Last week at the NATO summit, Bush embraced Turkey as America's most important democratic ally in the Muslim world and insisted Iraq would remain unified. But others are not so sure. "If the Kurds decided to walk away nobody's going to stop them", says Marina Ottaway, a security analyst with the US Carnegie Endowment. "Is Bush going to go to war with the Peshmerga? Is Bush going to try and subdue Kurdistan militarily? I believe the Kurds will play the game as long as they get their autonomy and if they don't get it, they'll walk."

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