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Educate yourself about Iraq
Dark Korvin Player in the RL game Join date: 13 Jun 2005 Posts: 769	11-05-2005 13:28 "The Other Gulf War - The British Invasion of Iraq in 1941" by Douglas Porch http://www.ccc.nps.navy.mil/rsepResources/si/dec02/middleEast.asp CBS "The Story of Iraq" http://www.cbc.ca/news/background/iraq/ "History of the Kuwait-Iraq Border Dispute" by the Kuwait Information Office http://www.kuwait-info.org/Gulf_War/history_kuwait_iraq_border_dispute.html "Iran Iraq War (1980-198" on the Global Security web site http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/war/iran-iraq.htm Wikipedia articles on three of the largest cultures in Iraq: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunni http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shi%27ite http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurds I have alot of strong feelings about the war, but what pisses me off more than anything is the lack of knowledge people have about Iraq. If you are going to make statements for or against the war, then you should also learn how we got here and where we might be headed. Iraq is not one people. We have taken it upon ourselves to fix Iraq, so we better find a way to do things better than they were done in the past. If we don't take any interest in how things got this way, there will be another war in Iraq in about 50 years most likely.
Kurgan Asturias Apologist Join date: 9 Oct 2005 Posts: 347	11-05-2005 13:43 From: Dark Korvin If we don't take any interest in how things got this way, there will be another war in Iraq in about 50 years most likely. You honestly think it will take that long?
Dark Korvin Player in the RL game Join date: 13 Jun 2005 Posts: 769	11-05-2005 14:07 From: Kurgan Asturias You honestly think it will take that long? Well, I only use the time frame of 50 years, since it took about that long between British intervention and American intervention. In my opinion we are just setting up the same dominoes in the same way, and my guess is we will act suprised when the same types of things happen.