can never be a NATION... let alone a 'democracy' - but at best a corrupt despotism - only held together by a ruthless dictator like Saddam.
When George Bush's neocon crusaders invaded and overthrew him on an WMD snipe hunt... the old sutures broke and the rotting limbs thrashed out in a mindless paroxysm of violence from the golem creature that was created by mad scientists under a CIA grant.... © NNN
"...The boundaries of modern Iraq were settled by British officials, including Winston Churchill, who combined three Ottoman districts, the northern mostly Kurdish district administered from Mosul; the middle mostly Sunni Arab district, which contained Baghdad; and the southern mostly Shiite district, whose major city was Basra.
In Arab nationalist thinking, these decisions reflected the British desire to create an inherently unstable nation, lacking historical legitimacy and forcing three antagonistic groups to live together, so the country would never be strong and unified and would be more easily controlled by outsiders...."
A history of Iraq, the cradle of Western civilization - by Eric Black - of the Star Tribune
Iraq, which gave the world Saddam Hussein, is also the birthplace of writing, the plow and the first great code of law. It's also the birthplace of Abraham, father of the Jews and the Arabs.In earlier epochs, the territory now called Iraq was the center of the greatest powers of the day. At other times it was conquered by Alexander the Great, ravaged by the Mongols and dominated by empires based in Persia, Turkey and Britain.
Let the mutant monster of Iraq disassemble, decompose and recycle - perhaps to fertilize two or three new nations!
Do not offer the transfusion of American blood into this grotesque miscreation of the black arts. © NNN
"Today,
my absolutely last war column, until something actually blows up. I promise. Kind
of. Everybody else in the chatter racket is hooting lustily, so why shouldn't
I? I concede that as a geopolitical thinker I have the credentials of a bucket
of paint, a condition I share with the State Department and White House. Gonna
do it anyway. They do. Why are we going to fight Iraq? By asking the question
I'm not suggesting that there is no reason, just that I don't know what it is.
Help me..." 
If
she dies next month in a bombardment by the 'Axis of Goodness'
The
general secretary of the Chinese communist party, Hu Jintao, has made a
keynote speech urging the party's 65 million members to live a simple life and
avoid the temptations of money, power and sex. Ref:
Trade
in Chemical Arms Allowed Despite Their Use on Iranians, Kurds 
"Saddam
will pay for this!" - 
A
Dangerous Form of Altruism by Pat Buchanan
Congress
Gives Commander Bush Blank Check
The
Loud Little Handful - by Mark Twain
It
is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious. It
is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits
are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives.