After the last Gulf War, I visited Iran to establish if aid from Ireland, through the Red Cross, had got through successfully. To my delight, it had. The Iranians were never given sufficient credit for what they did for the Kurdish refugees who fled, not from approaching Americans but from the advancing Iraqi army. How must the Kurds feel today, in a situation where the Turkish Parliament passed a motion yesterday to allow the Turkish military to invade northern Iraq. Everybody knows how the Kurds will be treated if that happens and they must be praying that the American Army gets there first.