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To: swarthyguy

This idea is a recipe for an endless oil war in Iraq, the Sunnis will never allow themselves to be totally economically wiped out by the Kurds and Shia making their own states.

Al-Qaeda would have a long term base in Anbar to plan the next 911 and Iraq would be a country in endless war an turmoil a hundred times worse then it is today.


15 posted on 10/27/2005 1:16:33 PM PDT by jmc1969
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To: jmc1969

Does he really want another Psaletine?


17 posted on 10/27/2005 1:17:42 PM PDT by RobbyS ( CHIRHO)
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To: jmc1969
This idea is a recipe for an endless oil war in Iraq, the Sunnis will never allow themselves to be totally economically wiped out by the Kurds and Shia making their own states.

First, the Kurds are Sunnis as well. You are referring to the Sunni Arabs who make up 20% of the total population. They used to run the show in Iraq by oppressing the majority of the people, i.e., the other 80%.

It is not a matter of whether the "Sunnis will never allow themselves to be totally economically wiped out by the Kurds and Shia." In terms of the power equation, the Sunnis are at the bottom. If the Kurds and Shia were so inclined, they could crush the Sunni Arabs. That said, there is little likelihood at this point that Iraq will split up into three countries.

Al-Qaeda would have a long term base in Anbar to plan the next 911 and Iraq would be a country in endless war an turmoil a hundred times worse then it is today.

If the Shia and Kurds wanted to be as ruthless and cruel as Saddam, AQ and its Sunni Arab sympathizers would be wiped off the face of Iraq.

114 posted on 10/27/2005 3:05:47 PM PDT by kabar
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