Kurds got fucked over by Saddam? Kurds got fucked over by the british mandate, by the hashemite monarchy, by the baathists, by every single government that has been in control of Iraq since the end of british control. Then again they also willingly ethnically cleansed the assyrians when they got a chance to. Just like they did to the armenians in Turkey, the role of kurds in the armenian genocide is often overlooked to focus on the turks being responsable, but when you look at the lands where armenians lived they are overwhelmingly populated by kurds today. There are no good guys, it's all fucked. But I agree that today the kurds are more tolerant of other religious and ethnic minorities in Iraq than any other faction. The Peshmerga allowed and protected turkmen, yazidis, christians, etc.