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Read  Good to know. On the other hand, the Kurds of northern
Iraq's autonomous Kurdish Regional Government fear and distrust
Turkey as well. They're the closest allies the U.S. has in Iraq,
and the U.S. occasionally relies on them to broker political
truces between the Arab Sunnis and Shiites. They don't like
being bombed and invaded, and, not unreasonably, blame the U.S.
for the Turkish incursion.  Add to that the Shiite-dominated
government, which has its own uneasy relationship to its
American patron, looks weak in the eyes of both its own people
and regional governments because a neighboring country is
bombing and invading what's technically its territory with no
reprisal. It comes at an inopportune time: that Shiite
government is already pretty angry at the U.S. for funding and
arming anti-government Sunni ex-insurgents who swear they would
never dream of using their weapons against the government. And
it's in the eyes of precisely those roug