Still in Nothern Iraq, Michael Totten has a video interview with Iraqi Kurdish Peshmerga Colonel Salahdin Ahmad Ameen in his office in Suleimaniya, Kurdistan:

He also told us about the notorious Abu Ghraib prison – where he was beaten and tortured by the agents of Saddam's regime – about the Peshmerga's doctrine of human rights during war time, Henry Kissinger's betrayal in 1974, why the Kurds have not yet declared independence from Baghdad, and what may happen if the United States withdraws its armed forces from his country. 'Eight times, eight times the American people have disappointed us. I ask the American people, not make it nine times," he says.