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Politics : Don't Blame Me, I Voted For Kerry -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: ChinuSFO who wrote (17637)	4/24/2004 12:13:13 PM
From: miraje	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 81568

OK, you want serious?? They are freedom fighters fighting for a free and democratic Iraq. Talk about a reality disconnect... The last thing that those "freedom fighters" want is a free and democratic Iraq. The Shiites have the numbers. They are fighting to install a Shiite dominated theocracy. The Sunnis miss the days of their tribal leader, Saddam, who doled out goodies to them at the expense of the rest of the county. The Kurds would like nothing more than to establish an independent Kurdistan (which would encompass parts of Turkey and Iran as well). All Iraqi's, excepting a tiny minority, are Moslems. And they are tribal. They do not want freedom in the western sense. Although they may differ on the flavor, most of them want a theocratic Islamic government. Them's the facts, Jack...