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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: i-node who wrote (789548)6/14/2014 1:05:47 PM
From: Bilow  Read Replies (1) of 1573850
 
Hi i-node; Re: " Knocking off Saddam led directly to what happened in 2007. What is happening today is a result of Obama's idiotic "good war/bad war" characterization and his foolish position on the war from the outset.";

If Bush hadn't invaded, eventually Saddam would have fallen out of power for one reason or another and Iraq would likely either have fallen into civil war, or his dictatorship would have been replaced with another from some other Sunni leader. So while I wasn't in favor of the war, I'm not going to run around tearing out my hair over how evil we were to get involved in the place.

There's nothing inherently fair about democracy. Our introducing it gave voting power for the shiite majority over the sunni majority. They took that power and abused it similarly to how the majority Ukrainians abused their electoral victory over the Russian minority in Crimea.

It's possible for a majority to abuse a minority only when that minority really is powerless. But the Sunni are the majority islam and Iraq is directly connected to a bunch of really big Sunni countries. Democracy in Iraq cannot be stable until they agree to a federal type government like the one we started in the US. In short, they need state's rights. Same with the Ukraine but it's clearly too late in both.

-- Carl
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