Kuwaiti PM says he fears Iraq could break up

Kurds in north....Sunni in the middle...Shiites in the south.. They would have to agree to share water , but if they truly hate each other and cannot live as one state, then calm diplomacy as three countries would be preferrable..to everyone

Maybe the other two factions, with some REAL aid, might be more interested in building up their countries, and not on war..

I firmly believe that if we had brought in bulldozers, building materials, nurses, doctors, teachers,engineers, food,medicine and crop seed instead of Halliburton/et al, the men would all be very busy about now...BUILDING, and opening markets and stores, instead of fashioning explosives out of old munitions..

Hell for the money we have wasted, we could have given every Iraqi family a thousand dollars and offered bounties in cash for old weapons..

The Kuwaitis' best geographical hope for protection in your 3-state situation, outside of what the USA is going to provide from the other side of the globe, would be some form of annexation by Saudi Arabia.

Also, go one step further than the bushies and consider what effect independent Kurdistan is going to have on NATO-Turkey relations.

Bush sr. left Saddam Hussein in charge of Iraq to avoid the exact situation you proposed. Now it becomes inevitable.

i think that a lot of the problems can be attributed to lines on maps, a great many of which were drawn by the late british empire.

Wasn't this fellow's government one of the few that was gun-ho for the whole invasion and toppling of Hussein project?

one of the, now many, regretful enablers.

The US has been occupying them since before the first Gulf war. What were they going to say to their occupiers? No, you can't do that?

Don

It seems strange that they are all suddenly surprised about the direction things are heading. We knew all along what the result of this bull shit war would be.

all the oil is either in the North or the South, the Central will be piss-poor and very unhappy

Two of the entities would be effectively landlocked, relying on rights of way through another's territory for an outlet to the ocean.

How come we are supporting this royalty? Is the prime minister worried that the fighting or the democracy will spill into Kuwait?

Have we ever ask the Iraqis what they want?

They had been 'slant drilling' from Iraqi oil wells. Saddam had asked them to stop and had even appealed to the US to get them to stop. When that didn't happen, Saddam invaded Kuwait AFTER checking with the US and letting the US know what his plans were. The US officially, through it amb., said that we would have no problem with Saddam's plans. After the invasion, the Saudis became frightened of Saddam and asked the US to intervene. The US said that we couldn't intervene unless the Saudis "officially" askef for our help. Under the lie and pretense that Saddam was amassing a mighty military along the Iraqi-Saudi border, the US entered into Desert Storm and we all know the rest of the story. The royal Kuwaitis who use the US as a mercenary army to protect them from their own people much the same as the Saudis did, fled their own country to participate in a life of "swinging" in NY and LA while our children fought their bloody war and killed tens of thousands of innocent Iraqis.
As for me, the Kuwaitis can kiss my ass!!!

I was a bit slower in responding. I agree with your post, and have written such in the past. I bet the Kuwaitis don't really relish the idea of having to deal with the various Iraqi factions who know the truth about the shenanigans.

it'll take the various factions years to find all of the slant drill sites into Iraqi oil fields.