Reply #4: you can't force feed democracy

[ironman202]

an Independent Kurdish state in the north (these are the reasonable people we would be dealing with in the region. Turkey would make a stink at first, but with kurds controlling the northern oil fields and the southern states constantly bickering, the oil would flow north and the money they would make would shut the turks and the kurd up for the foreseeable future) and a sunni state in the southwest (probably a puppet state of Saudi Arabia) and a shiite state in the south east, where all their religious sites are (probably a puppet state of Iran) and maybe a loosely formed federal army overseeing all three ala the United Arab Emirates.