Iraq: Has the USA put the Shiites in the driver's seat?
963528
The Sunnis were the best Allies of the US insofar,\nSaudi Arabia and all gulf arab states are sunnis,\nPak is sunni,\nIran is shite,\nHizbollah is shite,\nNow the US has a very Confused political entity in the form of Occupiers in Iraq,\nIf they fight the Sunnis, Thier support will slowly erode in the next 10 years from the mahority muslim countries,\nand Iraq will be even more uncontrollable as they will be taking orders from Iran\nIf they Fight the shites, Moqtada Al Sadr will roast thier white A s s\nThe best Formula is to release Saddam Hussain and make it look like an escape,\nThat will dampen the shite spirits and organise the sunnis,\nThe rest is left to Saddam\nLet him do what he was good at, Keeping the country united and under control,\nThe Khurds dont love the US\nThe Shites dont love America,\nThe best bet is to release Saddam and leave Iraq in the next 3 days after his escape.
944339
What would happen?  The civil war and mass killings would happen sooner instead of later, and the US and Iraqis being killed daily would not be.\n\nYou don't go into a country until you're invited, and the US wasn't.  Even *with* Saddam in charge, the Iraqis never wanted the US to invade.  \n\nIt's the same story in Iran: the democratic forces don't want the US to invade, they want the US to fluck off and stop harassing their country.  (It WAS the US, after all that overthrew the Iranian DEMOCRACY in 1953 to impose the Shah....)\n\n\n.
535501
To be honest, I don't want the Shia to have a single seat in the Iraqi government, but you're right.  The only way for a democracy of any form to flurish is to have a true representation of the people.  If the Shia won seats, then they should have their elected representative in that seat.  It's what the people want if they voted for it.  \nThe Kurds deserve to be left alone however.  They have been through far too much for one group of people.  It's time for peace in the lives of the Kurds.  It's time for peace for the people of Iraq.
864630
Totally agree.  Ever since oil was discovered in the Middle East, the most powerful men and nations on the earth have lusted over the area.  They have bribed leaders, propped up dictators like Saddam, manipulated and cajoled the nations and the people endlessly.  The Saudi  Prince, spiritual leader of the Islamic World, seems to have his own agenda along with all the other players, and this  all  combines to make the mess in Iraq we see today.  That the people of Iraq could be free to chose their own destiny is almost a laughable concept, as they haven't ever been free, and it doesn't look like anyone will leave them alone long enough to figure it out for themselves, if indeed that is what we are really doing there.
841781
Yes, the United States of America and her allies must all pitch in and help rebuild Iraq. When Saddam Hussein first came into power, he was Mr. Nice Guy but once the 1980's came around, he went from being Mr. Nice Guy to becoming Mr. Not So Nice Guy and started to build palaces for himself and had his people live in ruins. Not that Hussein is no longer the President, Iraq is moving everyday towards democracy. If you want to hear the Truh of the Democracy taken shape in Iraq, I recommend that you watch a show titled The 700 Club.
763225
the current situation in Iraq
967334
YES NOW THEY HANDOVER THE POWER TO THE PEOPLE OF IRAQ.  BUT UNO MUST WATCH THAT ANY TERRORIST GROUP MAY NOT TAKE POWER OF THE IRAQ.  FOR THIS OTHER COUNTRY'S ARMY CONTROL UNDER THE BANNER OF UNI NOT UNDER THE BANNER OF USA.
1142801
there's nothing we can do about iraq. everything that's going on there and everywhere else was meant to happen. the u.s is in iraq now so that they can set up camp for when they go and start picking on iran and later get into what we know as armageddon. read revelations in the bible, it will tell you all you need to know...
751527
Arcane are you  crazy?  Their are a lot more modernized middle eastern countries that Iraq.  I have been to a couple different countries and I saw nothing that even Iraq.  You need to know what you are talking about before you start saying stuff like that.  One other thing I want to tell you about.  If the Iraqis didn't want us there all they had to do is run us out,  but they are going through what we did  in our civil war, Losing life's, homes, family and what not they know that it is a necessary evil but most of them are ready for a change.  There have been more business open up in the last year than any other year in their history.  Soon as they can show that their military is able and willing we will be out but no sooner.  It would be a disgrace to the US and its people if we left now and let total hell rain down upon them.
