...before we shoot each other to death.

plus the water wars breaking out in the ME.

turkey has been, since the early 1980's, and still is, diverting water from the Euphrates river for its own use,
Syria has been diverting water from the Tigris..

and the beat goes on...the beat goes on.

take all the Iraqi oil, and the country will be all democratized ... just like Amurika. Oh, wait, not so much.

The world continues to pay dearly for the incompetence and greed of C-Plus Augustus and his neocon pals.

The munition maker all stand to profit. Those who intentionally deliver death to the innocent will be out numbered and defeated some day.

We're going to get sucked in to this cesspool - again. I just know it.

it was all over. He even had a codpiece on.

We definitely will not bomb the Saudis puppet militias, for fear of an oil embargo. The Iranians now have a wide open route all the way to Damascus. I expect them to take it.

We will shore up Jordan. That will be the extent of our move.

We will now reap what we sowed in 2003.

ISIS is radical Sunni militants. The Iranians are mainly Shi'ites and their connections are with the Shi'ite-dominant government in Baghdad. That's the weird part -- we could find ourselves in a defacto alliance with Iran against the Saudis and the Gulf States.

Though it's not clear that the Saudis would want to see ISIS become an established power, either, since it could threaten their own power and the stability of the monarchy.

This situation is *very* complex, and it's not at all clear how it will shake out.

Biden: Split Iraq into 3 different regions
Updated 5/1/2006 8:28 AM ET Share on emailE-mail | Share on printPrint |

WASHINGTON (AP) — The senior Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee proposed Monday that Iraq be divided into three separate regions — Kurdish, Shiite and Sunni — with a central government in Baghdad.
In an op-ed essay in Monday's edition of The New York Times, Sen. Joseph Biden. D-Del., wrote that the idea "is to maintain a united Iraq by decentralizing it, giving each ethno-religious group ... room to run its own affairs, while leaving the central government in charge of common interests."

The new Iraqi constitution allows for establishment of self-governing regions. But that was one of the reasons the Sunnis opposed the constitution and why they demanded and won an agreement to review it this year.

Biden and co-writer Leslie H. Gelb, former president of the Council on Foreign Relations, acknowledged the opposition, and said the Sunnis "have to be given money to make their oil-poor region viable. The Constitution must be amended to guarantee Sunni areas 20% (approximately their proportion of the population) of all revenues."


http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/washington/2006-05-01-biden-iraq_x.htm


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I have a feeling this idea may come back in the news.