Replies to post #69923 on Tornado Alley (PROG)

[bulldzr]

Crow... where do I start. The officer's corp and the government, virtually 100% of them, were Sunni, like Saddam. Sunnis only make up less than 20%, probably 15% of the population. Shiites make up about 65%-70%, and the Kurds in the North make up the other 15-20%. The Turks would have been slaughtered by all three if they had tried to set up in the North, just as they have been in the past, several times in fact over the centuries, LOL! The Turks are hard pressed to hold on to their own territories in the border areas with a high Kurd population.

Installing the Sunni Army back in power, would have just been replacing one Sunni Dictator (Saddam) with a Sunni Military Dictatorship... not exactly what the American people signed up for when we were suckered into this total lie of a war. And the Shiite's and their supporters in Iran would never stand for it. You see, Shiites and Sunnis HATE each other, like gasoline and a match.

Bush opened a large can of worms, one which he and Cheney and Rumsfeld were not intellectually capable of understanding. I am not sure you are either, but the discussion is interesting. Too bad they didn't have this discussion in the Bush administration 7 years ago, Huh?

[sortagreen]

The only real policy threat we faced was assuring an adequate oil supply.

Since after all it is our right to invade nations and murder people to assure ourselves an oil supply?

As we become less powerful will it be OK for foreign nations to maintain standing armies in the Mississippi River and naval blockades along our coasts so as to ensure a steady flow of grains?

Or is the question silly because they have no power to do so and that's all that really matters.