Iraq: The Facts On The Ground

Another excellent analysis of Iraq and how the US Leftists are ignoring the reality on the ground. Arm yourself with these facts and you can argue the Leftists into the ground where they belong.

Iraq: The Facts On The Ground: "The major problem in Iraq is back in the United States. There, many politicians either don't bother, or don't want to believe, what is actually happening, and has happened, in Iraq. In a way, that makes sense. Because what is going on in Iraq is so totally alien to the experience of American politicians. But many Americans take a purely partisan, party line, attitude towards Iraq. So logic and fact has nothing to do with their assessments of the situation.
The facts are these. Iraq is an ancient civilization that has been subjected to foreign occupation (Mongol, Iranian, Turkish, British) for the last thousand years. Iraq was put together by the British, in the 1920s, from fragments of recently dissolved Turkish Ottoman empire. The northern part of Iraq, containing mainly Kurds, was considered part of Turkey itself, and not an imperial province like the rest of Iraq. But there was oil up there, and the British did not want the Turks to have that, in case there was an effort to revive the Ottoman empire. The British set up a constitutional monarchy, complete with parliament, and royal family imported from Saudi Arabia (a noble family that had been ousted by the Sauds). While democracy was alien to this part of the world, many Iraqis took to it. But there were serious problems with corruption, tribal, ethnic and religi"