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Disturbed Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-06-04 07:17 AM
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Civil War in Iraq?
For quite a few months I thought there would be one. Recently, I have changed my view. It seems that the Iraqi Sunnis and Shi'ites have figured out that their best interest lies in alliance with each other toward their enemies, The US and it's allies. Perhaps Bushco under estimated Iraqi savy. Now it seems that there will be a concerted effort to expell the Occupiers after July.

I feel that the following article is an interesting view.


Civil War, Carnage: Coincidence?
by Robert Fisk

"Odd, isn't it? There never has been a civil war in Iraq. I have never heard a single word of animosity between Sunnis and Shias in Iraq. Al-Qaida has never uttered a threat against Shias -- even though al-Qaida is a Sunni-only organization. Yet for weeks, the American occupation authorities have been warning us about civil war, have even produced a letter said to have been written by an al-Qaida operative, advocating a Sunni-Shia conflict. Normally sane journalists enthusiastically have taken up this theme. Civil war.

Somehow I don't believe it."

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http://www.commondreams.org/views04/0305-06.htm
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lcordero Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-06-04 07:26 AM
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1. everybody knows that it is a "divide and conquer" tactic
It's nothing but pure garbage.
A ploy for staying in Iraq longer.
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