And the american people are grateful to them, and the american government should recognize it and act accordingly. Well, I'm not satisfied at all. I don't think America has made the kinds of overtures to the Kurds that they should have. I think that in this effort to try to run everything through the iraqi central government, all they do is, as the gentleman said, they strangle the Kurds and they strangle Kurdistan, and it does not have a good outcome. (06:29–06:35)
CLAIM
Asserts that the U.S. has not adequately supported the Kurds.
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