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...anybody ask the Iraqis? While U.S. officials commonly use terms such as "meddling" to describe Iranian involvement in Iraq - an accusation echoed by Sunni leaders inside Iraq and by the Sunni Arab regimes with which Secretary Rice has been meeting in recent days - the Shi'ite and Kurdish parties that lead Iraq's government don't share Washington's animus towards Tehran; in both cases they have close ties with Iran forged during years of exile and warfare...
...Under the new law those revenues - like those from elsewhere - will flow into a new national Oil Fund and then be carved up among each region in proportion to its population. Since only the Kurds in the north and the Shi'ites in the south produce oil, that ensures Sunni areas around central Iraq - coyly termed "non-producing provinces" in the law - aren't left out of the deal, potentially deepening Iraq's ethnic divide...
...rules by members. They also want to require lawmakers to pay the full cost for flights they take on corporate jets. As part of his hearings, Biden will bring in Peter Galbraith, a foreign policy expert who backs Biden's preferred strategy in Iraq, dividing the country into Sunni, Shiite and Kurd regions. For his part, Obama is looking for ways to stop Bush from increasing troops in Iraq, such as inserting a provision in the bill that funds ongoing military operations to forbid money from being spent on additional troops. Dodd, Kerry and another potential White House hopeful, Hillary...
...Dividing Iraq would serve no purpose. The fighting there would just escalate from an Iraqi civil war to a war among Arab states. If the different factions in Iraq are separated, it won't mean they would peacefully coexist; they would keep fighting. Nobody but a few Sunni tribes liked Saddam, and nobody can say it isn't good that he is gone, but most Iraqis share only one viewpoint now: they want the U.S. out. If the U.S. set a deadline for getting out of Iraq, it would help. Reuben Luoma-Overstreet Dulles, South Africa...
...dead body and gleefully yell “to hell,” dispelling any notion of an “Iraq for all Iraqis” grounded in justice and equality. Even the timing of the execution appeared to be a deliberate affront to Iraqi Sunnis, as Saddam was hung minutes before the start of the Sunni holy festival of Eid. The result of the fiasco at the gallows is that across the Sunni world, Saddam, once anathema even to most Sunnis, is rapidly being transformed into a martyr who courageously stood up to a vengeful Shiite majority. Iraq?...