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Politics : GOPwinger Lies/Distortions/Omissions/Perversions of Truth -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: one_less who wrote (103835)	7/24/2007 8:27:25 PM
From: Steve Dietrich	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 173976

The popular vote of the people doesn't support your claim, A vote under foreign occupation doesn't mean anything. We were an occupying power and we made the rules. That's not a freely elected government. It's better than a dictatorship, but it's not legitimate and it can't stand on its own. The people of Iraq don't support the Maliki government. They want to separate, just like they wanted to under Saddam. Even if you sectioned off the Kurds in Northern Iraq the region they want involves an area of Turkey much greater than there region in Northern Iraq. That's why the Turkish army regularly crosses the border and exterminates as many as they can get to. This is another reason the invasion was foolish (unleashing the kurd/Turkey problem). But the Kurds do want to be an autonomous nation, unlike the Iraqis. The other point is true. It would collapse from pressure and attacks from extremists if we abandon the Iraqi people now. Not from extremists, from within. Virtually none of the parties that make up the parliament would support the Maliki government if we left. They're just operating within the existing framework (which we dictated by force) biding their time. Not everyone is supporting its collapse like you and the other extremists. It's called realism. You should try it sometime... SD