What do you think will happen with the Iraq Study Group's recommendations?

A) Be pretty much ignored.
B) Republicans will start to call it a "prudent, phased withdrawl" rather than "cut and run".
C) It will be partially implements (Bush will never talk to Iran or Syria).
D) The White House will try to make it look like they were already implementing it.
E) Something else.

We'll declare victory, cut and run, and blame the consequences on Iraq and its neighbors.

We'll declare victory, cut and run, and blame the consequences on Iraq and its neighbors.

I like that, but I like mine better.

We'll divide up Iraq, into 3 proportionate states, declare victory, cut and run, and blame the consequences on Iraq and its neighbors.


And then go back to whoop on the Sunnis or the Shiites when they deserve it over the course of the next 50 years. The Kurds, so far, seem to be the most civilized of those barbarians(so they should get the best land of course).

Hope you don't mind me editing the thread title, it did not match up.

The Iraqi givernment are already following some of the recommendations knowing that Bush can't stop them so easily.

We'll divide up Iraq, into 3 proportionate states, declare victory, cut and run, and blame the consequences on Iraq and its neighbors.


And then go back to whoop on the Sunnis or the Shiites when they deserve it over the course of the next 50 years. The Kurds, so far, seem to be the most civilized of those barbarians(so they should get the best land of course).

You should have lived in colonial times. Would have suited you quite well.

Hope you don't mind me editing the thread title, it did not match up.
I forgot what I had before, so its ok. :)

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You should have lived in colonial times. Would have suited you quite well.

I absolutely think that after militarily taking over the country, that the land is un-officially ours, according to all the laws of war.

We are being rather nice guys for letting the brutes keep their desert and their oil.

All that real estate, and all that resource, for all intents and purposes, belongs to us. And we are really really a great group of people, for giving it back to them.

That would be colonial. Not balkanizing the ungrateful fvcks to make them more manageable for the future(for we all know that they will definitely need it). Besides balkanizing them now, would de facto avert a civil war. I thought that would be a great thing for all you bleeding heart knee jerks. I personally, don't really mind if they spend the next 30 years killing each other off; that is to the West's advantage, honestly. I just thought you guys wanted to avoid all that.

That just makes us much more of the white hat nice guys.

You Brits did it in your own history. Do you honestly think the world would be a better place today, if Pakistan were forced to still be a part of India?

I don't. That place would have spent the last 40 years in civil war if it were.

If by colonial, you mean, using the past to help predict the future, I am absolutely colonial.

The Iraqi givernment are already following some of the recommendations knowing that Bush can't stop them so easily.



You should have lived in colonial times. Would have suited you quite well.

It was Imperial Britain which caused this mess in the first place by squeezing three disparate factions into one nation in order to make a coutry for one of the hussein's to rule over (no relation to Saddam...the Royal Husseins, ie those who still rule Jordan).

It probably was Britain's fault at some time or other. There's no need for the US to make the same sort of mistakes again though.

No no...we're going to fix the mistake by splitting the nation back up again =D