Kurdistan is an autonomous region of Iraq.  Do we really know much about the Kurds?  Saladin?  This map shows what area is wished to be the independent nation of Kurdistan.  Iran, Turkey, Syria, and Iraq (ergo the United States and its coalition) need to be more aware of this situation.  Economically this map encloses the oilfields of northern Iraq and southern Iran as well as parts of the aforementioned Turkey, Syria and northwest Iran.  Where will this Iraq War end?  Where does the Kurdistan question fit into all of this?