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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: sea_biscuit who wrote (502387)	12/2/2003 5:43:42 PM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	Respond to of 769667

"the Sunni/Shia/Kurd/Turk rivalries" >>> Bush I knew of them... that was the reason he and Scowcroft stated for not continuing the war the extra day or so it would have taken to depose Saddam --- they feared the disintegration of Iraq --- that, and the Saudis threatened to renege on their check. >>> But then, Bush I never had much vision. >>> There was an interesting letter to the editor in the Times last week, that called for allowing Iraq to reform into more rational states. (The boundaries of modern Iraq were cobbled together by the Brits after WWI from three different Ottoman-ruled provinces.) If Iraq broke-up... the Shia south would have oil wealth, the Kurdish north would have oil wealth... and the Sunni middle around Baghdad --- which has ruled and repressed the others --- would have to fend for themselves... but they could choose to ally with Jordan or Saudi Arabia (their ethnic kin and co-religionists) I suppose. >>> I'm not at all sure that there is any American advantage to be gained by holding together this 'Frankenstein' of a country....