To: Dimensio
Saddam is Sunni. What does that tell you?
To: Doohickey
The Sunnis consider themselves the "pure" standard bearers of Islam and Arab nationalism. The Shias have been viewed in Iraq as sort of heretics and as pseudo Arabs and have been excluded for decades from a role in the national government commensurate with their actual proportion of the population.
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