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Originally posted by Liquor Dealer
Iraq is a very dangerous place - there are munitions everywhere - people are shooting people - Am I missing something here? Is it not possible he could be involved in an accident? Naw!
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The idea has merit, AS LONG AS THE CIA ISN'T INVOLVED IN ANY WAY!!!!!!!
In 1959 the Iraqi president started to get all cosy with the Soviet Union. Iraq was becoming a dangerous place and likely to go communist! The CIA decided to assassinate the Iraqi President and in the best traditions of deniability they got a brainless 22 year old Iraqi thug to do the shoot. The assassination didn't go well... The shooter killed the wrong man, only slightly wounded the Iraqi President, got himself shot in the leg by one of his assistants, and had to be whisked out of the country and moved around the middle east under CIA protection until it was safe for him to return to Iraq (after somebody competent did the shoot in 1962).
No prizes for guessing the name of the CIA's incompetent assassin!
The fundamental problem with Iraq, and indeed the whole of the middle east is that the borders of the various states do not follow the ethnicity of the peoples who live there. That's what happens when you let European and American leaders loose with maps and coloured pencils. Inciting and encouraging Arab, Moslem and Jewish nationalism during wars in the past certainly didn't help. In short, President Woodrow Wilson, T.E. Lawrence, and David Lloyd George are to blame for this mess and I doubt that it will be fixed in our lifetime. The recent war certainly didn't fix it.
My bet for the next 5 years is that Iraq will fragment and become not one rogue state, but 3. I'll bet that we WILL have to invade again and next time it'll be the entire middle east (do we have the resources to do this?) and we go in as an invading & occupying army like we did with Germany and Japan in 1945.
Mike.