Not the point.
The point was precisely that a "locally-grown" revolution would have had zero chance, and that the ONLY reason the Kurds had as much freedom as they did was because the U.S. was covering their ass with military air power, and more importantly, because Saddam didn't care enough about them to tear the Kurds a new one with ground troops.
The Shiites weren't that lucky. Check out how many mass grave sites in southern Iraq were in "no-fly zones."