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Old 01-13-2013, 09:35   #1
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Iraq - Pushing Toward Civil War?

Pushing toward civil war?

Sam Wyer from the Institute for The Study of War takes a look at the evolving protests across Iraq.

And so it goes...

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Political Update: Mapping the Iraq Protests
ISW, 11 Jan 2013

Over the last three weeks, both anti-government and pro-government demonstrations have spread across Iraq, split geographically along sectarian lines. The graphics {link below} depict where anti-government protests first erupted and how they have steadily spread throughout predominantly Sunni areas north and west of Baghdad. After two weeks of anti-government demonstrations, pro-government counter-protests emerged in the southern predominately Shi’a provinces. The geographic split of the movements is both a factor and an accelerant of sectarian tensions in Iraq.

http://www.understandingwar.org/back...-iraq-protests
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Old 01-13-2013, 10:22   #2
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This is kind of a mystery...

"Moqtada al-Sadr, the leader of the Shi’a political organization the Sadrist Movement, has voiced cautious support for the demonstrations, but has thus far not mobilized his supporters to participate."
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I'm surprised he is still alive.
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Old 01-13-2013, 13:27   #4
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We've discussed this ad nauseum. When we decided to leave Iraq and when we leave A-Stan there will be civil war. It's the middle east, tell me a year, or century when they were not fighting with someone else or themselves?
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We've discussed this ad nauseum. When we decided to leave Iraq and when we leave A-Stan there will be civil war. It's the middle east, tell me a year, or century when they were not fighting with someone else or themselves?
I couldn't agree more. Even if we left Iraq a utopia and A-stan the same, it will still degrade in to a civil war. The outside factions play a role to spark sectarian violence and once that ball starts rolling, it doesn't stop. This particular one started millennia ago and it keeps slowly rolling along.
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