had no reason

to distract from our quagmire. :)

[gatorboy]

7. "Fewer than 200 coalition troops are stationed here."

:rofl:

Is that suppose to be a plus? Sounds like a swipe at the U.S.

[EFerrari]

11. Ya think?

lol

[HysteryDiagnosis]

9. I've seen the other Iraq that LynntheDem showed me..... here

it is.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=364&topic_id=758458
Accepting Washington's pronouncements about a vanquished Iraqi military, up to 400,000 Kurds undertook a ferocious spree of mayhem that rivaled that of the Shia. According to Mackay, in the city of Kirkuk "no one bothered to count how many servants of Baghdad were shot, beheaded, or cut to shreds with the traditional dagger stuck in the cummerbund of every Kurdish man. By the time Kurdish rage had exhausted itself, piles of corpses lay in the streets awaiting removal by bulldozers."
http://www.democraticunderground.com/articles/03/09/12_...

"It was a revolution," says one Basrawi rebel named Mohamad, who deserted his army unit after the intifada began and eventually made it to the United States. "It was glorious. There were demonstrations and shooting. There were bodies all over the place. The persons who got killed on the Ba'athi side deserved to be killed."
http://www.motherjones.com/news/feature/2001/11/iraq.ht...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=364&topic_id=949408

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=364&topic_id=711139

[AX10]

13. Any well being of Kurdistan is NOT due to the US.

[BurgherHoldtheLies]

15. LBN thread: Kurds flee homes as Iran shells Iraq's northern frontier

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=102&topic_id=2462480&mesg_id=2462480

Guess the tourist ads are a bit premature.

[bridgit]

16. it's kurdistan...

maybe time to start to consider partitioning iraq back into it's natural, millennial flow of ethnic & tribal sovereignties :shrug:

[EFerrari]

17. While we can use that "area" as a loss leader? Not a chance.

:(

[bridgit]

18. tis a true pity that...

x(