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From White House
correspondents, August 16, 2006
US President George W. Bush rejects suggestions that
Iraq be partitioned as a way of heading off
worsening violence there, White House spokesman Tony
Snow said today.
"He doesn't buy it," the spokesman said of an
occasionally floated proposal to cut the war-torn
country into separate states.
"It's not practical. Most Iraqis don't want it," he
said.
"Iraqis look upon themselves not as - at least in
all cases - as Sunni, Shia and Kurd, but as Iraqis,
as descendants of a Mesopotamian civilisation that
has been around for a very long time.
"And they see themselves as a nationality rather
than unmeltable ethnic groups," he said.
AFP
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