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					Originally Posted by martinguerre
					
				 Plus, theorizing an indepentant Kurdistan presupposes an Iraqi civil war. | 
	
 Not necessarily. Maybe the use of the term 'Kurdistan' is a sticking point. I was referring to a Kurdish territory in the federalist sense - a part of Iraq, yet independent in its own internal affairs, as Detroit is within the United States, for example.