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To: michael97123 who wrote (192141)	7/19/2006 1:37:42 PM
From: bentway	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

I used to be a big booster of the three state solution, and still am to a degree. Listening to Dexter Filkins talk about it on NPR clarified some things. Of the three groups, only the Kurds are geographically separated. The Sunni and the Shia are blended in most regions. So, the three state solution would require perhaps the most massive relocation of people in history, with all the problems that would bring, and support it would need. It's not the "easy" way to peace it might seem.

To: michael97123 who wrote (192141)	7/19/2006 2:07:21 PM
From: KLP	Respond to of 281500

Well said, michael...!

To: michael97123 who wrote (192141)	7/19/2006 2:57:42 PM
From: geode00	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

Iraq: Turkey ponders military action. It's just OH SO MUCH WORSE and you know that what we hear in the corporat media is a softened version of what's actually going on there. ========================== Turkey calls for action Officials say they will send troops into Iraq unless the U.S. and Iraq act against Kurds.... Turkey is facing increasing domestic pressure to act after 15 soldiers, police and guards were killed fighting the guerrillas in southeastern Turkey in the last week. “The government is really in a bind,” said Seyfi Tashan, director of the Foreign Policy Institute at Bilkent University in Ankara. “On the one hand, they don’t want things to break down with the United States. On the other hand, the public is crying for action.” Diplomats and experts cautioned the increasingly aggressive Turkish statements were likely aimed at calming public anger and pressing the United States and Iraq to act against the Turkish Kurdish guerrillas. But they also said that Turkish politicians and military officers could act if nothing is done...." kansascity.com

To: michael97123 who wrote (192141)	7/19/2006 3:01:51 PM
From: geode00	Respond to of 281500

Yep, Saddam, by now, would have written his western novels and continued to descend into old age and silliness. The sanctions and Saddam would still be making the Iraqis miserable but not anywhere as miserable as Bush has made them. Horrors! 6000 Iraqis have died in May-June alone. Iraq has less than 1/10th the population that we do so we would be losing 30,000 Americans every month if this was happening here. Now that is a real horror. The incredibly absurd thing is that Saddam kept better hold on his country than the entire US military. What does that say to the world and would-be aggressors? If you don't think that Dubyette is completely incompetent then you must believe that he is delighted by this regional chaos and is salivating over the idea of $100 bbl/oil. Pickens says $4.50/gallon stateside. Gee.