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To: antiRepublicrat
I'm afraid of Iraq going from dictator to democracy, then to a repressive theocracy after a revolution.

Sadly, it's going to happen. The population imbalance between Shiites, Kurds, and Sunnis makes it practically inevitable. It looks like we will have replaced a bad dictator with an even worse theocracy, headed by another Ayatollah. The Shiites are already forming militias. The mullahs are talking peace right now, but it's only a matter of time before blood really starts spilling in the streets.
239 posted on 08/22/2005 5:17:54 PM PDT by Bush2000 (Linux -- You Get What You Pay For ... (tm)
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To: Bush2000

here ya go:

Sunnis threaten civil war as Iraq constitution deadline extended
From Catherine Philp in Baghdad
IN A dramatic midnight turnaround, Iraq’s ruling Shia pulled back from threats to force the new constitution through parliament, putting off a vote to buy more time to win over Sunni Arabs who had threatened civil war if it was passed.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,7374-1746919,00.html


240 posted on 08/22/2005 5:33:11 PM PDT by 60 Miles North
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To: Bush2000
The mullahs are talking peace right now, but it's only a matter of time before blood really starts spilling in the streets.

Then let's hope that by the time we're out of there we've trained their army well. Have you seen a link to the text yet?

248 posted on 08/23/2005 6:39:56 AM PDT by antiRepublicrat
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