[quote=HeySeuss]
The Kurds are motivated enough, if only by the prospect of breaking off from Baghdad and taking the oil with them. The peshmerga are willing to fight and the Kurds have been holding up in their part of Iraq all along.
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Taking their portion of the oil with them. Most of Iraq's oil reserves are outside of Kurdistan.

Incidentally though, the Kurds definitely have a good future ahead of them, at least in Iraq.