October 1, 2007- More Manageable

   When America first went into Iraq in 2004, they swore that they were not going there to carve the country up in any, either by ethnic/religious lines or by looting it blind either. President Bush said that he was sending the troops in for themost humanitarian of reasons, to help the por beleagured Iraqi people that suffered so under Saddam get the life that they deserved. There was no preference at all given to any particular types of Iraqis, no group over the others, Bush said that America was going in there for the sake of all the Iraqis.  He was told that if America went in there, that it could very well set all kinds of ancient ethnic andf racial tensions way over the top, but Bush thought that this was just anti-war hysteria, he looked at Iraq and saw  all these various ethnic and racial grouyps living together and felt that America coiuld achieve the same thing, after all, Saddam was evil and he did it, so why not the great shining knight America? However, these people that warned of an impending calamity in Iraq told Bush that the various groups in Iraq did not live together because they liked one another, they did so because Saddam used the most ruthless and hardcore of tactics to keep it that way. He forced the people to live as one Iraqi nation instead of their  backgrounds, but even that did not sway Bush, as nothing does once God speaks to him directly. What he envisioned for Iraq was something along the lines of America, a place where all sorts of people of differing ethnic and religious backgrounds live in the same cities and such, one of the benefits of that freedom that he was determined to bring to the Iraqi people. As always, Bush believed that the power of America was so fucking strong that it could conquer anything , even millennia of hatreds and distrusts between the people in Iraq. The way that he looked at it was  that these poor people has never, ever known freedom in their history, they were always ruled by one type of despot or another that used these divisions among them to their advantage and exploited it  and kept everyone under their servitude. Once they were truly free, they'd forget all those ancient hatreds and grudges and go about siezing the myriad opportunities that America had brought them. That was the plan going in circa 2004 and that was the plan that Washington implemented once they got it. There were all those rounds of elections to this and that, and the only disqualifications were if you either belonged to the Ba'ath party or were a Muslim Holy Man, but other than that, everyone was free to run, any religion or race. There were people of all religions and races winning shit in Iraq, even some women, so the vision that Bush got from God for the country seemed to be working out pretty good. It seemed that the people of Iraq were now used to living and working together, whether or not force was used to make them do so and were going to continue to do so under American rule. Maybe the old hatreds and feuds and grudges had been forgotten finally and the peopole were really ready to live and work together as one. Washington was looking to govern the country as one entity as Saddam did, they built a central base in Baghdad like he did and planned to run the show from there like he did too. There seemed to be no need to partition the country along any ethnic or religious lines at all, that all that Ameriuca had to do was to put downj th einsurgency once and for  all and then they'd be able to build the nation that they wanted there  and make the whole  war thing look worthwhile. A lot was at stake here, as governing  Iraq as one like Saddam did was a big goal for Washingtron, and a major building block of the new, American made Iraq.

   But then things started going downhil in a fucking hurry.  What started out as a war between America and the insurgents/freedom fighters or whatever you want to call them quickly because a multi-sided conflict with foes coming out from everywhere. It did not take that long for those ancient hatreds to gain a whole new meaning among a new generation, ans they started right up again where they had left off in previous generations. The Sunni Muslims took up arms against the Shi'ite Muslims and the Kurds took up arms againt them both, and both of them took up arms against the Kurds, and the fight was on again big-time, this time with modern methods. These factions started killing one another with as much gusto as they used to do and for the same old reasons as well. What started as a war against occupiers became a Civil War and has continued to get worse and worse alonmg those lines. The main reason that iraq is such a hellbroth of chaos right now is not because of what America is doing, but because everyone that has any kind of grudge against anyone else there has taken up arms  and is looking to settle a score or three. That makes it impossible for America to get any kind of security or safety in the country at all because at first, they knew who they were fighting against  and that was only one enemy, but now, there are infinite enemies and the number just keeps growing, so they do not know which way to turn now. The three main combatants that everyone warned Bush about, the Sunnis, Shi'ites and Kurds are all killing one another with no end in sight. In fact, that conflict has become the main event in Iraq, the American/insurgent battle gets second billing now, so it is seriously undermining the American efforts. A main problem is that America has no idea who they could side with in all of this, because the loyalties and allegiances shift from day to day and none of these entities likes America or wants them in Iraq anyway, so they'll all play the game that they are buddy-buddy with Washington and then doublecross them at the first  chance they get. All three of these sides have done that and wil always do that, so there are no allies that America can court in any way in this thing, and since they are trying to be the big dogs and run the country, they have to be in cahoots with one of these factions so that they can help that faction put the others down for good again. But since all of these fuckers are fighting against America as well as against one another, none of them makes any kind of a partner at all, and that makes it damn impossible for America it build much of anything in Iraq. This whole sectarian strife scene has essentially negated the results of those elections that Washington touted so and had segregated Iraq like it has not been in many a year. What has happened is that instead of making Iraq into some kind of America  and having everyone living together side-by-side and happy, what America has done is to divide that land like it has not been divided in a long time and to set the people against one another more than they have been in ages as well. That is making it increasingly difficult for America to keep even the limited control that it has in Iraq, and with the mood of the American people definetly changed over that conflict, this spells bad news for Washington. No amount of American "shock and awe" style force can keep this from happening, they have tried, and now Washington has to deal with the reality that they cannot get the Iraqis to live together in any sort of peace or harmony. That fuckks the plans up, so something else has to be done, and a new plan in indeed in place.

