The dubious case for dictating Iraq's furure

The Trib's June 28 editorial "The dubious case of splitting Iraq into 3 states" displays the colonialist and paternalistic attitude of the war party's media wing that got us into this mess in the first place. Iraq was a stable buffer against extremism back in 2003 before the Trib and its media shills helped sell our criminal war against Iraq which blasted it into three parts. The Bush war cabinet waged the war as Part II of their reprehensible Middle East Makeover at the point of a smart bomb. Iraq, like Afghanistan, was a prize to conquer, then exploit. Unfortunately for the Bush thugs, the people in Iraq, surveying the murder and mayhem, pushed back. The Kurds grabbed their neighborhood as a new quasi nation, which now includes Kirkuk. The Shi'ites ethnically cleansed the Sunni tormenters from every vestige of power, governmental services and oil wealth as payback for decades of the same. The Sunni's, a majority in a large middle section of Iraq, did what any besieged folks do: they fought back. That is the human way nation states, including the US, have been formed throughout history. But the Trib Editorial Board, looking down from their lofty Tribune Tower, pontificates that such a division is not good for the US. They then demand the following: "This much is clear: al-Maliki must go." That mantra of dictating who can govern a foreign land is something the Trib repeats over and over and over: Hussein must go. Ahmadinejad must go. Assad must go. Mubarak must go. Gadhafi must go. Now it Nouri al-Maliki's turn to walk the war party's plank.

Face it folks. The Kurds and the Sunnis and the Shi'ites in the artificial nation the Brits created in their colonial arrogance of 1920, will decide the future of that pitiful land we have devastated beyond imagination.