Big Smoothy

^ I don't factor in the Kurds because they are semi-autonomous.

The Kurds have their own paramilitary, own organizations, speak a different language (Kurdish), don't like Arabs, and don't like people speaking Arabic in their northern area. They are ethnically different. The economy is actually going pretty good in "Kurdistan."

As for the world population being 85%. OK, 85, then.

Iraq is the issue.

It's about the superior numbers.

And the police and government control by Shiites.

(Remember that Al-Maliki's government hung Hussein on the "Id" Sunni holiday.)

A major slap in the face.

maniclion

I say we pull out and blow a huge wad all over the belly of Iraq.....




oh wait we already blew several huge wads all over and still feel no relief....

"We are like tenant farmers chopping down the fence around our house for fuel when we should be using Natures inexhaustible sources of energy — sun, wind and tide. ... I'd put my money on the sun and solar energy. What a source of power! I hope we don't have to wait until oil and coal run out before we tackle that."
Thomas Edison: In conversation with Henry Ford and Harvey Firestone