[Darkwolf377]

Quagmire! Oh, wait...

[Lunatic Fringe]

Sunnis have generally opposed the plan, on grounds that it would leave them only with vast swaths of desert in the country's middle, devoid of the oil reserves in the other regions.

I say, turn lemons into lemonade! I'm sure there is a need for pipelines to transport the oil produced in the north and south.

[stainlessbanner]

bttt

[pankot]

Iraq was cobbled together by idiot diplomats (just like Yugoslavia) from 3 different regions. Only a murderous dictator (like Tito, Sadaam) could hold such an abortion together. The solutions is to slice it up into 3 autonomous regions: Kurd, Sunni, and Shia. Diplomats are idiots who by default gave us 9/11; Like Madam Alldumb, Sandy Burglar, and the Toon. Watch the ABC movie closely and you'll see the truth they tried to censor.

[Chicos_Bail_Bonds]

Joe Biden won't be happy.

[ChessExpert]

"Federalism Plan Dead, Says Iraqi Official"

Is he talking about the United States?

[submarinerswife]

Joe Biden is deeply saddened.

[theBuckwheat]

But this was the Great Hope of the Democrats, the US Democrats, who strangely thought they would 'advance' democracy for forcing Iraq to change the constiution that the entire country endorsed.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Captain's Quarters weigns in on this and says Sistani should get some credit:

September 13, 2006
Sistani Kills Federalism Plan

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In a move that belies earlier reports that Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani had withdrawn from Iraqi politics, the widely respected Shi'ite imam scotched a plan by Shi'ite political groups to transform Iraq into a loosely-knit federation of three autonomous states. The Shi'ite-controlled legislature will table the proposal indefinitely, and the third-ranking official in the government pronounced the plan dead: