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Strategies & Market Trends : The Epic American Credit and Bond Bubble Laboratory

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To: zonder who wrote (11607)4/11/2004 11:51:58 PM
From: Cogito Ergo Sum  Read Replies (1) of 110194
 
Zonder..
Why would this time be different ? I hope you are right but...
I Guess back then no thought was given to differences between Sunni and Shia.. And lets throw some ethnic problems into the mix.. but we are much wiser and altruistic now... ;o)
2. We recommend, in the second place that the unity of Mesopotamia be preserved: the precise boundaries to be determined by a special commission on boundaries, after the mandate. has been assigned. It should probably include at least the Vilayets of Basra, Bagdad, and Mosul. And the Southern Kurds and Assyrians might well be linked up with Mesopotamia. The wisdom of a united country needs no argument in the case of Mesopotamia.
hri.org

Or has it always been about oil ? naw!
theworld.org
Said Aburish: The agreement between the British and Iraq regarding the rights to the oil of the country is one of the most criminal documents I have ever read in my life. It is aimed at keeping Iraq in the dark ages.
OR
Jeb Sharp: Much of the subsequent horsetrading had to do with oil. Under the original agreement, the French were supposed to get the province of Mosul in the north of Iraq. But the British began to suspect there was oil there and backpedalled on that part of the deal. Reluctantly the French let Mosul go. But only on condition they get a share of any future oil revenues.

Try this one bookcomplex.org

And the Kurds ? I hope they wise up... They deserve a break... Message 18568116
but whose interests will really be served...

regards
Spots..
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