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I don't know if you noticed but the day after we, as a
nation, celebrated the end of the Iraq War, multiple explosions went off in Baghdad
The reasons for the attacks are the reasons we have been
predicting since the ill fated and ill advised War on Iraq began a long, long
nine (9) years ago with over 4,000 American deaths and countless thousands
wounded; sectarian violence.
I guess what continues to piss me off is the fact that we
knew this would happen or at least people with a brain did (maybe not Bush,
Cheney or their fellow NeoCons).
By "sectarian violence" we mean specific groups
waging war on other groups to gain control over all the groups.
Since Iraq was a "created" country, i.e. a country
created by drawing a geographic outline on the map (by the British) and
compelling everyone within that outline as belonging to this created country.
These groups include Muslim Shiites and Muslim Sunni which
practice Islam but hate each other to the point of being willing to massacre
each other. We also throw in the Kurds, who are nominally Muslim but ethnically
separate from the other two groups. We can now add a "secularist"
element which represents people that do not want to live under a theocracy
(religious dictatorship) and this group, believe it or not, is growing.
Add to this melting pot al-Qaeda which is Sunni Muslim but a
terrorist organization willing to destroy everyone to gain dominance or to just
destroy everything for the hell of it, which is what they like to do.
Add also Iran
which is Shiite and would like to have Iraq
as a partner or better yet, a puppet that Iran
A plan that was proposed years ago and which I favored was
to split the country into three (3) generally autonomous areas joined as a
federation: Sunni, Shiite and Kurd. The only duty of the federation was to
divide all oil revenues on a per-capita basis since most of the oil is either
in the Kurd area or the southern Sunni area. This was a neat and doable plan
that was rejected by the Bush Administration almost immediately and so we will
now have civil war.
The tragedy here, caused by utter stupidity and arrogance on
our part, is that over 4,000 American soldiers died for absolutely nothing and
countless thousands of Iraqis died for nothing also BUT the greater tragedy is
that countless thousands of Iraqis will die in the near future, also for
nothing.
If you want to talk money and I mean billions if not
trillions that was wasted and helped bring on our recession/depression, well
just remember that yes, our military has left Iraq but a huge diplomatic
delegation will stay permanently and will be protected by private security
forces which will cost us billions if not trillions into the future.
The Republicans, who started this war and who authorized
Bush to blow billions with no accountability, will now blame Obama for the
approaching civil war in Iraq
History will never forget what happened here and what will
happen; I hope Bush and his NeoCons will be labeled for centuries to come, as
the total morons that brought this much death and suffering to the world to
feed their own arrogance and idiotic plans. Hopefully this will be a lesson for
future generations that will not want to repeat the mistakes of history.
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