There appears to be only one thing that has the Sunni, Shia, and Kurdish people of Iraqnam united - solid opposition to George Bush's attempts to control the "black gold, Texas tea" that lies under the Iraqi desert. This story from AlterNet gives more specifics.
Despite the ethnic bloodshed in Iraq, majorities of Shiites, Sunnis and Kurds are united in their disapproval of the proposed oil laws that Washington and Big Oil are pushing.
If passed, the Bush administration's long-sought "hydrocarbons framework" law would give Big Oil access to Iraq's vast energy reserves on the most advantageous terms and with virtually no regulation. Meanwhile, a parallel law carving up the country’s oil revenues threatens to set off a fresh wave of conflict in the shell-shocked country
The bottom line however is that this is just one more example of how so many of the lies we were told in the run up to the Iraq war were just that - lies. There have been no throngs of people greeting the United States as liberators. The insurgency was not, if you will,in the last throes. The Iraq war would not pay for itself and it would not "certainly be over in six months."
The ballad of Jed Clampett tells about how after oil was found on his property, Jed's kinfolk said he should "move away from there." That also is what the Iraqi's want from the Bush Abomination and its illegal occupation of their sovereign nation. Please, Dubya, take the advice of Jed's kinfolk and move away. Far away. How about a one way ticket to Stewart Island off the south coast of New Zealand? I hear that Irian Jaya is nice this time of year. Go play tough guy there and leave the Iraqi's and your own fellow countrymen alone. Please?
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