If you don't have the idea of freedom in the first place, you cannot understand the meaning of freedom, you cannot realise the opportunities for freedom.

Even if there are you may ignore them or, as so-called Kurdish leaders did, kill them.

The last ten hours at UN, could actually be the Kurdish ten hours that would shake the world.

They could be the ten hours that would force very one to utter the forbidden magical word Kurdistan.

Our Hushyar Zebari could become the hero of Kurdistan, the talk of the universe, the true voice of history.

We could have turned the UN upside down, inside out, without any cost to us apart from the reward of freedom, the respect of the world, the rejoice of our martyrs.

Human beings are distinct from animals by their ability to speak their minds, to express their thoughts and to use language to represent their identity, entity, dignity and just demands.

We had opportunity to speak out, we were as silent as sacrificial lambs.

We had opportunity to freedom through self-determination,  they exchanged it to slavery through Iraqi sovereignty.

A Kurd calling for full Iraqi sovereignty, full restoration of the genocidal regime.

A  Kurd calling for occupying forces to leave Iraq.

A Kurd at UN, killing our moment of speech, our moment of international respect and recognition, our moment of freedom.

Britain, US, European countries, Security Council members were hectically engaged at this crucial moment for both Bush administration and Blair government, to reach  a compromise on Iraq.

And no Arab Iraqi Arab group accepted compromise.

And one single sentence from great respectable Sistani was enough to reduce Kurdish giants to little mice.

Whey didn't Talbani and Barzani address the Security Council directly?

Why didn't great Zebari or Barham, advise them to address the Seuritry Council directly.

Why did they only address, or rather send a feeble complaint as loyal servants, to President Bush while it was clear he was only one player who needed all SC members.

But the whole world , the whole Security Council, could be only one part of the equation and the Kurds, yes we the Kurds, the other part.

Why didn't Zebari express our demand clearly, loudly, powerfully?

We could have shaken the world just by saying a simple sentence with strength and sincerity: Sorry guys. If you do not accept self-determination for Kurdistan, we would not be a part of your Iraqi game.

That was the will of our nation. That was enough to create history , to celebrate Kurdistan, to force the world into a new thinking about the meaning and reality of liberation.

We could have become the headlines of every newspaper in the world, the first item of every satellite, TV and radio news in the world.

We could have been us, free Kurds, not insulted Iraqis.

We could be free people who can speak and express themselves, not slaves who are afraid of using language.