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SHRED

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Sun Dec-18-05 10:34 PM
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The Kurds want autonomy;...

...and will fight for it.
The Shi'ites are largely backed/funded by Iran, and the Sunnis will fight both for a share in the oil they don't have control of any longer. The Sunnis use to control 80% of oil revenues. Now they have a mere 5%, according to Juan Cole.

This is a recipe for disaster and the "media", and pResident, are curiously silent while the dumbed down American public (TV) thinks that "democracy" will solve everything.

The place is a powder keg and idiots who know better, like Joe Biden, are waving a purple finger in the air.:banghead:
:rant:

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eleny

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Sun Dec-18-05 10:39 PM
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1. Well said

It's like there's some alternate universe they keep trying to stuff the public into.

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AZBlue

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Sun Dec-18-05 10:50 PM
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2. Who says Iraq has to stay together as one country?

I mean, I know the idiot "leaders" of our country would die of embarassment if it split apart, but who cares about them. I mean anyone with intelligence - has this even been discussed?? The modern state of Iraq was created by the British in 1932- it's not a country that grew out of a group of people who wanted autonomy together as that group. It's a disaster. Maybe some people just shouldn't be forced to live together! I don't pretend to understand fully the long and complicated history of the area, but it just seems to me that perhaps the Brits made a mistake.

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SHRED

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Sun Dec-18-05 11:00 PM
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3. Agreed but...

....listening to the MSM and pResident you'd think that there was one Iraqi "people".

I just think we are not be leveled with as to the greater Hell to come as we try to force our(USA) idea of what Iraq should look like, on to the Sunnis, Shi'ites, and Kurds.

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AZBlue

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Sun Dec-18-05 11:04 PM
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4. Level with us? No, we can't handle the truth.

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roger72645

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Sun Dec-18-05 11:24 PM
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5. Roosevelt, Stalin and Churchill created Iraq at the end of WWII

so the Sunnnis, Kurds, and Shias would fight among themselves and never become a threat to the West.

It is indeed a powder keg and there is not a lot we can do to change it.

Makes you wonder if the Sunnis didn't come out in large numbers last Thursday to hasten the process of forming a "government" just so we would get the hell out of Dodge and the festivities can begin.

Little do they know it was never about "democracy" and they will be sorely disappointed.

GWB is making enemies faster than we can kill them.

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