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Iraq
U.S. report reveals plan to divide Iraq into three states: deduct parts of Kuwait & Saudi Arabia
2014-06-26
Peace is what we want and will have plus a piece of anything that you have.
WASHINGTON - Time magazine revealed in an 8-page report a plan to divide Iraq into three states. Kurdistan in the north, a Sunnis state along with Syria, and a Shia state in the south of Iraq that includes large areas of it.

The Magazine added that this new Shiite country would be heading south to Kuwait, to deduct vital areas from it and include some parts of the north-east of Saudi Arabia.
Anybody ask Kuwait and KSA about this?
Baghdad was considered within the Sunni state, while Kirkuk was according to the maps published by TIME inside the Kurdish state, but on the line of contact with the Sunni state, according to the report. The report speaks about the annexation of the Kurdish areas in Syria to a Kurdish state in addition to the inclusion of some Sunni areas of Syria's Sunni state.

It is worth mentioning that Time magazine is considered fish wrap owned byclose to the U.S. administration and express their point of view all the timemore often.

Josh Earnest, the White House mouthpiecepress spokesman, said that the decision of the Iraqi government is up to the Iraqi people who decide how it should develop its own maps, adding that Obama administration would prefer to work with Iraq's political leaders together to find a political solution.
Little late for that.
Posted by:Squinty

#8  Guarantee one thing, the Kurds are NOT taking a single step back from the areas the control now, which are well forward of most of these map lines, especially around Mosul. And the City of Kirkuk will remain Kurdish as well. If you thought digging Sunni militias and AQI from Fallujah was bad, just try rolling in on the Peshmerga in Kirkuk. There's not a military in the region with either the muscle or the guts it would take. So granis salis regarding a lot of these maps
Posted by: OldSpook   2014-06-26 23:34  

#7  Ain't it funny how the Saudis can get a President installed to cut us down to size and wind up with a worse relationship than they had before?

Ouch, Snowy Thing. Quite possibly you've over-sharpened that scalpel just a tad.
Posted by: trailing wife   2014-06-26 18:59  

#6  Agreed, hell can't we just get the lazy ass British to get back to work and redeclare the damn empire? Things are going to hell in a hand basket, they know what to do, but they've gotten lazy. Let the RN know we are no longer going east of Bermuda.
Posted by: Shipman   2014-06-26 17:16  

#5  Lets get the brits to draw a new map of the Ottoman Empire.
Posted by: irishrageboy   2014-06-26 15:37  

#4  Oh, hell no. The Saudis and Kuwaitis will draw down on US before that happens.

Ain't it funny how the Saudis can get a President installed to cut us down to size and wind up with a worse relationship than they had before?
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain   2014-06-26 14:46  

#3  Joe Biden, you magnificent bastard - they read your speech!
Posted by: Pappy   2014-06-26 14:23  

#2  And which parts of Turkey are they going to contribute to Greater Kurdistan?
It's really sad when someone who's supposed to be a professional journalist lets themselves be played this way; I suppose since 'O' got in office, they've all got used to it.
Posted by: ed in texas   2014-06-26 08:19  

#1  The Magazine added that this new Shiite country would be heading south to Kuwait, to deduct vital areas from it and include some parts of the north-east of Saudi Arabia.

Oh, hell no. The Saudis and Kuwaitis will draw down on US before that happens.

Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski   2014-06-26 08:03  

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