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Originally Posted by Final Countdown
not an excuse for the clusterf--- that is the iraqi gov't... but you have to understand the historical context behind arab gov'ts. in no arabic country are the people used to having a major role in government. you can't undo hundreds of years of this sort of crap with a single brief invasion. it will always be like that.
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And it should have been completely understood by the "experts" in the bush administration, bud.
But those worthless, lying SOB's sold the ignorant American public on the absurdity that Iraq, with an ethnic population of Sunni, Shia and Kurds, who have hated each other for CENTURIES, was going to come together for a big Kumbaya democratic government when we toppled Saddam Hussein. The fact that the Shia alone were 60% of the Iraq population meant that a democratic government could be dominated by the Shia quite easily, at the expense of the Sunni and Kurds, which is now beginning to take place and should not suprise anyone.
What a crock of **** they sold the ignorant American public.
