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Richardson Loses South Carolina Co-Chair To Biden
Joe Biden's push for a loose federation in Iraq has won him a new supporter, from right out of Bill Richardson's column. South Carolina state Rep. Fletcher Smith, who had been co-chairing Richardson's campaign in the state since July, has defected over to supporting Biden.
Smith said that Biden's plan is the only workable one, and better than Richardson's proposed total pull-out. "To me it's the only way this problem is going to be resolved," Smith told CNN. "Right now we have a quicksand of a civil war, and I don't believe we can just pull out precipitously in a six month period of time without jeopardizing our interests in the region. We don't need another evacuation that we had in Vietnam."
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October 6, 2007 9:15 PM | Reply | Permalink
"Joe Biden's push for a loose federation in Iraq has won him a new supporter"
-- Does anyone have any idea how Biden is going to force the sovereign nation of Iraq to split itself into three pieces?
October 7, 2007 12:14 AM | Reply | Permalink
It's great that Biden's partition plan has a new supporter. It's got Bidenmentum! Unfortunately, the citizens of Iraq are overwhelmingly opposed to it, as is their elected government. How to resolve this stalemate? Perhaps re-invade?
October 7, 2007 1:50 AM | Reply | Permalink
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Gopher Interloper wrote on October 7, 2007 12:14 AM:
"Joe Biden's push for a loose federation in Iraq has won him a new supporter"
-- Does anyone have any idea how Biden is going to force the sovereign nation of Iraq to split itself into three pieces?
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Although Biden's idea isn't bad, the funny thing is that about 2/3's (in a poll) believed that that Iraq, in fact, is a country/nation( a nation-state, presumably). The real issue, at least for 2/3's of the Iraq, is WHO is power, and if they power is competent. Most Iraq sees the current government as incompetent and corrupt.
However, I suspect the 1/3 that do not see Iraq as country mostly Kurds and some Sunnis. Iraqi Kurds have been operating as a defacto separate nation-state for a while.
As far as I know, Kurdish Iraqis, or Iraqi Kurds, are Muslim, and mostly Sunni at that, but they identify themselves as Kurds first.
October 7, 2007 4:24 AM | Reply | Permalink
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October 7, 2007 11:42 AM | Reply | Permalink
The Iraqi Govt is like a child; It needs leadership. Joe Biden has the plan and I think can provide the leadership to move Iraq to a federated govt which is free from the violence of the near past brought on by the failures of the Bush Administration. There are means of persuasion available to the leasdership of the US to move Iraq in a positive direction. In the short run separating the factions could allow for a cooling off period. Giving the parties control over their own civil and religious laws couldn't hurt. One thing that has to happen for Iraq to have any chance of stability is sharing of oil revenues. That has to be supervised by an independent entity initially the US and later by the UN or perhaps even by a coalition of Mid-East nations. Biden's plan is no guarantee of success, but it is far ahead of the present situation, which everyone agrees is a disaster.
October 7, 2007 5:10 PM | Reply | Permalink
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The British were also fond of comparing local governments to children -- ask them how well their paternalistic Partitions went.
October 7, 2007 8:51 PM | Reply | Permalink