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Ask the Americans to leave so that the Sunni thugs can subjugate and slaughter the Shiites and the Kurds again.

Don't the Shiites vastly outnumber the Sunnis? If they ally with the Kurds they should be able to deal with the Sunnis.

Yes, they outnumber the Sunnis just as the beef cattle outnumber the humans at a slaughterhouse.

Saddam's Sunni thugs made up 20% of the population but had the weapons and military training to rule the other 80% as if they were beef cattle.

Right now, the Kurds and the Shiites are not yet at the point of being able to take on the Sunni thugs militarily. They have neither the training nor the vast supply of stashed weapons that the Sunnis have.

With American military help, however, there will be fewer and fewer Sunni thugs still alive with each passing day and more and more trained Kurds and Shiites able to take them on militarily.

Once the "tipping point" is reached, the Sunnis will be history as a dominant force in Iraq.

Even then, however, the Kurds and Shiites would still have to deal with troublemaking from Sunni-majority Syria.

While not news, should the Revolutionary Party win - and they could - being asked to leave and the process of departing will open-up the middle-east like a scalpel going through butter. Tactically and strategically it would be best that could happen.

One thing would be sure, the Muzzies would get their reform 'from the inside.' But it'll be one-hell-of-a-lot sooner then any imagined. If you think the Euro's are pissed now, they'll go livid on with an unexpected/quick pullout.

For those two reasons alone....it probably won't happen.

Even then, however, the Kurds and Shiites would still have to deal with troublemaking from Sunni-majority Syria.

Who are themselves repressed by the Allawite minority B'aathists in Syria, and so may not be in such a good position to do any "foreign adventures"...

the infowarrior

Much of the Sunnis' military advantages are gone, the tanks, artillery, helicopters and that chemical weaponry they used on the Kurds. They should lose a civil war with the Shiites and Kurds, although it would be a long ugly bloodbath. It isn't going to happen anyway, this weekend's voting is to elect an assembly to draft a constitution, not actually take over full control of the country and kick us out.