[Baron Munchausen]

Originally posted by tesco samoa:
And I also wonder if the future of Iraq will be like Afghan. or Algeria ??

Which one is a worse future...

Somalia might be a better comparison, actually. They are all the same 'ethnicity' but still fighting among themselves. The Kurds all have hatred for the Sunni tribes who have ruled with Saddam, so they won't want to join in a single government with them. But they also have internal hatreds and will continue to fight amongst themselves. The Shiia Arabs in the south of Iraq are the same. Their internal rivalries will become apparent soon after Saddam is really gone. Given the number of weapons hidden all over the country their will be a dozen new internal fractures within months of the fall of Baghdad. That date is not as close as the war planners had been claiming, though. They will have the city surrounded soon, and the arrival of the heavy armor division in a week or two will make it a tstorng seieg, but Saddamhas been planning for his and stored up lots of supplies. It might be next spring before the city actually falls -- if GWB can keep his **** together that long and maintain the military expedition.

I might be glad that GWB has obviously doomed himself politically, but it's going to be a horribly high price to pay to get the neo-fascists out of office.