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If contained to what is now Iraq, that wouldn't be a problem. But the Kurds want a state that would include parts of Turkey and Iran. That would be way to destabalizing.
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by Paleo on Thu Sep 21, 2006 at 10:52:10 AM PDT
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They want Kirkuk. Kirkuk has a large Arab population that doesn't want to be "ethnically cleansed" from their homeland.
But okay, let's take the position of partitioning Iraq into three. Well, since the Sunnis get no oil in that situation they have no choice but to resort to full-on civil war.
But with 6600 dead in the last two months, maybe that wouldn't be a big change.
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by brainiacamor on Thu Sep 21, 2006 at 11:05:15 AM PDT
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