In a bold step toward an uncertain future, the Kurdish people living in northern Iraq are heading to the polls today to cast their ballots in a referendum for independence.
Every one of Kurdistan’s neighbors, plus some of the world’s leading nations including the United States and the United Kingdom, have condemned the referendum. Even bitter rivals Saudi Arabia and Iran are in agreement over this one.
It’s a regionwide referendum in the northern Iraqi Kurdistan region to gauge national support for an independence movement from Iraq. The vote is nonbinding.
United States and United Kingdom were the two powers that cause the disintegration of Iraq. The latest is a new outcome of the Iraq War. More problems to come.
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