i guess I did not know what you mean when you say You still have never answered my question about the Kurds possibly having the means to really put the hurt on anyone who screws them again. "
So you think that if the kurds do not get whatever they want, then they will use weapons of mass destruction on us?
are you worried about americans, other kurd groups or turks or iraqis hurting the "kurds"?
there are at least three groups of kurds. I just do not understand the logic that if the Kurds do not get the oil fields they currently do not have, they will be mad at the US and use weapons of mass destruction