Why shouldn't we divide Iraq?
347842
When we are working towards peace, tolerance and stability, why should we encourage people to divide? Its the US that is fueling the clashes because they want to see a bleeding Iraq to secure oil supplies!!
818731
Its what needs to be down to secure Iraq, but it wont happen because the American people as a whole don't want to be in Iraq.  Americans see Iraq as another Vietnam, but Iraq can't be won unless we see the middle east as we once saw the wild west.
815228
Since Iraq now has its own president, the best we can do is to continue trying to help them keep it a democracy, allowing their people to vote for what THEY want, so it doesn't fall back into the hands of a terrorist regime that isn't good for them or for anyone else. Regardless of where we live, we are all inhabitants of this same earth and we are all connected. Their problems are our problems, and our problems will be theirs, as well. That's how it works. We can't close our eyes and ignore atrocities elsewhere or those atrocities will come force our recognition, as they started to do over a decade ago when we first started being attacked by terrorists.
970864
When has he ever united people?\nAmericans these days are polarized like never before because of his foreign and domestic policies, and the Iraqis are split up and most of them are scared for their lives, not having any real place to live.\nHow is he a uniter? I would say he is definitely a divider.
534742
THE IDEA IS TO KEEP THEM OUT OF THE HANDS OF COUNTRIES THAT ARE UNSTABLE.SOME COUNTRIES CHANGE LEADERSHIP FOUR X IN A TWO YEAR PERIOD.IF IRAQ HAS THEM WHO CONTROLS THEM ? SUNNIS KURDS. IT HAS TO STOP OR WE'LL BE IN W.W.III IN A HEARTBEAT.
644306
We are an amazingly divided people and need to get over our petty differences if we ever hope to do anything good on a large scale.\n\nGetting rid of Bush would also be nice.
987624
The humanism countries should be united and all together boycotted american government.I think most american do not  agree to send troops to Iraq.It is only the decision of the government of Bush's administration..American gvernment is supported by  the government ofsome other countries such as England.But the majority of mankind do not agree with american aggression.American occupied Iraq has no strong basis.Sadam Husein had no destroyable weapons.really.The American governmaent had slander Sadam government.Slandering is heated by Allah Almighty.Slander is more cruel than murder.\nBush government is very arrogant.He think that american can do everything they want.
947306
according to the wisdom of rush limbaugh, that is no big deal, iraq is in almost as good as shape as california where there are muggings and murders also.  According to george w's theory, we cant leave iraq now cause there are americans being killed over there, and if we did leave the whole country would fall into chaos and violence.  The only thing to do, is vote in someone who doesnt have ties to the oil and power and military industries, declare victory over there again, let sadaam loose since they all love him so much, and leave.
677081
The problems in the entire Middle east stem from the fact that these countries were held as possessions of the global empires for many years only to be cut loose when occupation was no longer profitable. We, the US, and our allies have exacerbated the situation with our invasion under false pretenses. The Iraqi people need to realize that the other Iraqis are not the enemies, big oil is.
866779
First of all,they DON'T want to be occupied by anybody. \n Second, you have three different cultures still trying to be the ones in control of everything.\n The Sunnis want Saddam back in power.\n The Kurds in Iraq want to unite with the Kurds in Turkey to make their own state. Do you really believe that Iraq and Turkey are going to surrender land for this? Hold your breath on that one.\n And last but not least,you have the Shiites who don't trust fellow Iraqis much less  foreigners.\n These people were used to having some a**hole standing on a balcony telling them how great they are and how they need to wipe out the Jews and American interlopers who just want their oil.\nIt's going to take another generation before you see significant change in the region.The general population got a taste of Democracy when they voted in the last election,and they seemed to enjoy having a say in their government depspite threats from indurgents.
755020
unity is impossible in iraq. The religious factions are too seperate. Unless a dictator is reintroduced there can't be peace because the people there hate each other and us. Divide them up, give them militaries to defend themselves and create a weak federal government with a strong military as a deterrent
785561
The short answer is "You don't".  These cultures will not readily embrace democracy and would need the US to force them to accept it.  The US insistence on democracy in Iraq is doomed to failure, and this will become increasingly more apparent as the years go by and the fighting against the US presence continues.  Iraq is a special case because if left without a strong dictator the country will tend to break up into separate states, much the same way Yugoslavia did.\n\nTrying to make democracy work in Iraq is like pushing a wet noodle uphill.
