Here Jassim reflects on the 100 university students killed today in Iraq and on a possible operation against Muqtada Al Sadr
He also names the United Coalition Party as more dangerous than Muqtada Al Sadr, which after checking with him, I found out is the United Iraqi Alliance. (Translation from Arabic to English sometimes results in some interesting solutions - it would be easy to confuse Coalition and Alliance)
Jassim: yesterday more then 100 college studants died horribly
Karen: what happened?
Jassim: still thinking of them
Jassim: in Al Mustansiriya university in Baghdad
Jassim: a car exploded just in the fron door of the complex while studants were leaving to homes
Karen: I just don't understand why anyone would feel the need to kill innocent people!
Jassim: when they saw explosion and cut boddies arround them with blod they ran away fleeing but a suecider bombed him self among them
Jassim: I keep thinking of those studants
Jassim: girls especially
Jassim: what did the souecider was telling him self ??
Jassim: I wish I can disappear
Jassim: after all that some one come to say aaahhh why you excute Saddam
Jassim: how can we live with those animals ??
Jassim: an animal who want to kill 100 inocent studant just to prove his crazy point should not stay alive
Jassim: he must be removed
Jassim: to make societies lives better and safe
Jassim: they should remove hitler at once he shown his gressive behavior
Karen: yes...sometimes I think that it would be best to round up all the violent people and kill them. However, chances are that innocents would be mistakenly taken in the process
Karen: of course, once you kill, you yourself are a violent person
Jassim: hisitating only caused millions of innocent peoples souls
Jassim: this is not about revenge Karen
Jassim: tell me
Jassim: in your garden why you remove bad planets ??
Jassim: or in farms
Jassim: I will tell you
Karen: they should arrest these people
Karen: I agree
Jassim: it is the same
Jassim: but it is important to make sure and recognize who is the bad and who is the good
Karen: yes. That is always the problem
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Jassim: i think some thing happening soon
Jassim: some arm conflict
Jassim: I heard romurs of a limited operation by ploice to arest Muqtada and don't know how true it is, they gave us an extra hours of power, this was always an indecator that some thing is going on
Jassim: I feel it but not knowing what is it or what would happen
Karen: I hope that they catch Muqtada
Karen: that would be the best for everyone
Jassim: well not only Muqtada is scaring
Jassim: he is only a one among many
Karen: well, one is a start
Jassim: what is more dangerous then Muqtada in Shia areas is the united colation party
Jassim: they are organized and strongly suported by Iran
Jassim: they are not killing or bombing but they aim to control
Jassim: I consider them much dangerous then Muqtada
Karen: interesting. What are their goals?
Jassim: to role
Karen: to rule
Jassim: I was suspecting that they have their ways to make american fail in their plans in Iraq
Jassim: only to force them to leave so they will be free to do what they want
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Karen, I completely understand if the following is too long (or perhaps too complex of English) to pass along to Jassim (certainly feel free to reword this as you feel necessary); however, for the last few months I've been feeling that it is likely our best chance to drastically reduce the number of American soldiers getting killed while still avoiding complete civil war and a resulting massive humanitarian crisis in Iraq. I hadn't mentioned it to you before because I thought there was no chance our government would ever try to implement such a radically different plan anyway; however, I just heard Sen. Joe Biden (now running for President) embrace a very similar idea (albeit more of a confederacy of semi-autonomous states than seperate countries) ... so ... I'd love to get an Iraqi's personal opinion on it - and his best guess on how most of the population of Iraq would feel about this too.
Here we go:
I think our best chance for "success" is:
Partition the country into three new separate autonomous states.
The Kurds already BADLY want Kurdistan to be its own sovereign country - I've read they recently voted on this issue (in a completely non-binding resolution) and it passed by something like 98%! I would guess that the Shia would gladly rule a land of their own. So the two tricky parts are:
1. Set up an "oil profit sharing" agreement that will provide the Sunnis with some oil revenue. Granted, this will require plans for inspections and auditing to minimize "cheating".
2. Due to all the horrific sectarian torturing and killing that has taken place, we will need to heavily patrol those new borders for a pre-determined amount of time (until each of the three new countries can adequately do so for themselves).
Pros:
1. No more Americans on urban patrols (where our troops are currently so easily ambushed).
2. Shia and Sunni power is kept more balanced in the region.
3. If needed, Exxon and BP can still get their PSA (profit sharing) revenue (a proposal already seriously in the works there in Iraq - albeit not yet passed).
Cons:
1. Iran and the new Shia state will closely align. (However, Iran and Iraq's Shia majority are already doing this - at least this way Iran won't end up effectively controlling ALL of Iraq.)
2. Many Iraqis would have to relocate. (However, massive sectarian evacuations are already going on anyway.)
NOTE: I've heard that the current country of Iraq is only about 80 years old ... that it was forcefully formed by the British Empire from the remains of the old Ottoman Empire. If this is true, then I would think the Kurds, Sunnis, and Shia never WANTED to share a country to begin with!!!
One additional question: I've heard that there is a fair amount of Shia who are married to Sunnis - if this is true, would such a plan tear apart such families? Or do Iraqis think they could somehow avoid any such results - perhaps because one of those two new countries would not try to punish such mixed families (especially once their own leaders realize they already have full control of their own country)?
After re-reading all that I wrote, I'd like to make the following clarifications/additions:
1. I list the PSA as a "pro" only because I KNOW our politians (who are so closely tied to the oil industry) would NEVER agree to ANY plan that won't get them their PSA money.
2. I forgot a potential "con" I meant to include: Would this likely result in some Shia holy sites to be in the new Sunni country - and some Sunni holy sites to be in the new Shia country - so the plan is simply unacceptable from a religious standpoint?
3. Could the Shia and Sunnis come to an agreement on borders (that they can both "live with" - even if they're each not completely happy with their placements)?
r_bayless, you can read Jassim's answer at
http://alenaae.blogspot.com/2007/02/should-iraq-be-
divided-into-kurdish.html
Take a look.
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