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To: michael97123 who wrote (382218)	5/3/2008 7:22:30 AM
From: Alighieri	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1573073

apologize for the impolite words. I forgot where this started but i assume you thought shiaa/sunni in iraq and insurmountabel obstacle to any good outcome there. I was pointing to india as an example of what might also be deemed an insurmountable problem at one point. There are numerous other hot spots i could point out to you but it seems you are too intent on making iraq out to be a uniquely impossible place for sucess thus taking away any possibility that this admin at least in its goals was working on something that just might have been possible to achieve. I guess if you admit that it takes away your raison d'etre which is bush bashing. I bash too but i try to be fair. No problem. I do consider the sunni/shia divisions insurmountable in the practical sense. By practical sense, I mean the timeline of a foreign nation (US) occupying the country and working towards reconciliation. Their rift dates back 1400 years and is rooted in deeply held cultural beliefs...ask yourself what odds we would have to heal an irrational religious battle that has gone on for 14 centuries. Saddam, a sunni himself, held the shia down with brutality... India's religious problems led to the division of the counry there. After WW2, India gained independence from britain and muslims largely migrated to Pakistan, after bloody internal conflict. If you are implying that partition is a possible solution in Iraq, i would tend to agree. Al