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To: Sam who wrote (241661)	9/12/2007 3:51:54 PM
From: michael97123	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Bravo Sam. You said what i said earlier in far clearer fashion. Actually with the sunnis it is the enemy of my enemy scenario but in this case it is al quaeda not the US left out in the cold. I think this is what US policy is now although Bush cant say it (yet). The unified shiaa led central govt with militias intact and iran as chief backer will stay in place. It will be a long time before shiaa come back to the US to ask us for help with bossy persians. Probably wont happen but i expect friction in that relationship as well and a possible civil war between the two major militias. As far as the repatriation of refugees, a nice shot across chris' bow if i do say so myself. Kurds of course are a no-brainer for us to support but they must bring their turkish and iranian kursish terrorists under control.

To: Sam who wrote (241661)	9/12/2007 4:07:16 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Respond to of 281500

And if that does transpire, I wonder if all the people who talk about repatriating Palestineans in Israel will also talk about repatriating the several million Sunnis or Shias who were displaced in this war. There are more displaced people now than there were in '48. I can answer that one, it's easy: of course not. Repatriating potentially hostile people to live next to you is something that is only asked of the Israelis, nobody else. And why? Easy again: because moral arguments might possibly sway the Israelis, but haven't the least hope with anybody else. So nobody bothers to try. You have to realize that a good bit of the ethnic cleansing going on in Iraq (though not most) is undoing the ethnic cleansing that Saddam mandated in certain areas. There's a long history of this stuff, and people only come back when their side is on top again. BTW, there were lots more displaced people back in 1948. I think you have forgotten the partition of India, which displaced about 14 million people. That lays Iraq in the shade, and certainly Palestine too, where only about 2 million people were affected, and that's if you count all the Jewish Holocaust survivors and the Jews kicked out of the Arab lands, as well as the Arab refugees.