Meanwhile we've been training Kurdish army in Northern Iraq. They are now ready and on the march:

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/storydisplay.cfm...ubsection=world

Military preparations within the Kurdish safe haven in northern Iraq, long defended by US and British airpower, are increasingly visible and there are signs that war is very close. In the mountain-top town of Salahudin yesterday some 600 soldiers with Kalashnikovs and rockets, who had just completed seven months, training, were marching down the main street. In the front line Pesh Merga are assembling in ever greater numbers.

Good find with this article IronHorse, a good read!

Sure do hope we treat them better this time than we did last time ...

True.
Afaik - Your presidet's plan this time is to build them a country in northern Iraq.
That is why Turkey is hesitating with respect of the support to US troops issue. Turkey has extreme objections to a Kurdistan state.