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To: Keith Feral who wrote (167785)7/30/2005 4:10:47 PM
From: geode00  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 281500
 
Liberal socioeconomic-political systems and democracy are not the same thing and are not even connected at the hip.

We didn't go to help the Shiites, we went to get the Shiites to help us get the oil and put military bases in Iraq. That they prefer to thumb their collective noses at us and help the Iranians is their free choice. It is apparently our free choice to foot the bill.

At any rate, we're shoving the Sunnis back in - note that both the Iraqis and the US are ignoring the results of the elections by pushing the Sunnis back in. Is this going to be a three state solution with the Sunnis out of luck on oil revenues?

Kurds: oil. Shiites: oil. Sunnis: sand.



To: Keith Feral who wrote (167785)7/30/2005 6:57:28 PM
From: bentway  Respond to of 281500
 
The Baathists might have been mostly Sunni, but along with Saddam they were more secular than most political parties in the ME. I'm not defending them, just pointing out that they were less religiously oriented and more religiously tolerant than most of the players left in Iraq. They were more concerned with power and control than religious purity.


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