Re: Saddam nephew says civil war coming to Iraq

[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Laura Bush - America's kid-killer) writes:

> Luke Harding in Zürich
> Monday December 1, 2003
> The Guardian 
> 
> Saddam Hussein's nephew launched a bitter attack yesterday on
> America's "catastrophic" occupation of Iraq.
> 
> "Every day there are explosions. People are killed. This didn't happen
> before. I don't say that the government was made up of angels, but
> there was infrastructure, security and food," he told the Zürich-based
> newspaper Blick.
> 
> "Before the US occupation Iraq was a land without terrorism. It's now
> the new Afghanistan." As a result of the chaos, al-Qaida had found a
> new safe haven.
> 
> "The problem is that the consequences could be terrible. I don't rule
> out civil war. Barzani and Talabani [the two main Kurdish leaders] are
> good leaders, but have the disadvantage of being Kurds. The Shiites
> will never accept them. The other members of the government are either
> puppets of Iran or thieves like Ahmad Chalabi" - the leader of the
> pro-Washington Iraqi National Congress.
> 
> http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,1096878
> 
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> 
> I don't really give an FF.  As long as my SUV has gas in it, let iraq
> burn.

To paraphrase Saddam's nephew: "The Kurds and Shiites won't 
let us Sunnis put the manacles back on them without a fight,
so there's going to be a civil war."

-SEan