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Originally posted by Porsche-O-Phile
Excellent analysis. I was wondering what all the shouting was in the background (the only videos I've seen have terrible quality, both in terms of audio and video).

Then again, the way I see it the Sunnis and Shiites both are exceedingly violent and self-righteous groups. They've been in a virtual war with one another for centuries and to think that they're going to just be all hugs & kisses now that we're involved is pretty silly.

The other thing to consider is the more they kill one another the less they go after the U.S. and our interests. If they want to inflame and slaughter one another, I say let 'em. Nothing seems to make these people happier than killing and violence anyway so you can call it part of giving them what they want.

Hussein was right - sectarian violence IS tearing Iraq apart. The only thing that held these groups together was (under him) the iron fist of a despot and (under us) a common enemy. Once that vanishes in whole or part, the thing explodes. Exactly what's happening now. IMHO Iraq SHOULDN'T be a united country. What's gained (other than some VERY limited influence over foreign oil prices) by forcing these groups to live under the same banner? Really, who cares? They're going to fight & kill one another anyway, so let's all cut the crap and stop pretending. The idea that we could go marching in there and all of a sudden all these poor oppressed people would just embrace one another and us as their saviors was a delusional wet-dream fantasy on the part of Bush and his neocon goose-stepping brainwashed buffoon followers. We've paid for it by having our international credibility shattered and we WILL pay for it by having the Arab world look at us as oppressors, imperialists, aggressors and idiots - all at the same time for decades to come.

"Mission Accomplished".

Wow...another Saddam love fest. I feel your pain, man...not. Let me interrupt your wake with a couple of actual facts. Muhammad Bakr al-Sadr founded the Dawa Party. It is the party of the current prime minister of Iraq. Muhammad Bakr al-Sadr was Muqtada's uncle, was one of the most revered Shia ayatollahs. He was executed by Saddam in 1980. The insult to Saddam to be executed the same way and the blood line/party inheriting much of Saddam's power is obvious. Or to simplify things for the "its all Bush's fault" crowd...payback is a *****...or better...
"Mission Accomplished."