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U.S. Senator says Iraq should be divided
into 3 independent states
1.9.2007
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September 1, 2007
Greensburg, USA, -- US Republican
presidential candidate Sen. Sam Brownback told high
school students in this tornado- ravaged city
Thursday that the United States needs a “political
surge” in Iraq that will divide that country into
three independent states with a weak federated
government in Baghdad.
Responding to a question from a student, the
Republican presidential candidate drew in blue
marker on a dry-erase board a rough sketch of Iraq
divided into a Kurdish, Sunni and Shiite regions.
Amid the ruins of the students’ Kansas town that was
all but destroyed by a May 4 tornado, Brownback gave
them an impromptu lesson on rebuilding Iraq.
“Baghdad is the biggest problem of this right now,”
he told about two dozen juniors and seniors crowded
into one of the modular classrooms that has become
their school.
The United States should “facilitate the movement”
of people in that city into ethnic neighborhoods, he
said. “It is the reality of what is on the ground.
If you don’t do it, it happens by death squads,” he
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Presidential hopeful Sen. Sam Brownback, R-Kan.
talks to students at Greensburg High School in
Greensburg, Kan. Thursday, Aug 30, 2007 AP. Sam
Brownback, the Republican presidential 2008
candidate
official website |
The conflict between the Shiite and Sunni
communities has gone on for a thousand years, and
the United States can’t resolve it, Brownback said,
adding that the American people are tired of the
Iraq war.
Outside the classroom later, Brownback said he is a
supporting a bipartisan bill to split Iraq, with a
Kurdish region in the north and separate Shiite and
Sunni regions in the south.
AP
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