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to: Jim Adams
from: John Cuccia
date: 2006-11-15 08:49:36
subject: Re: Iraq is becoming a very nasty place indeed

From: John Cuccia 

On Tue, 14 Nov 2006 22:47:51 -0500, Jim Adams  wrote:

>The Iraqi government's forces are increasingly
>identified as "Shiite" forces.

Hey, the Bushies got exactly what they wanted: a democratic Iraq.

They simply forgot to check the demographics before they toppled Saddam.

>As it stands, schisms will continue to
>grow, neighbor will attack neighbor, quasi-states with their own
>militias will solidify and the challenges of stabilizing an Iraqi state
>will escalate by an order of magnitude.

And the violence will almost certainly spread beyond Iraq:

The only question now is accountability.  Getting term-limited out of
office doesn't seem nearly sufficient punishment for the Bush-Cheney Axis
of Arrogant Utopianism's unwarranted destruction of a country.

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