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Iraq
Political Cleansing?: Ethnic Consolidation Inevitable in Iraq
2007-01-30
Posted by:Sneaze Shaiting3550

#2  Hopefully most Iraq constitutionalists will support a federal state. However, a central power has to exist for security purposes. Most Iraqis would support US/UK brokerage rather than submission to Ayatollah aggression.

Check out this interview with the Iraq President.

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Posted by: Sneaze Shaiting3550   2007-01-30 04:54  

#1  The notion that communal identity didn't exist prior to the Gulf wars (1 & 2) is like arguing Baltic or Croatia national identity didn't exist prior to the collapse of the Soviet Union, i.e. ridiculous. The reality is that it was violently supressed in Iraq as in the other places.
Posted by: phil_b   2007-01-30 01:17  

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