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To: Steel Wolf

My point was that the MSM have been calling Sunni vs. Shiite the civil war and they need to be separated but they always fail to mention that there are other factors involved and it's not going to end with dividing the nation into 3 parts.


46 posted on 10/20/2006 7:25:29 AM PDT by tobyhill (The War on Terrorism is not for the weak.)
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To: tobyhill
they always fail to mention that there are other factors involved and it's not going to end with dividing the nation into 3 parts.

It won't last long, in the south. By and large, the population will fall in line behind the religious leaders, like al-Sadr and al-Sistani. Secular Shia leaders won't be much of a factor outside of Baghdad.

There will be infighting, but it won't be necessarily deep. They'll come to an understanding with each other, after they're free of the central government.

53 posted on 10/20/2006 7:46:24 AM PDT by Steel Wolf (As Ibn Warraq said, "There are moderate Muslims but there is no moderate Islam.")
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