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Sen. Joseph Biden of Delaware, who is a Democratic presidential candidate and chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, has sought for months to attract support for a partition plan he formulated with Leslie Gelb, former head of the private Council on Foreign Relations. It would establish a federal system of government in Iraq.
The idea has gained some attention in Congress but has not been embraced by the Bush administration.
Originally posted by shots
Stupid Idea if you ask me. The first thing they will do is start fighting over who gets the OIL which will not help a thing.:shk:
Originally posted by infinite8
I'm not sure if it is such a bad idea. Seperate them into states, let them have organized meetings and voting. Its complicated, but should be looked into.
Originally posted by FredT
How do you divide the oil? Per capital? By territory?
Originally posted by shots
You can't Fred there in lies the problem. The only way to control the oil is to have full control under one roof /sect be it sunnis Kurds or sunni.
Originally posted by Bleys
Even if you could get the three major factions in Iraq to agree there is a bigger problem with such a move. Turkey. B.
Originally posted by FredT
The only solution to the oil and GOD help me is have the UN set up a comission that pumps the oil and then distributes the revenue based on population or some other agreed upon formula.
Originally posted by Justin Oldham
We have long since passed the point when partition may have been possible. Now that he Iraqis are hip-deep their own civil war, any partition would only play tothe advantage of the Kurds and the Shiites. There would be no 'peace' as Mr. Bush would like to think of it. We've proven that we can't keep these parties from fighting. It's time for us to go. When Al Qaeda and others show up in America, it'll be our job to deal with that problem as it arises.
Originally posted by Justin Oldham
At the risk of sounding like a broken record, please let me point out one thing. Bush41 promised the people of Iraq that we would liberate them. Like it or not, he pledged our national word to that endeavor. He failed to honor that promise at the end of the first gulf war. We were 12 years late, but we have at long last honored that pledge. Bush43 got a chance to clean up his daddy's mess, and we as a nation made good on a President's pledge. In this respect, and for these reasons, we "won."