"But I didn't know until this day, that is was Barzani, all along."
Sounds like the partitioning of Iraq is right around the corner.
From the beginning - as part of the new Iraq constitution - Iraq needed a truly FEDERAL republic with less central authority, greater regional and provincial authority in order that no ethnic group felt its own needs were being under represented in Baghdad. If power and responsibility is really dispersed federally, then there will less bickering in the national arena. But Maliki and his Shia groups have been wielding power as if its time the Iraq Shia “got theirs”, sustaining or creating ethnic tensions, turning a deaf ear to the needs and desires of the non-Shia provinces and perpetuating ethnic tensions in Iraq. In that environment it is no accident the Kurds are tired of waiting for Baghdad to resolve its differences with them. Maliki has mostly himself to blame.