I have come home and fallen into bed the past two nights due sickness...I actually feel better today and I think my fever broke last night...

We now have a full scale war in a region with three factions gunning for each other and waiting for an opening: the Kurds, the Turks, and the Iranians (dissendent or not). Right now, it looks like the Turks will deploy troops into Northen Iraq (Kurdistan specifically) having voted to allow US flyovers with that as a rider...the Kurds have already made statements that they will consider Turkish occupation an act of war...if a Turkish/Kurd war breaks out, then the Iranians will have little or no opposition to sieze Iraq's northen oil fields. Add to the mix the Iranian dissendent army backing Saddam Hussien (and residing in Baghdad) which could go either way (attacking the US or backing the US) and the US has officially stepped into one mess of a conflict...right now the stage is set for World War III....lord knows what will happen in Europe if Turkey gets bogged down in the Iraq-Iran-Kurd war and Russia/German/France get a bug up thier ass when there's a war at their back door...