   It looks like Washington is getting ready to do exactly what they said that they were not going to do whern they went in, and that is partition Iraq along these sectarian lines. As much as they do not want to, they see that they have zero choice in the matter if they ever want to stabilize the country at all. If Washington continues to pursue this policy of making Iraq into a little America, they'll never get anywhere or be able to set up jackshit. The society will stay in ruins and go nowhere and become a huge albatross around America's neck. Yes, Washington wants an eternal conflcit there, but one that they can make sure is a stalemate, not one that keeps them from implementing their policies. They know that these three sides are going to be sniping at each other for a long time to come, and that  this fighting will always be  at such a level that it justifies a continous American military presence in Iraq so they'll get their excuse to stay there. However, they cannot have this continuous state of anarchy and chaos that has become Iraq because that shi tis pissing off the American people no end and if it continues to be a bloodbath with no end or resolution in sight, the people will really demand that the troops get the fuck out of Iraq. Considering that we are just 13 months away from the perhaps the biggest Presidential election in American history, that scares  a lot of the warmongers because they are deathly afraid that the plug could be pulled on their little party next November, so they need to do something about that now to ensure that this does not happen. What they have come up with is a plan to divide  iraq into those aforementioned three seperate mini countires, with the Shi'a, Sunnis and Kurds all having their own little  fifedoms. America would stay in Baghdad and run the whole thing (or at least try to) from there and the other three could hash things out among themselves. This was not the way that Washington wanted to run things, but they  have come to the realization that they are not ever going to be able to run things that way no matter how hard they try, so they now look at this partitioning thing as an easier way to run Iraq. They figure that once they give all three groups their own mini lands, that they'll start politically fighting among themselves over how to best run this land and that will slow down the pace of the killings and shit greatly. That will make it easier for America to run the partitioned country because they'll go back to fighting against one enemy only, the insurgents, and the others will not bother them so much.  Washington feels that they can sell this to the American people because they know that the American people do not live together in this great peace and harmony that the peopagandists say they do, that they understand not wanting to be around "others" , and they'll accept shit like that in Iraq, especially if  it slows down the pace of the  war. They don't give a fuck about Iraq anyway, that place is on the other side of the earth and if Americans can stop dying there in such large numbers, they'll accept anything over there. They are not going to hold Bush and the Administration to their words and say they are going back on anything, if partitioning is the way to have some semblance of normalcy in Iraq, so be it. So that  seems to be the new Iraq policy in Washington, everyone says that they are quietly getting ready to implement it soon, so we shuld get ready for a Kurdistan, Shi'astan and Sunnistan inside of Iraq all under the auspices of Washington via Baghdad.

   The problem is, that this has very little  chance of working successfuly at all. One huge issue here is exactly what part of Iraq each of these  grouips gets, there is a huge difference in various parts of Iraq, some are arid and worthless, and others havge valuable natural resources, not the least of which is oil. None of these groupos wants the shitty parts, they all want the good stuff, but only one of them really can get  it. The traditional Kurdistan region in the north of Iraq is not a very fertile place at all, but it is where the Kurds have lived in Iraq for generations but thye really do not ewant that area for thei rown because it is a shitty area, so that is an issue with them, they want some traditional Sunni or Shi'a  lands. Issues like these are a large part of why these group hate each other to begin  with, and  partitioning is not going to help that any. Saddam realized that if he wanted to be a big timne leader, that he had to have one large Iraq, not mini-states within it, so he used force and other such ruthless tactics to keep it all together  and it worked. He did the same shit that other secular tyrants had dome before him there, used force to keep the country large and powerful. Iraq becomnes a Third World backwater if you carve it up into three mini states like that, and  dictators have realized that for millennia, and America is going to realize the same thing too. It is not going to be easier for them to govern a paritioned state, it wil be much harder. What will Washington do when one or all of these three mini states starts saying that it is a real nation and making all these demands and shit, saying they'll secede from iraq and so forth. You give these dudes these mini states and say they are theirs, you are asking for just that a lot sooner rather than later. America does not need a USSR-style headache with various states proclaiming independence and such, as that will not help govern Iraq  at all. Eventualy, these mini states are going to tell America that they have no authority there and to stay the fuck out  and Washington is going to have to drop everythig to go deal with that shit. If America does partition Iraq like that, then they embolden every other ethic and religious group in the country that will suddenly say that they are a state too, and America will have a fucking huge mess on its hands. There will be no way that they can administer to Iraq whern they have to invade Kurdistan or Shi'astan or Sunnistan  and do the same shit that they did in Iraq over  again three more times. The only way that you can effectivbely govern Iraq is to have it all in one state, and that was why the tyrants kept doing that. Since they were all from the area and understood the whole thing, they knew that it was much easier to put them all together and govern that way, but America is an outsider and does not see that and thinks that they have to parition. Back in the long ago day, the leaders of the area tried doing that time after time and they failed time after time and found out that they could not divide and conquer that way. America is no different if they try the same thing, they'll fail too, only this time, when they fail, the whole world wil be watching. Far from making things easier, the paritioning will just make things infinetly harder for America in Iraq as if they don't have it hard enough there already. It is an idea that failed in centuries past, and it failed for reasons, and those reasons have not changed simply because it is now the 21st century, and if America tries it now, they'll surely fail again just like the others have before them.

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