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Diplomatic Relations Were Severed In 1982; Iran Invites Syria, Iraq To Summit
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Clearly, the original MidEast balance of power has been effectively destroyed by the invasion of Iraq. Because of Bush and his short-sighted, presumptuous interference and Rumsfeld's reflexive belief American military power can achieve almost any geopolitical goal, we are now forced to watch Iraq disintegrate and at least the major portion become a client-state of Ahmadinejad's Iran.
We are left only to end the horrendous Iraqi civil war by the most effective, direct, and bloodless means available, because these are Iraqi human beings being torn limb from limb to gratify the political ambitions of outsiders. Regardless of last-ditch efforts by Bush and McCain to salvage Iraq, it is clear the Sunnis and Shia are past reconciliation. The only means of securing peace is to follow the India-Pakistan model for separating bitterly opposed, but former neighbors. It is worth noting the British, who were in charge in India in 1947 at the partitioning of that country, also helped create the artificial political conglomerate now called "Iraq". Since Iraq has no internal cohesion to salvage in any settlement, the current civil war can only become worse for all concerned.- Reply to this comment
- Partitioning Iraq-- 2
If the Shia join with Iran, the Sunnis probably will enter the orbit of Syria at some point, and the Kurds will be left to fend for themselves. These poor people have been defending their traditional homeland areas against almost everybody, from the Turks to Saddam, and it looks bad for them unless some peaceful establishment of new borders can be achieved. The Kurds are the people, if you recall, who were gassed (with Bush1-supplied nerve agents) by Saddam, and who later streamed frantically through steep mountain passes trying to escape Saddam's attack helicopters after Gulf War I. (Even Reagan's Secretary of State, James Baker, was forced to make a high-profile visit to their refugee camps after hearing of extreme suffering.) There is one hope-- if Kurds can keep their northern Iraq areas, they might negotiate with Turkey to allow Kurdish brothers in South Turkey to join them, freeing Turkey from its own Kurdish-area insurrection. This is a huge humanitarian crisis in the making, with political fault lines everywhere.
Write your congressmen to ask for immediate talks to partition Iraq under UN auspices. Only that measure will extricate the US with some degree of peace-- and without reactionary American elements trying to fight Iran to the last Iraqi. It was Bush/GOP lies which brought American troops to Iraq, but more of their lies will remedy nothing. - Reply to this comment
- Thanks to PRESIDENT BUSH and the RADICAL CONSERVATIVE CHRISTIANS LIKE HIM.Secular Saddam who was the best fighter against RADICAL MUSLIMS have been removed from power by THE RADCIAL CHRISTIANS in UNITED STATES who wanted to attack Iraq for helping the second coming of CHRIST,and a RADICAL ISLAMIST named MALIKI has been brought into power on the name of DEMOCRACY,who is taking our TAX PAYED MONEY on the name of REBUILDING IRAQ ,to establish a RADICAL ISLAMIC STATE from IRAN in the EAST to LEBANON in WEST under the rule of those AYATOLLAHs who call us GREATEST SATAN.
All the NON-SENSE,BASE-LESS IDEOLOGY taught by RADICAL CHRISTIANITY have been proven FLAT WRONG by the IRAQ WAR.Jesus hasn't come back by this war but ISLAMISTs have become so powerful as they were never before.
After the thousands of years old BACKWARD CHRISTIANITY being proven wrong,first thing we AMERICANS should do is to stop TAKING OIL IN CHEAPER PRICES FROM ARABS and THEN SUPPORTING and PROTECTING THEIR THOSE ENEMIES WHO WERE BROUGHT INTO PALESTINE AFTER WWII TO OCCUPY THEIR LAND BY FORCE BECAUSE OF THE RACIST AND UNJSUT CHRISTIAN BELIEF OF HUMAN BEINGS BEING GOD-CHOSEN OR GOD-NEGLECTED ON THE BASIS OF THE RACE OR FAMILY THEY ARE BORN IN. - Reply to this comment
- It is a shame that other countries have to show this country how to do things.
Is anyone suggesting "America" could not have done this by now? Simply to sit down and talk?
Instead, subject our children to being killed by sending them in to kill the children of a foreign country?? Rather than sit down and talk? Yes. Sick, sickening and creepy. Having real value for human life does not register to the leader of this country?
Like he said, "Everyone knows there'll be "casualties" in every war." Speaking about our children being killed in the war...
They aren't children anymore, they are "casualties". Someone tell me what the difference is. - Reply to this comment
- How about that Alabama school bus accident?? - Seat belts & air bags have been needed for years now -- Republicans are against the idea - It would mean a tax hike to pay for them.
Posted by j-whitman at 01:47 PM : Nov 20, 2006
No need for a tax hike, take it back from the Congress and Senate pay raises over the past years. Instead of paying them at their new rate, pay them a really old rate and pay the difference into a fund which will pay for the safety gear on buses. Priorities the congress and senate do not get.
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- How about that Alabama school bus accident?? - Seat belts & air bags have been needed for years now -- Republicans are against the idea - It would mean a tax hike to pay for them.
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- olebd
Don't take much to make Dubya look bad, he does it all by himself. - Reply to this comment
- Olebd,, Maybe God didn't tell Bush about that when they where conversing yesterday..
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- Gee, why didn't OUR president think of this?
This is going to turn out to be some good PR for Iran unfortuneately. Especially if they succeed in getting Syria to curb the insurgents from crossing over into Iraq.
Anything to take the attention off of their nuke ambitions and make Bush look even worse. - Reply to this comment
- Bob -- Guess what ??? That was James Baker's result from his trip to Syria & Tehran.
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- Looks like our "Hearts and Minds" campaign hasn't been QUITE as successful as the Bush administration assured us it would be. There go our liberated Iraqis, off to meet with the country they were at war with for six years. Complete US failure in Iraq? Looks that way.
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- Who's putting on this little cotillion - Russia?
"And now, for our special guest speaker.....Vladimir Putin....."
Selah - Reply to this comment
- Sounds like a terrorist get-together to me. Find out where all these despots and demagogues are meeting and drop a few bunker-buster bombs on them. Iran and its new anti-Christ leader need a big lesson. To liquidate Bashar Assad would be a bonus as well.
Selah - Reply to this comment
- Just another reason to pull out all our troops. That should really be a meeting of the minds. My guess is that Israel will be on the short end of that one. Time to leave, so long, goodby, poor old Halliburton will have to try and make it with Iraq. If our leaders can't see the writing on the wall, its time to impeach and change our direction. Enough is enough.
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