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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: JDN who wrote (760088)	3/10/2007 3:24:24 PM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	Respond to of 769670

Re: "...perhaps we ought to merely side FULLY with the SHIA and of course the KURDS and the hell with the Sunni's. Rather then fight the Shia death squads we employ them as mercenaries in the armed service (such as the Romans used to do) and wipe out the Sunni's once and for all. At least we would be using 80% of the population as allies, and as I understand it most of the IED's come from the SUNNI's. If we were to do this we would have to be ASSURED somehow that once it was over Iraq would be OUR ALLY and not a minion of IRAN." I agree that picking ONE SIDE to support, and ONE SIDE to fight would probably represent better tactics then our current muddled 'strategy' of standing in the middle of the civil war, ineffectually shifting back and forth and not materially affecting the end game. (That seems to be about the worst of possible options for our involvement.)