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Old 10-27-2012, 01:36 PM
 
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This AP wire story on the latest violence in Iraq notes the following:


Bombings near playing children, other attacks kill 31 across Iraq as families mark holiday



In the northern city of Mosul, gunmen broke into the houses of two Shabak families, killing a boy and his parents in one and a mother and daughter in the other, according to police. A bomb exploded near the house of another Shabak family, wounding six family members.


The Shabaks are a small ethno-religious minority, numbering around 60 to 70 thousand people. Their language - Shabaki - is closer to Kurdish and Farsi than Arabic. Their religion is syncretic; it borrows elements from Shia Islam and merges them with older traditions, including their own non-Islamic religious texts.

Like the Yazidis (another nearby Iraqi religious minority), they have been viciously persecuted and ethnically-cleansed from whole areas of Iraq since the invasion in 2003.

This has been the fate of Iraq's Christians, Mandeans, Ahmadis, Zoroastrians, Yarsanis, etc. as well as Iraqi Sunnis or Shiites living in "the wrong" areas.

A common defense of the Iraq War is that since Saddam massacred people and engaged in ethnic cleansing, it was right to remove him.

Well, if the goal was to stop ethnic cleaning in Iraq... it failed. Badly. To this very day.
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Old 10-27-2012, 01:42 PM
 
Location: Florida
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It was such a great move to invest a trillion dollars into nation building in Iraq. Too bad Bush can't run for a 3rd term, because if he did, we could do the same in Iran. Oh, wait, Romney is promising that anyway. Never mind.
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Old 10-27-2012, 02:02 PM
 
Location: Earth
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Well, Saddam Hussein "tried to kill my daddy" and "god told me to attack" Iraq, said Bush.
This is on his head, and, unfortunately on ours.
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Old 10-27-2012, 03:16 PM
 
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A common defense of the Iraq War is that since Saddam massacred people and engaged in ethnic cleansing, it was right to remove him.

Well, if the goal was to stop ethnic cleaning in Iraq... it failed. Badly. To this very day.
That's what happens when you invade a country, based on lies.

You never win.

This invasion will scar both countries for a very, very long time.
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Old 10-27-2012, 03:17 PM
 
Location: Southern California
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We should go back in and shock and awe 'em again.

[iraq redux]
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Old 10-27-2012, 03:57 PM
 
Location: Atlanta & NYC
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Hi I'm the US and I expected something good to come out of invading another country.
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Old 10-27-2012, 04:05 PM
 
Location: Eastern NC
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Hi I'm the US and I expected something good to come out of invading another country.
Nothing good can come out of invading a sovereign country.
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