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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: geode00 who wrote (218355)2/14/2007 1:05:37 AM
From: Dayuhan  Read Replies (1) of 281500
 
The answer remains blindingly obvious... though I can't tell which blindingly obvious answer you need unless you define your question a little more accurately.

When did al Sadr become a problem? I suppose you could say he became a problem when his father was assassinated, though he was Saddam's problem then, and he kept a rather lower profile, for obvious reasons. Americans probably realized he was a problem with the assassination of Ayatollah Abd al-Majid al-Khoi, but the problem was there from the start.

What Saddam did to the Kurds (or helped Kurds do to other Kurds; we often forget the history of Kurdish infighting) would take too long to type; check Google. You'll find plenty.

Now, when you say you don't understand why the US can't "win" in Iraq, what do you mean by "win"?
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