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And I think we have to be realistic. The Sunnis and the Shia hate each other. The Brits were so wrong to draw up the country of Iraq in the first place. The Kurds can do well on their own and we need to be honorable in making sure they are protected. If we can figure out what to do with Baghdad - having loosely autonomous states within a federal system in which each state is safe and protected makes quite a bit of sense.

This advice was given to Bush I. It was also given to Bush II. The Prevailing theory was that we needed a unified and strong Iraq to counterbalance Iran.

Remember, when he was killing Iranians,
Saddam Hussein was our pal.

37 posted on 11/09/2006 10:16:17 AM PST by Kenny Bunk (The GOP, party of the businessman, simply knows very little about the business of marketing)

This advice was given to Bush I. It was also given to Bush II. The Prevailing theory was that we needed a unified and strong Iraq to counterbalance Iran.

It is far past time to take the advice - a unified Iraq is not realistic. We need to respect the mid set of the Iraqis and NOT expect them to want to be like us.