We third call upon the United States to extend the time that our forces will be available to help protect the Kurds because. if this deadline is not extended. Saddam Hussein and the Iraqi Army is poised to go into Kurdistan. crush the Kurds. and inflict hundreds of thousands of casualties. And we will again have a terrible. terrible refugee problem and thousands of dead. I urge my colleagues in the House of Representatives to look at this resolution. which will be heard either next week or the following week in the Subcommittee on Europe and the Middle East of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs and to Join with us who want to see this area preserved and the Kurds protected as one of the oldest races on the face of the Earth. dating back to the ancient Samaritans. The Kurds are the largest ethnic group in the world that has no homeland.