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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: one_less who wrote (224707)3/19/2007 4:02:06 PM
From: Lazarus_Long  Read Replies (2) of 281500
 
Consider these questions, not an attack.

"Religions:
Definition Field Listing
Muslim 97% (Shi'a 60%-65%, Sunni 32%-37%), Christian or other 3%"
cia.gov

Now if you're a Sunni in Iraq `and you're choices are to support and maybe join an Iranian fellow Shia invasion by Iran or be slaughtered by Sunnis, which would you choose?

Based on population, the Shiites got it.

There are also the repeated American charges that Iran is supporting the Shia mlitias in Iraq (al qaeda, of course, supports the Sunnis).

If Iran invades, I wouldn't be surprised to see the Turks invade and take the Kurdish north.

The trick is the Saudis have said they will support the Sunnis. With their small population, they can themselves do little, but they can finance resistance.

The rest of the world may have opinions, but what will they do? We know the UN is useless.
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