Saddam Hussein is a monster, he did gas the Kurds and although the west did little at the time, it is part of the argument against the current Iraqi regime.
Part of the deal struck with Turkey to use military bases there, is reassurance against a successful Kurdish uprising in Turkey. To ensure this the Turks want to follow US forces into ethnically Kurdish Northern Iraq.
Any deal, must be to sustain the fragile equilibrium and that includes not buckling to some Turkish demands.
If the treatment of Iraqi Kurds is part of a moral argument against Saddam then it would be hypocrisy to betray them.
KurdishMedia Reports – latest Reports and opinion regarding Kurdish issues