Richard Holbrooke also pointed out that the insane policy of arming Sunnis, who earlier had been killing our boys and girls, was just a temporary band-aid. As soon as they get al-queda in Iraq out of their area they will go back to killing US soldiers and the Shiites of Iraq and will never be part of a Shiite controlled central government. The Kurds haven't been part of a unified central government since the early 1990s. The Kurds have already cut an oil deal with the Hunt firm of Texas--one of W's cronies no less, with no involvement from Baghdad. They aren't interested in anything other than a federal government with a weak central government.
Bro 43 and the Iraq Study Group are against a federation for Iraq. Why? Because, for among other reason, W is afraid that other companies like Hunt won't get oil deals unless there is a strong central government. Maybe it is because the Iraq constitution has already signified that they want a loose federation, and the ethnic violence and displacement of Iraqis, both within Iraq and in other countries in the region signifies that these people who have been killing each other since before the Ottoman Empire, shouldn't be forced to have a strong central government. Maybe W just wants to push them to do something they can't possibly do so the next president will be up to eyes in the death and mayhem that W has bequeathed to the US.
War is peace and also votes. Maybe W's only motivation is to continue sucking off red state morons who are attached to the idea of killing others for the simple power that it shows the US possesses. Who knows for sure? Few are as psychological maladjusted as those who kill others-so how can we explain the actions of those who, we can make pretty phrase about, but can't really comprehend?
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