oldbillthundercheif
Moderator
I'm sick of seeing these fine folks trampled upon. It's been going on for centuries... Turkey, Persia (later Iran), the British, the Shiites and the Sunnis of Iraq and the rest of the Middle East, and the United States have all oppressed, manipulated, betrayed, and generally mistreated this outstanding group of people.
Saddam gassed them and what did we do about it?
We encouraged them to revolt after the Gulf War, then opened up the no-fly-zone so that Saddam could use his attack helicopters to put down the rebellion we had promised to support. After all of this, they deserve better than they are getting and it is going to get a lot worse. One line in Bush's recent "surge" speach made me see red:
"We will work with our Turkish allies to solve the problem on the border"
That "problem" is Kurdistan and the Kurds are our only real friends in all of that damn section of the middle-east. We need to partition the country, give them the northern oil fields and sell them some serious weaponry to keep the Turks, Iranians, and the Sunnis and Shiites of the former Iraq off of their backs. Economic aid also would be good.
The House of Saud has already pledged to support the Sunni regions of Iraq in the event of a partition. Let their fat wallets rebuild the middle of the country, eh? The south could become like Kuwait in a few years with a little British guidance, and Kurdistan could become one of our allies and a regional power with US support...
Why are we so crazy about a unified Iraq? It was never historically one nation until it was colonized by the British and only stayed unified through the strongarm tactics of a world-class dictator. Let's let it split into the three nations that it should be.
What do y'all think? Would this work?
Saddam gassed them and what did we do about it?
We encouraged them to revolt after the Gulf War, then opened up the no-fly-zone so that Saddam could use his attack helicopters to put down the rebellion we had promised to support. After all of this, they deserve better than they are getting and it is going to get a lot worse. One line in Bush's recent "surge" speach made me see red:
"We will work with our Turkish allies to solve the problem on the border"
That "problem" is Kurdistan and the Kurds are our only real friends in all of that damn section of the middle-east. We need to partition the country, give them the northern oil fields and sell them some serious weaponry to keep the Turks, Iranians, and the Sunnis and Shiites of the former Iraq off of their backs. Economic aid also would be good.
The House of Saud has already pledged to support the Sunni regions of Iraq in the event of a partition. Let their fat wallets rebuild the middle of the country, eh? The south could become like Kuwait in a few years with a little British guidance, and Kurdistan could become one of our allies and a regional power with US support...
Why are we so crazy about a unified Iraq? It was never historically one nation until it was colonized by the British and only stayed unified through the strongarm tactics of a world-class dictator. Let's let it split into the three nations that it should be.
What do y'all think? Would this work?