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To: SFW who wrote (61130)	12/28/2006 12:07:39 AM
From: LTK007	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 116555

i have been checking that and there is NO way to say , yes there now is SUNNI majority. Census/Demographic in Iraq is chaos and no one knows.But we can surmise much from the 1997 census. ******************************************************** What we do know is the last pre-chaos census was in 1997 and that broke down to 63% Shi'ite and 33% Sunni Muslim. The number given for 2005 seem bizarre and a possessing a lot of agenda based jiggerydoo. So to now say there is a Sunni majority when 19997 census was heavily a Shi'ite majority is pressing all credibility Like how did that change so since 1997?????? That is simple logic and as a result(and i am hated on these boards for this trait of mine to challenge--so be it))so i am challenging the Baker/Ziada population reversal---kind of miraculous, especially when given already at least 1million Iraqi Sunni are refugees in Syria and Jordan. Those that want to believe Sunni population ratio to Shi'ite population ratio MIRACULOUSLY changed since the 1997 census you are welcome too, but i am not jumping on such a non-credible statistics. O yes, also in 2005 the U.S. administration were doing all they could to pump up Sunni numbers. These specious 2005 numbers , if anything, the U.S. government would have been and probably was trying fudge IN FAVOR of the Sunni(there were charges then that in fact they were trying to present that there were more Sunni's than there actually wre, Bush and gang did NOT want a Shi'ite controlled parliament at that time--that is fact), as we were at that time doing all we could to block a Shi'ite controlled Parliament. i reject the Ziada numbers, period. But i am like that doing something real stupid like to study the last real census**(1997) and matching the ratios then with those 2005 ratios and say, o what rubbish that 2005 blithering conjectural and strongly agenda based numbers do seem.Max