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Stealhead · 03-14-13, 08:59 PM

You do realize that Saddam's regime allowed the Sunni to have control right? So most ****e kept their mouths shut or left the country.Once Saddam was gone the Sunni minority feared that they would loose control and the ****es feared that the Sunnis would get control again.And as a result they started killing each other.

In Saddams Iraq the Sunnis had power and the ****e did not by and large the ones that got along where the ones that where a part of Saddams bureaucracy and exceptions to the rule.

Maybe to you the uprising in 1991 was not seen as a Sunni .vs ****e thing but it was just like the Iran Iraq war was just like the killing that still occurs right now is.

The hatred between Sunni and ****e in Iraq and in the Middle East in general is far from something new.

From Wiki article on Sunni-Shia relations

"The governing regimes of Iraq were made mainly of Sunnis for nearly a century until the 2003 Iraq War. The British, having put down a Shia rebellion against their rule in the 1920s, "confirmed their reliance on a corps of Sunni ex-officers of the collapsed Ottoman empire". The British colonial rule ended after the Sunni and Shia united against it.[65]
The Shia suffered indirect and direct persecution under post-colonial Iraqi governments since 1932, erupting into full scale rebellions in 1935 and 1936. Shias were also persecuted during the Ba'ath Party rule, especially under Saddam Hussein. Under Saddam public Shia festivals such as Ashura were banned. It is said that every Shia clerical family of note in Iraq had tales of torture and murder to recount.[66] In 1969 the son of Iraq's highest Shia Ayatollah Muhsin al-Hakim was arrested and allegedly tortured. From 1979-1983 Saddam's regime executed 48 major Shia clerics in Iraq.[67] They included Shia leader Mohammad Baqir al-Sadr and his sister. Tens of thousands of Iranians and Arabs of Iranian origin were expelled in 1979 and 1980 and a further 75,000 in 1989.[68]
The Shias openly revolted against Saddam, following Gulf War in 1991, and encouraged by Saddam's defeat in Kuwait and simultaneous Kurdish uprising in the north. However, Shia opposition to the government was brutally suppressed, resulting in some 50,000 to 100,000 casualties and successive repression by Saddam's forces."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shia%E2...3Sunni_in_Iraq

Not that clear to you perhaps but very very clear to others.

03-14-13, 08:59 PM	#71
Stealhead Navy Seal Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Kentucky Posts: 5,421 Downloads: 85 Uploads: 0	You do realize that Saddam's regime allowed the Sunni to have control right? So most **e kept their mouths shut or left the country.Once Saddam was gone the Sunni minority feared that they would loose control and the es feared that the Sunnis would get control again.And as a result they started killing each other. In Saddams Iraq the Sunnis had power and the e did not by and large the ones that got along where the ones that where a part of Saddams bureaucracy and exceptions to the rule. Maybe to you the uprising in 1991 was not seen as a Sunni .vs e thing but it was just like the Iran Iraq war was just like the killing that still occurs right now is. The hatred between Sunni and e in Iraq and in the Middle East in general is far from something new. From Wiki article on Sunni-Shia relations "The governing regimes of Iraq were made mainly of Sunnis for nearly a century until the 2003 Iraq War. The British, having put down a Shia rebellion against their rule in the 1920s, "confirmed their reliance on a corps of Sunni ex-officers of the collapsed Ottoman empire". The British colonial rule ended after the Sunni and Shia united against it.[65] The Shia suffered indirect and direct persecution under post-colonial Iraqi governments since 1932, erupting into full scale rebellions in 1935 and 1936. Shias were also persecuted during the Ba'ath Party rule, especially under Saddam Hussein. Under Saddam public Shia festivals such as Ashura were banned. It is said that every Shia clerical family of note in Iraq had tales of torture and murder to recount.[66] In 1969 the son of Iraq's highest Shia Ayatollah Muhsin al-Hakim was arrested and allegedly tortured. From 1979-1983 Saddam's regime executed 48 major Shia clerics in Iraq.[67] They included Shia leader Mohammad Baqir al-Sadr and his sister. Tens of thousands of Iranians and Arabs of Iranian origin were expelled in 1979 and 1980 and a further 75,000 in 1989.[68] The Shias openly revolted against Saddam, following Gulf War in 1991, and encouraged by Saddam's defeat in Kuwait and simultaneous Kurdish uprising in the north. However, Shia opposition to the government was brutally suppressed, resulting in some 50,000 to 100,000 casualties and successive repression by Saddam's forces." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shia%E2...3Sunni_in_Iraq** Not that clear to you perhaps but very very clear to others. Last edited by Stealhead; 03-14-13 at 09:12 PM.