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2007-06-23 Iraq

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Posted by lotp 2007-06-23 09:11|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top
File under: al-Qaeda in Iraq

#1 There is a 3 hour delay at the water board due to an increase in late arriving candidates. Additional tanks are being constructed as we speak which will relieve the demand resulting from the ripping of a new arrowhead.

Posted by wxjames 2007-06-23 11:07|| 2007-06-23 11:07|| Front Page Top

#2 Interestingly enough, it used to be a guiding principle of authoritarian regimes ruling over divided peoples that first thing, you create a national police, and have policemen from one group policing the group different from their home region.

Then, you create a program like Tito and Saddam did, of intermingling your peoples to make them more homogeneous. But what afflicted them both was that they went at it in a half-assed manner.

Instead of a program that would blend them so thoroughly, while under tight control, that it wouldn't matter where they went in the country, there would be NO ethnic or religious difference, there were still entire regions heavily dominated by different groups.

On top of everything else, you need to create what amounts to duplicates of every special ethnic monument or treasure, like in Iraq of a special mosque, and insure that every different group has a stake everywhere, not just in a particular place.

Posted by Anonymoose 2007-06-23 11:23|| 2007-06-23 11:23|| Front Page Top

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