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re: The most important matter.....

Raoul — 7/30/2004 6:32:09 PM (archived)

is: Who is going to succeed Saddam at the head of Iraq?

A shiite Ayatollah?
There's Iran right next to Iraq, how about freedom of the press and women's rights and democracy?

A Sunni secular strongman?
Return to square one; replacing Saddam by someone not unlike him.
Goodbye freedom, here come curfew, repression, etc..
Some have said it's not Saddam who made Iraq, but Iraq that made Saddam.

3 leaders: one for the Sunnis, one for the Shiites and one for the Kurds?
Knowing how much they killed each other i the past and knowing what happened to Yougoslavia after Tito died, civil war isn't far in that case.

A true democracy? In that case, no one can stay a long time in power if he's corrupted by the western businessmen who want the oil while it is in Iraqi ground. Iraqis will demand a much better (if not total) share of the oil, the US troops to get out, and even nuclear energy plants, just in case oil gets depleted.

The US soldiers should better think about those hypotheses and knowing what's going on there, now, they should figure out if even a face saving sortie for the US is possible!

Raoul

Raoul

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War requires sacrifice - Neocons want none - Art Martin - 7/29/2004 2:51:57 AM
- Reality. It's a new world and it's an old world. - SDAI-Tech1 - 8/5/2004 1:38:41 AM
  - re: Reality. It's a new world and it's an old world. - SDAI-Tech1 - 8/5/2004 9:20:31 AM
  - re: Reality. It's a new world and it's an old world. - Art Martin - 8/5/2004 5:02:19 AM
- Have you checked lately to see who is doing all the whining? - Tom Brosz - 7/29/2004 4:08:29 AM
  - re: Have you checked lately to see who is doing all the whining? - REB - 7/30/2004 3:05:37 PM
    - re: The most important matter..... - Raoul - 7/30/2004 6:32:09 PM
      - Okay, so even by your assumptions they now have one chance in four. Before, it was zero. (n/t) - Tom Brosz - 7/30/2004 10:59:29 PM
  - re: How about.... - Raoul - 7/29/2004 9:20:55 PM
    - Not victims - Tom Brosz - 7/29/2004 10:13:31 PM
      - re: A handful= very few, isn't it? (n/t) - Raoul - 7/30/2004 4:37:38 PM
        
        "Handful" was the reporter's editorial comment. - Tom Brosz - 7/30/2004 5:59:43 PM
      - Tom, do you have children? - Art Martin - 7/29/2004 10:29:29 PM
        
        Two. - Tom Brosz - 7/30/2004 12:18:48 AM
        
        Same here - REB - 7/30/2004 3:41:13 PM
    - My military service wasn't about war - Art Martin - 7/29/2004 10:03:39 PM
      - Neocons as wanna-be soldiers? - Lindy - 7/31/2004 6:31:31 PM
      - It's not just an adventure - it's a job (n/t) - Fox - 7/30/2004 3:31:26 AM
      - There are still a hell of a lot of people enlisting right now. Are they assuming that the military has nothing to do with combat, too? (n/t) - Tom Brosz - 7/30/2004 12:30:21 AM
        
        They do not understand. They listen to people like you, who don't understand. (n/t) - Bowser - 7/30/2004 3:56:07 AM
        
        Plus: - Mary Anne - 7/31/2004 3:54:43 AM
        
        Cripes. You too? - Tom Brosz - 7/31/2004 4:24:27 AM
        
        Oh, cripes yourself. - Mary Anne - 7/31/2004 4:42:59 PM
        
        re: Oh, cripes yourself. - Tom Brosz - 8/1/2004 2:31:22 AM
        
        You forget who I work with. - Mary Anne - 8/2/2004 4:05:28 AM
        
        re: You forget who I work with. - gbaikie - 8/3/2004 1:07:01 AM
        
        I never suggested the voting age be raised in the first place. - Mary Anne - 8/5/2004 12:55:22 PM
        
        Maybe both the enlistment AND the voting age should be raised. (n/t) - Tom Brosz - 8/3/2004 4:54:09 AM
        
        Remember 1971? - Fox - 8/4/2004 8:27:39 PM
        
        Surprised nobody thought of it back then. - Tom Brosz - 8/5/2004 4:56:40 AM
        
        Surprised? Shouldn't be. The phrase is "cannon fodder" - Fox - 8/6/2004 2:26:37 AM
        
        re: Maybe both the enlistment AND the voting age should be raised. - SDG - 8/3/2004 8:27:48 PM
        
        Caution - Tom Brosz - 8/3/2004 10:56:54 PM
        
        re: Caution - SDG - 8/4/2004 12:09:46 AM
        
        In other words, you think they're idiots too. - Tom Brosz - 7/30/2004 4:58:09 AM
        
        You're being silly. - Bowser - 7/30/2004 12:16:05 PM
        
        You might want to stop digging. (n/t) - Tom Brosz - 7/30/2004 5:53:58 PM
        
        And that's as childish as you've been in a long time. - Bowser - 7/31/2004 12:38:03 AM
        
        Really? - Tom Brosz - 7/31/2004 3:49:43 AM
        
        re: Ah, Really? - Raoul - 7/31/2004 5:53:59 PM
  - So Saudi Arabia is next on your hit list Tom? - Art Martin - 7/29/2004 3:25:33 PM
    - just curious - SDG - 8/3/2004 6:09:08 PM
      - re: just curious - Art Martin - 8/4/2004 12:19:27 AM
- Sure they do - just not their own. - Fox - 7/29/2004 3:52:03 AM
- Shrug your shoulders and move on if you want - Lee - 7/29/2004 3:47:09 AM
  - UFOlogy - Fox - 7/29/2004 4:18:25 AM
    - A bit from Lileks today on paranoia... - Tom Brosz - 7/29/2004 6:19:42 AM
      - Add Lileks to the list of morons... - alcaray - 7/29/2004 3:45:16 PM
        
        Do you honestly think... - Tom Brosz - 7/29/2004 4:10:42 PM
        
        I know... - alcaray - 7/29/2004 6:27:09 PM
        
        re: I know... - Tom Brosz - 7/29/2004 7:01:52 PM
      - Maybe you should marry Lileks. I could care less what the moron thinks. (n/t) - Art Martin - 7/29/2004 3:27:35 PM
    - re: UFOlogy - Tom Brosz - 7/29/2004 6:05:27 AM
    - Ah yes, the Who, paragons of the Democratic party. - Lee - 7/29/2004 4:44:40 AM
      - You, of course, prefer the "Horst Wessel Lied" - Fox - 7/30/2004 11:17:30 PM
        
        And people critcize me for obscure references. (n/t) - Lee - 7/31/2004 4:16:58 AM
        
        Rough translation is that he's calling you a Nazi again. - Tom Brosz - 8/2/2004 1:31:33 AM
        
        Learning "the lessons of history" is easier if you learn the history . . . - Fox - 8/1/2004 10:22:48 PM
        
        Or where the mistakes were made. - Lee - 8/2/2004 6:38:01 AM
        
        Okay, Lee. Getting creepy again. (n/t) - Tom Brosz - 8/3/2004 5:32:36 AM
        
        Guess I saw one too many Vincent Price movies growing up. - Lee - 8/3/2004 7:04:08 AM
        
        No, your humor tends to the ignorant neonazi side... - R.L. - 8/3/2004 9:00:56 AM
        
        And your omnipotent messianic personality is a bit of a bore. - Lee - 8/3/2004 8:00:06 PM

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