Do the fears include the possibility of a military confrontation between the central government and the Kurdistan Region?
We hope this will not happen. We are not thinking that matters would reach this point. There will be no repetition of this in Iraq, God willing. We all must use the weapon of the Constitution to resolve our problems and not think of another way, particularly the military way. We hope that we will not have to get to that point. Whoever uses the Constitution as the arbiter will ultimately win. What have the American forces provided to the Kurdistan Region? Actually, the American forces have no presence in the Region. They had no presence and had not given us anything, even in term of aid. I say frankly that the US Administration has not given any aid to the Region. All expenditures took place in central and southern Iraq and not in Kurdistan. We had no security or administrative vacuum after the fall of the former regime. The Kurdistan Region existed before the arrival of the Americans, and it will continue to exist after they leave. But America’s presence now protects Iraq against many
