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An "unpure" democratic Iraq the way forward?

the_syco · 2006-12-30 17:46:26

IMO, the violence in Iraq will continue unitll: a)democracy is kicked out, and the priests are put in control or b)all the terrorists are killed Option B won't happen (as there'll always be someone), but option A may work. As an example, option B is what the American president is trying to get. Not in a "pure" sense, such…

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#32 08-01-2007 7:19am
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InFront wrote:

I doubt that very much. The Religious Shi'ites got something like 50% in the election about this time last year, and the Kurds got 20%, so I doubt the mainstream Iraqi Sunnis actually believe in their majority:rolleyes:

I'm not the person who went around interviewing people. Complain to the author, but he quotes various different people as having that opinion, to his astonishment.

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#33 08-01-2007 7:33am
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Out of curiosity, when did he interview those people?

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#34 08-01-2007 8:18am
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Between late 2003 and late 2005. The problem with relying on the election results as evidence of numerical minority is that there is a fair conception that many Sunnis simply didn't vote, out of either protest or fear.

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