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Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/09/opinion/09BARZ.html
What Iraq Needs Now
(New York Times) - Jalal Talabani and Massoud Barzani The first building blocks of Iraqi federalism and democracy have already been laid in Iraqi Kurdistan. Thanks to protection from American and British air power, facilitated by Turkey, Kurds have had 12 years of a sometimes faltering, but ultimately hopeful, experiment in self-rule, openness, and pluralism. With continued help from the U.S., and with our work on the interim Iraqi administration, what has become known as the Kurdish experiment in democracy can be a model for all of Iraq.