782358
Neither one.They will send more troops but less funding and will piss even more people off by utterly disrespecting the new Iraqi government forcing stronger ties between it and Al Sadr.
541874
iraq has a chance if they let their government run the country without interference fron the religious zealots...by the way..we are not trying to impose democracy on them, we are trying to bring freedom from a tyrant to them..if you think about it..we would have allready been out of there if it wasnt for the fascist terrorists the liberals love making excuses for and trying to appease\niraq has a better educated class of people than most middle east countries and intelligence is a prerequisite for wanting to be free...its only when the religious leaders and civilian leaders and family leaders work in concert to keep their citizens oppressed and out of the loop of information that a society stays behind the world that is succeeding...\nif iraq wqants to come into the 21st century and use information the right way instead of stifling it, then it will eventually become successful
128807
Not for years.  The governments of too many surrounding countries have far too much to loose if Iraq becomes a stable democratic state so they will continue to fund and encourage the "insurgents".  However, the violence should lessen as the new government gets organized and the USA starts pulling out.
1085530
It may be viewed as a Crusade, although the battle is not in the Holy Land (aka Jerusalem). \n\nLest I mistake your question for purely rhetorical value, our involvement in Iraq is based upon:\n\n1. The assumption that Iraq had WMDs\n2. The assumption that Saddam Hussein was funding anti-American and anti-Israeli terrorism\n3. The assumption that Saddam posed a threat to stability in the region\n4. The belief that Saddam had committed crimes against humanity\n\nThere has been no evidence found of the first assumption, although credible evidence indicates that the U.S. provided chemical weapons to Iraq during its war against Iran, the latter of which was considered an enemy to the U.S.\n\nThere has been little evidence found of the second assumption, which makes sense given that Saddam was a secular person of Sunni descent, and the radical theology underpinning Al-Qaeda has far more support among Shi'ites than Sunnis (although terrorists represent only a small, radical fringe of Islam, and there are terrorist groups with chiefly Sunni members). The terrorist attacks on American troops are mostly opportunistic by pre-existing groups or precipitated by new groups that have sprung up in response to the invasion.\n\nThe third assumption is debatably true. Saddam's armies invaded Kuwait in 1991 and fired missiles into Israel in 1992. \n\nThe fourth assumption (I labeled it a belief) has strong evidence behind it, and currently forms the basis of the ongoing trial.\n\nThe motivation for the United States has nothing to do with religion, although it is an unfortunate coincidence that a mostly-Christian nation has invaded two mostly-Islamic nations, as this adds fuel to the fire of radical beliefs that hold that the United States is the enemy of Islam.\n\nThe next president elected will be a Democrat (since the GOP is out of political capital at this point), and will probably close out the current operations (since there's little public support behind them). Hopefully, whoever is in office next will be able to gain more credibility and provide a more effective diplomacy so the military solution is not resorted to.
328970
It all comes down to oil,if you want a bottom line.\nMost of the world's oil comes from the Middle East,which\nhas placed the West at a disadvantage for decades.\nAn American-supported Iraqi government would do much to shift the balance of power in the region in theory.\nIn practice maybe it'll turn out the U.S. should just have kept it's soldiers out of that part of the world,if this whole thing backfires.
255658
ALL HELL WILL BREAK LOOSE SOON... iraq is on the verge of all out civil war: shiite muslims fighting sunnis muslims within the country. situation there would be best assessed by US army intel operating within iraq.\n\nI feel it would be irresponsible, even catastrophic if US troops were to be pulled out now.
455332
in my eyes, we are in Iraq because of the terorists. everyday suicide bombers kill two or three people and wound 2 times as more. Also US is there to make Iraq a Democratic Government and make it an Allie , then in future wars Iraq is going to help USA.
118212
Not at present as;\n\nA) IRAQ will now provide much of the oil the USA wants, at a price it likes. Therefore it can afford some disruption to oil supplies from Saudia Arabia - it won't cause panic buying in the US.\n\nB) The are easier targets which, if invaded/attacked, will restore US confidence in its armed forces and help get a Republican re-elected to the White House.\n\nNope - no attack on IRAN in the near future.