Guess it's Miller time:

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Another DU'er posted about JM's blog concerns http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=2965331&mesg_id=2965331, so I thought I'd just look at what JM has been up to lately. Posted on her own webpage, http://www.judithmiller.com/news/index.php is a troubling article, indeed.

Commentary: The Weekend Interview -- Kurdistan's Massoud Barzani

The Wall Street Journal, October 28, 2006; Page A6

By JUDITH MILLER

ERBIL, Iraq -- Unlike Baghdad, 200 miles away, the air here does not echo with the sound of gunfire, car bombs and helicopters. Residents of this city of a million people picnic by day in pristine new parks and sip tea with friends and relatives at night. American forces are not "occupiers" or the "enemy," but "liberators." Mentioning President Bush evokes smiles -- and not of derision.

American forces were "most welcome" when stationed here at the start of the invasion of Iraq, says Massoud Barzani, the president of Kurdistan in the north. Not a single U.S. soldier was killed in his region, he adds proudly, "not even in a traffic accident." Would U.S. forces be welcome back now? "Most certainly," he declared this week in an interview in his newly minted marble (and heavily chandeliered) palace. The more American soldiers the better, a top aide confirms.

The secret of Kurdistan's relative success so far -- and of America's enduring popularity here -- is the officially unacknowledged fact that the three provinces of the Kurdish north are already quasi-independent. On Oct. 11, Iraq's parliament approved a law that would allow the Sunni and Shiite provinces also to form semi-autonomous regions with the same powers that the constitution has confirmed in Kurdistan. And while Kurdish leaders pay lip-service to President Bush's stubborn insistence on the need for a unified Iraq with a strong centralized government, Kurdistan is staunchly resisting efforts to concentrate economic control in Baghdad.

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JM then links to the original article in the Wall Street Journal, but it is by subscription.

Looks like at least JM, if not a number of other Aspen-ites favors partition. JM has been freelancing, as other links on her webpage indicate. Wonder how long it will be before she has a plum assignment at a think tank.