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To: Scanian

The Iraq War was a mistake. The Iraqi Sunnis, under Saddam, had the Shiites pinned down and the Iranians boxed in (somewhat). And we had the Sunnis pinned down under our sanctions and overflights.

Now the Iranians are unleased, the Shiites are running wild and America has fallen to a communist regime... all as a result of a misguided decision to launch this war.


8 posted on 08/03/2010 4:31:26 AM PDT by samtheman
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To: samtheman

Excellent analysis.

The enemy nations are Saudi Arabia and Pakistan.


15 posted on 08/03/2010 5:16:10 AM PDT by Jim Noble (If the answer is "Republican", it must be a stupid question.)
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To: samtheman
Now the Iranians are unleased, the Shiites are running wild and America has fallen to a communist regime... all as a result of a misguided decision to launch this war.

Ditto.

Our country is run by fools.

The key to understanding Iraq is the simple and quite obvious observation is that Iraq doesn't really exist - it is a purely jury-rigged political construct cobbled together by the British imperialists after WWI for the express purpose of creating a disharmonious state that would be easier to dominate. Iraq represents no national identity. There is no such thing as an "Iraqi." There are Sunnis, and Shiites, and Kurds and Turkomens and Chaldeans.

But there are no Iraqis.

Only a drooling idiot could have ever thought otherwise.

We can't build a new "Iraq." We might as well try to make a decent country out of, say, Afghanistan, which is made up of warring Pashtuns and Tajiks and Uzbeks and so forth.

Oh, sorry, I forgot. We are trying to build a new Afghanistan. Hahahahaha!!! Silly me. I seem to have a hard time accepting that our country is run by morons.

19 posted on 08/03/2010 6:16:13 AM PDT by Erskine Childers
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