Peshmerga refuses to withdraw from Iraqi territory

"AFP: Kurdish forces refuse to quit battlefield Iraq province

I wonder whether Maliki would dare to pull off a Charge of Knights (or a Georgia) against the two separatist Kurdish gangs to restore control over stolen Iraqi territories. Kurdish politicians have long ceased to act as partners and their ugly face has been revealed to Iraqis with their empty threats to use force to annex Kirkuk and large parts of the Ninewah, Salah ad-Din and Diyala governorates, over which they already exercise de facto military, intelligence and administrative control.

As one Iraqi writer recently put it, Kurds have a "state and a half" while Arabs who constitute an 80% majority only have half a state. The two Kurdish gangs hold the positions of President, Deputy Premier, Deputy Speaker of Parliament, Foreign Minister (in addition to control of seven other ministries), Iraqi Army Chief of Staff, and Iraqi Air Force Commander in the Iraqi government, yet the Iraqi government has absolutely no authority in the Kurdish region, not even to appoint a physician to a village's medical center or a traffic policeman."
Healing Iraq