Posted by rabbi yitzhak from spider-ntc-tb083.proxy.aol.com (198.81.16.188) on Monday, July 29, 2002 at 2:26PM :
A major goal of U.S. policy in a post-Hussein Iraq would be to prevent the creation of an independent state in the heavily Shiite south, or an independent Kurdish state in the north. To fulfill U.S. promises to Turkey and Arab states that Iraq would remain whole, a defense official said, “I think it is almost a certainty that we’d wind up doing a campaign against the Kurds and Shiites.”
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