From: "Robert Comer" 

> Fine Bob, if you want to call the former Saddamists and foreign fighters
> killing other Iraqis to prevent democracy going forward, a civil war,
> that's your prerogative.

It's more than just them, it also other Sunni's and the Shiite's aren't
exactly not fighting either.

>In the meantime they're voting, writing a constitution, soon to vote to
>ratify, then another vote for the next round of new government
>representatives -- representatives of all the people.

That wont mean anything until there's peace, and it depends on who makes
the peace as to if it'll mean anything at all.  Like the guy from Saudi
Arabia said, there's a long way to go for that.

And should Iraq become a Sharia state in the end, that's not quite what I'd
call a democratic state and it'll be just like Iran. (and we know how well
Iran gets along with us...)

> If there were truly a civil war, the Shia would decimate the Sunni in
> short order, they're not taking that road though.

I don't think that's a given that the Shia would decimate the Sunni right
now if they could, they're pretty smart and they know we'd come down on the
hard if they tried -- the Sunni's on the other hand have little to lose.

No when we leave, then the Shia will try to eradicate the Sunni's most
likely, but the Sunni's are going to take a lot with them...

> Yet all you anti-war crew can do is carp and deride the efforts we and
> they are making; and it ain't helpful to the effort, regardless of the
> fact that that is not your intention.

I'm not anti war, just anti Iraq war, we made a big mistake going in when
we did, and I know it's not going to turn out as rosy as Bush said to begin
with, as it already is worse. I actually believed him to begin with and
that's why I'm so critical of it now, I hate playing the fool.

Oh, and btw, I don't give a whohaw if it's helpful or not, I don't blindly
follow our leaders no matter what party they belong to -- if they do
something wrong, I'm going to complain -- that's my right and duty as an
American.

- Bob Comer




"Mark"  wrote in message
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> "Robert Comer"  wrote in message
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>>> I'm just as sure he's wrong as you appear to be that he's correct. Let
>>> us hope that I'm right; I see no evidence that I'm wrong.
>>
>> Iraqi's are killing Iraqi's, what more do you need?
>
> Fine Bob, if you want to call the former Saddamists and foreign fighters
> killing other Iraqis to prevent democracy going forward, a civil war,
> that's your prerogative. In the meantime they're voting, writing a
> constitution, soon to vote to ratify, then another vote for the next round
> of new government representatives -- representatives of all the people.
>
> If there were truly a civil war, the Shia would decimate the Sunni in
> short order, they're not taking that road though. Indeed, they're being
> remarkably restrained given the oppression they've endured for decades.
> They appear to want to build a new Iraq that respects the Kurds, Sunni and
> Shia equally. Yet all you anti-war crew can do is carp and deride the
> efforts we and they are making; and it ain't helpful to the effort,
> regardless of the fact that that is not your intention.
>
>
>

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