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Politics : GOPwinger Lies/Distortions/Omissions/Perversions of Truth
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To: Steve Dietrich who wrote (103833)7/24/2007 8:12:33 PM
From: one_less  Read Replies (1) of 173976
 
"Iraq doesn't want to be a country."

The popular vote of the people doesn't support your claim, you have only radical extremist insurgents and they don't support the outcome you claim Iraq wants.

Let's take the Kurds for example. They want to be an autonomous nation, Kurdistan. We used our force to help them by preventing Saddam from crushing them. That was a good use of force on our part. We're not in Kurdistan propping up a government that can't stand on its own."

Where is this Kurdistan you speak of? It isn't northern Iraq, it doesn't exist. Even if you sectioned off the Kurds in Northern Iraq the region they want involves an area of Turkey much greater than there region in Northern Iraq. That's why the Turkish army regularly crosses the border and exterminates as many as they can get to.

It's a related problem but not easily resolved simply by declaring northern Iraq to be a Kurdish nation. If you did that, we would see war from the Turks. They have already threatened to attack the Kurds unless we resolve the current threats they feel from the Iraqi Kurds.

"The Maliki government is different, it's a fiction. It would collapse in a second if we left. It has no legitimacy and no public support. "

That is a blantantly false statement on two counts. 1) its not a fiction. It is a legitimate system but it has a long ways to go. For example, over the next two years they have to establish local components. 2) It has public support from the majority of people.

The other point is true. It would collapse from pressure and attacks from extremists if we abandon the Iraqi people now.

"Everyone's just biding their time till we leave so they can divide up the country. It's inevitable."

I don't know the future. Certainly there are plenty of people trying to make it work. Not everyone is supporting its collapse like you and the other extremists.

"No flowery rhetoric can change it.

Words of reason, based on hopes for a better future, are mightier than the swords of tyrannical extremists and corrupt partisans.
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