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2006-09-08 Iraq

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Posted by Fred 2006-09-08 00:00|| || Front Page|| [2 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Oh the humanity! Iraq has been divided!!???!!

Posted by Thoth 2006-09-08 00:56|| http://www.evolvedamnyou.blogspot.com/]">[http://www.evolvedamnyou.blogspot.com/] 2006-09-08 00:56|| Front Page Top

#2 New law puts Iraq on verge of split....

Iraq's Sunni community, which is bitterly opposed to the prospect... bla bla bla etc.

Sure sounds familiar eh! LOL, Iraq's Sunni community is bitter and browned off but what the f*ck else should they expect but the same results based on the laws of cause and effect.

Yep let's thank Iraq's Sunni for having proved many times over that being Stuck on Sheer Stupid simply doesn't work. The blood thirsty idiots have happily gone about assassinating, bombing and sabotaging every reconstruction effort and golden opportunity to begin a new Iraq since Saddam was forced up North to hide out in his ~~Lion's Den~~ gopher hole.

Posted by RD 2006-09-08 03:35|| 2006-09-08 03:35|| Front Page Top

#3 I believe this was inevitable, since the Sunnis are, indeed, "Stuck on Sheer Stupid" as RD eloquently puts it. They fucked with the bull and got the horn. So be it.

It can have a "happy" ending if the Mad Mullahs are deposed. I wonder what the SCIRI and DAWA dickheads will do without direction from Qom / Teheran? LOL. Just as "Stuck" as the Sunnis, once they started feeling their oats and filled out the Govt with blindly sectarian morons. What a waste of the ultimate and classic Golden Opportunity.

At least the Kurds will make good and turn lemons into premium lemondade.

I don't give a flying fuck about the Arabs, anymore.

Posted by flyover 2006-09-08 04:55|| 2006-09-08 04:55|| Front Page Top

#4 An unified Irak si an absolute necessity: it allows Sunnis to get oil revenue from Shia and Kurdish oil fields while Kurds and Shia get... Err anby uideas over what Kurds and Shia get?

Posted by JFM">JFM 2006-09-08 06:14|| 2006-09-08 06:14|| Front Page Top

#5 The Kurds and Shia get a seething minority population and shorter borders.

Yep. That's it.

Too bad, tho. It woulda been better if they coulda played nice.

Posted by Bobby 2006-09-08 06:19|| 2006-09-08 06:19|| Front Page Top

#6 They get to live in Baghdad, perhaps. Actually, does anybody have any thoughts on who would be assigned Baghdad, before the inevitable infighting, Lebanese style, rendered the place to hulks and rubble?

Posted by trailing wife 2006-09-08 08:45|| 2006-09-08 08:45|| Front Page Top

#7 TW, that's an interesting question. I see Baghdad being split up (a'la Jerusalem, somewhat), except that it'd be muzzie on muzzie violence, not bombing innocent Jooooooz, like in Jerusalem. Popcorn, anyone?

Posted by BA 2006-09-08 10:19|| 2006-09-08 10:19|| Front Page Top

#8 The Kurds would get oil fields, the Shia would get oil fields, and the sunnis would get the army of occupation. Sounds fair to me.

Posted by wxjames 2006-09-08 10:27|| 2006-09-08 10:27|| Front Page Top

#9 Baghdad will be a bloody mess if this isn't handled well.

The Sunnis are afraid because they see federalism as a stepping stone to division. What needs to happen is that everyone gets educated as to what federalism can be. The U.S., Germany, and Switzerland, for example, are federal republics and everyone seems to make it work in those countries. We need to discuss with them the appropriate examples and rachet down the fear level a little. A federal Iraq with a central government that is strong enough to defend the country and distribute the oil boodle, but no stronger, with 'states' for each of the three major groups, could be a good thing if it allows the level of seething and eye-rolling to come down.

If the country does divide I don't care: as long as it's done peacefully (aka, Czechoslovakia --> Czech Republic and Republic of Slovakia), it's their decision. The geo-strategic implications are big, of course, but I wouldn't interfere with the decision. What we don't want is a bloody division that encourages the Iranians and Turks to step in.

Posted by Steve White">Steve White 2006-09-08 12:22|| 2006-09-08 12:22|| Front Page Top

#10 How are the Kurds going to get all that oil to market surrounded by enemies?

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2006-09-08 12:30|| 2006-09-08 12:30|| Front Page Top

#11 Pipeline to Haifa

Posted by J. D. Lux 2006-09-08 12:40|| 2006-09-08 12:40|| Front Page Top

#12 NS, the Kurds with a little help from their Texas friends could build a refineny and sell gas to Iran, Syria, Turkey, and sunni Iraq. Also, shia Iraq is not an enemy of the Kurds.

Posted by wxjames 2006-09-08 12:43|| 2006-09-08 12:43|| Front Page Top

#13 This would be bad how? Wasn't it the British the combined that region in the first place? Was that a good idea, no.

Posted by Icerigger">Icerigger 2006-09-08 14:21|| 2006-09-08 14:21|| Front Page Top

#14 Iraq is split into semi-autonomous regions at the present. The only part living under rule of law is the Kurdish part, the rest is enduring civil disorder verging on anarchy, "civil war" is too good a term for what is now going on. Kurdish Iraq presently uses armed guards along its borders to keep unwanted Arabs and other foreigners out. Breaking up Iraq seems more of a mere formality every day.

Posted by Ulelet Uniting8249 2006-09-08 16:58|| 2006-09-08 16:58|| Front Page Top

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