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To: Dayuhan who wrote (217090)	2/9/2007 1:08:54 AM
From: bentway	Respond to of 281500

Ilaine is an apologist for the current moron in charge. She just can't quit him!

To: Dayuhan who wrote (217090)	2/9/2007 10:46:17 AM
From: Sam	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

And you thought that if we removed Saddam they would all get along... because they are all Muslim?.... It might have been more obvious if it had been scrawled across the sky in letters of fire, but only barely. No, it wouldn't have been more obvious. You have to look for something other than your own pecuniary interests in order to see something scrawled across the sky. Perhaps someone will write a book titled (or at least with a chapter entitled) "Spell of Chalabi."

To: Dayuhan who wrote (217090)	2/9/2007 11:37:34 AM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

And you thought that if we removed Saddam they would all get along... because they are all Muslim? I don't think that Sunni vs. Shia is an automatic pipeline to doom. Ordinary Sunnis and Shias and even Kurds have been getting along, all over the Islamic world, more or less, for more than 1,000 years. I think it's religious prejudice to say that they cannot get along now. Unless something has changed in the world of Islam and it's impossible for them to get along in the future. It's reasonable to predict that as the Ottoman empire withered away, and as the British empire withered away, and as the Soviet empire withered away, that unnatural boundaries drawn on a map would become less meaningful to the people who live there. But to say that it's inevitable that due to religious differences they therefore must blow up schools, and pet markets full of children, and torture each other with electric drills, is religious prejudice, pure and simple. But I see you expect the worst from people, and when you expect the worst, you are rarely disappointed.