Whose Country Is It Anyway?

Showing our further lack of knowledge about the complexity of Iraq and Iraqi history and society, our Senate has decided to partition Iraq. Didn't they have elections to create their own government?

The US Senate voted for a soft partition of Iraq on Thursday.

First they messed up Iraq by authorizing Terrible George to blow it up, now they want to further mess it up by dividing it. It makes no sense to me; the US Senate doesn't even have the authority to divide Iraq. Wouldn't that be for the Iraqi parliament?

It doesn't seem that the Iraqis agree with the vote:

The Iraqi political elite roundly condemned the Senate vote. Note that among the more vocal denunciations came from Shiite Vice President Adil Abdul Mahdi, whose own party, the Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq (ISCI), favors the creation of a Shiite superstate in the south.

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