A federal democracy in the Iraqi context doesn't work. it's not a natural country in that it had it's borders drawn for it. Democracy in the Middle East is a hard enough thing to achieve anyway, but especially in this case when you have three very different countries subsued into one.
Personally, I expect the insurgency to gather pace, us and uk public opinion to force them to declare victory and leave, large scale civil strife between the shiites and sunni populations and kurdistan to decalre independence. Iran could make things difficult down south too.
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I’ve been a little down because today my doctor diagnosed me with John Travolta Syndrome. It’s a condition where your face or head grows laterally, getting wider year by year. It’s not so much of a problem and it’s nothing to be ashamed of, it’s just a condition. In fact mine is good because it means my brain is getting bigger too. But not that Travolta guy, his head is mostly fat. The doctors said I am much smarter than John Travolta and I believe them.
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