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The Sunni-Shiite Divide Explained In 100 Seconds
The battle between Islam's two major branches began over 1400 years ago when the Islamic prophet Mohammad died and the two sides clashed over who should succeed him. This centuries old 'war' is once again threatening Iraq's (and indeed the Middle East - and thus the world's) stability. The Washington Post's senior national security correspondent Karen DeYoung explains in 100 seconds just how we got here...
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People in general are tribal. They like being with people like themselves in most cases. My guess is a lot of the young men in Iran have seen innocent people shot in the back of the head and they want to stop it and want revenge. This is a pretty normal reaction.
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Wild Donkeys then. Wild Donkeys now. Nothing has changed.
Here comes the justification for war;
http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/iraq-turmoil/iraq-militants-plan-attack...
What is it with this fucking English weather ?
One day it's sunni , the next day it's shiite .
Background on GWB's war when gas was $1.20 a gallon:
"The war on Iraq: Conceived in Israel," February 2003
War on Iraq: Not oil but Israel October 22, 2004
A closer look: The Israeli origins of Bush II's war. April 24, 2005
CIA trained Saddam kept the lid on this.
The Shah was an Imperialist tool.
The Saudi's are, well, The Saudi's. Working both sides of the street.
Oil greater than History.
After World War I, the British facilitated the coming to power of the Saud regime in the former Hejaz and Nejd provinces of the Ottoman Empire. The Sauds established Wahhabism as the state religion of the new Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and, like the Kemalist Dönmeh in Turkey, began to move against other Islamic beliefs and sects, including the Sunnis and Shi’as. The Wahhabi Sauds accomplished what the Kemalist Dönmeh were able to achieve in Turkey: a fractured Middle East that was ripe for Western imperialistic designs and laid the groundwork for the creation of the Zionist state of Israel.
It seems as though these two sides have been torturing and killing eachother for the last 1000 years and will be killing eachother for the next 1000 without any tangible change in the environment. The carnage may just have to play out and hopefully they will all kill eachother. This is just like the Hatfields and McCoys...two groups of rednecks killing picking each other off for accumulated, perceived slights. Who will care when they are all dead. Nobody.
Maybe we should partner up with Russian and China and at least split the oil in thirds. Americans can all get behind cheap gas!
ya lost me at "The Washington Post's senior national security correspondent"
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