It's the same old story, isn't it? Ireland, Kashmir, Israel, Iraq, Ruanda, Liberia, Sierra Leone, Congo..... Greedy western - usually British - colonialists invent "countries" to suit their own worthless motives, completely ignoring the people on the ground, and 100 years later we reap the whirlwind of the wind they sowed. Look at Ireland after 300 years. It still isnt right. There is no logic on the ground within the people of the area to have a country called Iraq, with at least 3 completely separate peoples, at least one of which at any one time feels oppressed, and all of which have stronger links with "outsiders" (Iran for the Shiites, Turkish Kurds for the Kurds) than with their supposed countrymen. It's a recipe for disaster. I had to laugh this week when Labour stand up and complain that Iran is "interfering" (!!) in Iraq in support of Shia militias! As the guy no sense of irony at all? Iran is helping its brothers and cousins! How on earth does he work out that Britain has a right to invade Iraq but Iran has no right to be there? He doesn't get bit. He can't see (or can't admit) that we are seen as invaders there. I don't know how much you know about the area, but Britain is universally distrusted amongst the shiites there because of our double dealing history in the region, especially the way we imposed the Shah of Iran on that country against the wishes of the people in order to protect our own interests. And that, Dave, is almost a mirror image of what USA and UK are doing in Iraq now under the pretext of "liberating" it from Saddam. It stinks, and if we get a bloody nose out of it then we shall deserve it

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