Posted on 08/13/2006 2:24:06 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
We should just pull our troops up to the Kurdish area and tell the rest of Iraq to give us a call when they are finished slaughtering each other like animals.
Culling the herd.
Iran is probably funding all of this!
Unfortunately, as long as they are allowed to sell oil and spend the proceeds on arms and fomenting chaos around the globe, they will continue to do so.
The MSM is obviously giving stories like this a high profile to take attention off President Bush's stunning success in foiling last week's terror plot.
The MSM is 'staying the course'. ;-)
This should have been done shortly after Saddam's regime was removed from power. We could have solidified our presence in the North with the one group that actually does support us (mostly because everyone else hates the Kurds). We could have achieved the bases we wanted to maintain in the region which would have been a nice threat to Syria and Iran, all without being actively involved with this democracy building nonsense which was doomed to failure from minute 1.
Had we done this some Sunni strongman, no doubt one connected to Saddam's regime, would have taken over and dominated all but the Northern areas we'd control. That new regime could be allowed to exist with the understanding that it won't attack or threaten the US. I am quite sure it would have been happy to agree to those terms. The religiously fanatical Shia would have continued to be supressed which would deny Iran the allied government in Iraq which has resulted in what we have done. We would have demonstrated to enemy regimes the world over that they would be removed from power if they attack or threat the US or our allies.
There will be no peace in Iraq until either the Sunni or Shia come to dominate the other. One side has to win. At the rate we are going and with our money and support, the Shia will be strong enough soon and they will want us out at that time. We are very near to having achieved creating a far worse situation in Iraq than existed before we invaded. The Shia are largely ignorant religious fanatics who, at least in the near term, will align themselves with Iran and the likes of Hizbullah.
Don't believe the MSM lies. President Bush, VP, Cheney, and Sec Rumsfeld know what they're doing.
Indeed, the Sunni are not our friends either. If we insisted on pushing ahead with this democracy stuff for Iraq, we would have had to deal with the Sunni with an iron fist. We did not do this.
Still, the Shia of Iraq tend to be far less educated, more religiously fanatical and much more likely to align themslves with Iran.
Think out of the box!
I believe in doing what is best for America, not what is best for Iraqi Shiites or any other group. The West is in a clash of civilizations with Islam, and I am prepared to support the suppression of lots of groups if it will contribute to American/Western victory.
I don't believe the MSM, nor am I particularly convinced Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld "know what they're doing" when it comes to our Iraq policy.
It is true that in Iraq we have been under attack mostly from Sunni Muslims, but worldwide, Shiites have been very happy to attack us too.
I'll take an uneducated person who won't shoot at me over an educated psycho.
Again, if your talking about Iraq, the Shiites shoot at us too. We fought a long series of battles against the Shiite Mahdi Army (and sadly failed to kill its leader Muqtada al-Sadr).
Shiite Hizbullah, with support from Iran, has a long history of attacking the United States - from the Marine Barracks, to US Embassy in Beirut, to Khobar Towers in Saudi Arabia. We are now in the process of giving Shiite Iran a new partner in the region to further attack the West. Ahmadinejad is no doubt very pleased with what is developing in Iraq.
The Muslim world is only 10%-15% Shiite, so it stands to reason that when Muslims attack us the odds are they will be Sunni. The Shiites hate us too though, maybe even more than the Sunni.
In Iraq, I'd have preferred to keep the minority Sunni in power rather than let the fundamentalist Shia rise up and seize power.
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