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Sun Dec-26-04 10:09 PM
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| 36. Give the Kurds some level of autonomy |
| -Should Iraq be partitioned? |
quaoar |
Dec-26-04 04:27 PM |
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Seems to me we have no business dividing Iraq any more than the Brits |
mcscajun |
Dec-26-04 04:32 PM |
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Maybe. But, how about the USA first? |
Tierra_y_Libertad |
Dec-26-04 04:36 PM |
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I concur. How can we divide something up when It isn't ours. |
0007 |
Dec-26-04 05:11 PM |
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Even raising this question shows an arrogant imperialistic mindset |
KlatooBNikto |
Dec-26-04 05:28 PM |
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I know what ya mean! |
0007 |
Dec-26-04 05:51 PM |
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I'm not so sure it's imperialist as much as considering one possible |
karlrschneider |
Dec-26-04 05:59 PM |
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Try growing up and living in the real world |
quaoar |
Dec-26-04 09:40 PM |
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I dont know why americans dismiss the idea of USA secession |
Chipper Chat |
Dec-26-04 06:08 PM |
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We are not a homeland since "time out of mind" for |
annabanana |
Dec-26-04 09:04 PM |
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Believe it or not the Pentagon has suggested partitioning Iraq |
illflem |
Dec-26-04 04:44 PM |
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Feb, 1, 2005 |
Disturbed |
Dec-26-04 04:57 PM |
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Iraqi Shi'ites are friends with but not under Iranian Shi'ites |
Selatius |
Dec-26-04 05:25 PM |
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Should have done the elections differently |
sandnsea |
Dec-26-04 05:07 PM |
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My Kurdish barber says that diving the country is the only solution. |
Flammable Materials |
Dec-26-04 05:08 PM |
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I expect many Kurds agree with him... |
annabanana |
Dec-26-04 09:07 PM |
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If that is what the Iraqis choose. |
Bridget Burke |
Dec-26-04 05:10 PM |
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Partition of Iraq is a long-standing goal of the Likudniks, |
Minstrel Boy |
Dec-26-04 05:24 PM |
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Thanks, MB. Your post has brought into stark relief why there was a War on |
KlatooBNikto |
Dec-26-04 05:53 PM |
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I posted this solution months ago. Kurdistan for the Kurds! |
norml |
Dec-26-04 05:30 PM |
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I have a better solution.Let us get our troops out of there first. Let |
KlatooBNikto |
Dec-26-04 05:48 PM |
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Vietnam was screwed from both sides |
Selatius |
Dec-26-04 06:06 PM |
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At least they are not getting slaughtered by bombs raining down on them |
KlatooBNikto |
Dec-26-04 06:07 PM |
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Is it Amerika's country or theirs? |
Disturbed |
Dec-26-04 06:12 PM |
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True |
Selatius |
Dec-26-04 06:19 PM |
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Partition now, or its civil war the moment we leave (NT) |
Benson |
Dec-26-04 06:14 PM |
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Read Mistrel Boy's post above.Civil War is not a possibility according |
KlatooBNikto |
Dec-26-04 07:16 PM |
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Oh? Is that right? |
quaoar |
Dec-26-04 09:50 PM |
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What Fisk details, consistently, is a war of liberation, not a civil war. |
Minstrel Boy |
Dec-26-04 09:59 PM |
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Oh really? How about this article? |
quaoar |
Dec-26-04 10:02 PM |
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Fisk wrote that in Sept 2003. Here he is in March 2004: |
Minstrel Boy |
Dec-26-04 10:32 PM |
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So then, according to Fisk... |
quaoar |
Dec-26-04 10:56 PM |
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The way I read it, his understanding of the game the US plays |
Minstrel Boy |
Dec-26-04 11:07 PM |
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And I guess Hans Blix was in on it too |
quaoar |
Dec-26-04 11:21 PM |
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yeah, whatever. |
Minstrel Boy |
Dec-26-04 11:34 PM |
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Civil war is civil war |
quaoar |
Dec-27-04 12:39 AM |
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Iraq isn't Pottery Barn. |
Minstrel Boy |
Dec-27-04 12:49 AM |
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Actually, it is a tenet of international law |
quaoar |
Dec-27-04 08:22 AM |
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International law also has something to say |
Minstrel Boy |
Dec-28-04 12:16 PM |
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American interests would NOT suffer under partition. |
Bridget Burke |
Dec-27-04 08:38 AM |
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I agree |
quaoar |
Dec-27-04 08:51 AM |
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Partition does not guarantee peace. |
Bridget Burke |
Dec-27-04 08:34 AM |
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Would it get the oil profits to Texas any faster? |
Xap |
Dec-26-04 06:34 PM |
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Should USA be partitioned? |
ckramer |
Dec-26-04 07:37 PM |
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As long as I can move from my red state to a blue state first |
norml |
Dec-28-04 11:28 AM |
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No. n/t |
Just Me |
Dec-26-04 07:39 PM |
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Whether or not Iraq should be partitioned |
WillowTree |
Dec-26-04 08:22 PM |
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Frankly , I think an international conference |
chieftain |
Dec-26-04 08:59 PM |
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Partitioning worked so well in Ireland! |
Bridget Burke |
Dec-27-04 08:40 AM |
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But as you know , |
chieftain |
Dec-27-04 10:38 AM |
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I just wonder how the sunni's and kurds are going to like living |
okieinpain |
Dec-26-04 09:29 PM |
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Give the Kurds some level of autonomy |
Doohickie |
Dec-26-04 10:09 PM |
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No. Not a solution, and not possible. And a big mistake. |
Taxloss |
Dec-28-04 12:46 PM |
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Look at how Iraq was created in 1918 as part of the Sykes-Picot agreement |
WMliberal |
Dec-28-04 08:03 PM |
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