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This Day In Iraqi History - Dec 21 Saddam paid Carlos the Jackal and PFLP to kill Saudi and Iranian oil ministers at OPEC meeting for supporting Kurdish revolt Ministers were taken prisoners but then released
1956 Communist uprising in Al-Hay put down and leaders executed ( Musings On Iraq review The Modern History of Iraq )...
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Dr. Michael Izady of Columbia’s School of International and Public Affairs recently gave an interview to the Swiss-based International Relat... -
Professor Nadje Al-Ali is a professor of gender studies at SOAS, University of London. She has authored several books and articles... -
Recent media reports put into question the future of the U.S.-organized Sons of Iraq (SOI) program. Currently there are approximately 103,00...
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I can why he has so many journalism awards. He puts forth the common narrative "It is Bush's" fault. No mention of the WSJ report of ISIS taking control of Saddam's Chem Warfare plant (what chemical weapons?) or another report of ISIS taking control of a Iraqi university's cache of yellow cake uranium (what WMDs?). Our biggest mistake after the invasion was listening to Rumsfeld apply the same faulty agenda in Iraq as he tried in Viet Nam. Iraq will always be sectarian and have the violence that it goes with (Genesis, Ishmael, God's promise of constant conflict in Ishmael's kingdoms). The only solution is Joe Biden's (can't believe he came up with it though) three state -- as in three states, one united Iraq -- solution. Each state with its sectarian nature, a governor, and its own form of parliamentary government, and equal number of seats in the Iraqi parliament, and rotating positions in the Iraqi President's cabinet. But no external force present now profits from such an arrangement and our government shows no interest in fixing their screw-up.
Much of central and northern Iraq is mixed. That includes many of its largest cities. Partition would be an ugly business only achieved through massive ethnosectarian cleansing. You wouldn't have any more stability after it was over either.
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