Endgame in Iraq Bangkok Post
Even a brief visit to the southern Iraqi port of Umm Qasr leaves me convinced that we are entering the endgame here. The coming Iraqi votes, in October over the new constitution and in December over a new parliament, are going to tell America whether it is worth staying here or not for much longer. Despite all the shameful blunders of Donald Rumsfeld, Iraq, at the end of the day, was always going to be what the Iraqis decided to make of it. And the Iraqi majority _ the Shi'ites and Kurds who make up roughly 80% of this country _ have spoken. They want an Iraq that will be decentralised and will allow each of their communities to run its own affairs and culture _ without fear of ever again being dominated and brutalised by an oil-backed Sunni minority regime in Baghdad. Equally important, both the Kurds and the Shi'ites have made it clear that they have no interest in telling the Sunnis how to live, and will cut them a slice of Iraq's oil revenue and maintain Iraq's basic Arab identity.
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