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Ah yes, the Kurds. I'm not too sure about the composition of Kurds and Sunnis but if you can wait a week or so (these damn finals) then I will try and pull up numbers. But in regards to their "conflict", I believe it's mostly based on ethnicity (RE: Sunni Arabs vs. Sunni Kurds).
So to illustrate (approximate):
Shias (Shiites) - Arab, muslim - 60%
Sunni - Arab, muslim - 20%
Kurds - Sunni, muslim - 20%
Other - Assyrians, Chaldeans, Jews, Christians - ??
There is a girl in my class; get this: she's French-Kurdish-Jew. But it's more through marriage I think.
Yeah, I don't have any disillusions of democracy blooming overnight in Iraq, but it's their own (in theory) and will evolve/grow accordingly. Likewise, it would be unreasonable for us (US) to expect the Iraqis (democracy) to start looking like ours.
When finals are over, I'd like to start a new thread on policy and strategy specific to Iraq.
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