Black Goes Dumpster Diving to Bash Bachmann #3
Posted by Andy on February 23rd, 2007
Here’s a statement from Congresswoman Bachmann regarding “Caliphate-gate”.
“I am sorry if my words have been misconstrued, but it is well known that
Iraq is a conglomeration of many groups of people that emerged out of
European colonialization. The three primary sects in Iraq are Kurds, Sunnis
and Shi’a, and the idea that Iraq might be partitioned into three distinct
entities - Kurdish, Shiite and Sunni - has been intermittently considered
since the beginning of the Iraq war in 2003. One of the reasons that this
never became policy is because the Shi’a and the Kurds had larger states
that many believed would have engulfed them, either peacefully or by force -
Turkey in the case of the Kurds, and Iran in the case of the Shi’a.“In the case of Iran, there are multiple reasons to believe they would seek
to expand their territory to include Shi’a Iraq - namely, their natural
cultural ties, the long history of Iran and Iraq wars, and regional
security. A fourth and powerful reason is that success in Iraq for the West
could threaten the future of the current Iranian leadership and its Islamic
Revolution. There is already a strong antagonism against the ruling regime
in Iran and a successful, democratic Iraq could pose trouble for Iran.“Although it is difficult to ascertain Iran’s intentions toward Iraq, they
are clearly not in the U.S. interest - for example, the Iranian weapons that
have fallen into the hands of insurgents. If Iran is allowed to freely
operate in Iraq and continues to thwart the U.S. and the Iraqi government,
then we may very well see a de facto partition in which the western Anbar
province continues to house and develop terrorists.”
As I said more to come.
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