148410
I think there's little doubt about that.  The only reason the country was stable for so long was Saddam Hussein.  Oppresive dictatorship is a highly effective way to hold together a country that should be torn appart by different factions all vying for control.  Iraq is made up primarily of three groups: the Shi'it Muslims, the Sunni Muslims, and the Kurds.  If I remember correctly, the Sunni's have most of the money, but most of the population is Shi'it (I may have reversed the two, though), and neither group is too fond of the Kurds.  Under Saddam, you had the wealthy elite repressing the both other groups.  Now it's revenge time.  No way it's going to be stable.  Besides which anyone who's actually elected president by any kind of majority vote we're going to through out as too religious and too anti-American (guess what, they don't like us very much).
872936
Because the US government believed that democracy can be imposed by force. Iraq was a country created by the Uk at the end of WWII in order to secure the ressources in separating the different communities: Chiites, Sunnites and Kurds were forced to live together under a dictator.\nNow that the dictator is gone, they have no reason to stay together.\nKurds wants to reunite with their people in turkey and kurdistan. Iran wants theirs and chaos has came.\nNo way out - Good luck !
933520
The insertion of troops was a major mistake. The entire region under Islamic influence from Morocco to Indonesia is far less stable as a result. The U.S. is increasingly seen as dictatorial by increasing numbers of people around the world. Our economy has been vastly weakened. We do not have enough troops available should other emergencies develop. The Civil War, denied by the Bush administration but acknowledged as being fully underway by the rest of the world, deepens daily and leaves American troops there as sitting ducks. There can be no victory in Iraq. Just as the British learned after World War I, the Iraqis will not be conquered. There is too much value underground (oil) and too much division above-ground. The only result of continued occupation will be increasing governmental debt for the U.S. and more dead and injured American soldiers. Military contractors such as Halliburton are being enriched. The Bush administration has no idea of what they mean by "victory", nor does Tony Blair in England.
1068503
Preemptive war is never justifiable. We had no right to invade Iraq and have no right to stay there. Only continuing heavy handed brutality will allow us to remain. When we finally leave, Iraq will disolve into several nations based on the boundaries and ethnic differences that existed prior the British military occupation of that region in 1920. These colors don't run... the world. We have the strongest military force that has ever existed on the planet and are the biggest bullies that exist on the planet today.Propaganda fed to us by the corporate owned media make us see the illusion rather than the truth. Our foreign policy is soley based on what is deemed to promote the interests of our major corporate rulers.
803227
If you're point here is to show the dem's and the peace pansies that there's a reason our trips are still in the Iraqi theatre (read: area of operations, for you civies), it's a good one.  Funny how it's the same thing that the government has been saying that no one else wants to hear.  \n\nThe paradox with giving Saddam the death sentence is that on one side of things, justice will be done; and on the other, he will become a martyr.  One of the things the impatient American public needs to keep in mind is that in Iraq, there's little to no sense of what we consider to be nationality.  Usually you'll hear people say "I'm an American," or "I'm English/German/Italian/etc.," but there's really no sense of "I'm an Iraqi" in Iraq.  My husband is there right now and just made this observation to his parents this weekend.  They have grown up divided from each other by their background for generations, Sunnis, Shiites, Kurds, with often radically different and conflicting views of the world and each other.  You can't take a society like that and turn it into one big happy family sitting around a camp fire singing Kumbaya in only a couple of years, especially when those couple years encompass the ousting of their former government and the introduction of democracy to people who may never have known anything else in their entire lives.  "Rome wasn't built in a day," and while I don't expect Iraq to rise to anything near the glory of the height of the Roman empire, it will nonetheless take some time for things to calm down and stabalize.  \n\nAs much as I loathe the fact that my husband is deployed there for the second time, I do agree that a premature pull-out of our troops would be detrimental to the work that we and the new Iraqi government have been doing since the day we stepped foot on the ground there.