3-Jan-14 World View -- Al-Qaeda seizes cities in Iraq

[John]

3-Jan-14 World View -- Al-Qaeda militants seize cities in Iraq's Anbar province


Car bomb explodes in Hezbollah stronghold in Beirut, Lebanon

** 3-Jan-14 World View -- Al-Qaeda militants seize cities in Iraq's Anbar province
** http://www.generationaldynamics.com/pg/ ... tm#e140103



Contents:
Car bomb explodes in Hezbollah stronghold in Beirut, Lebanon
Al-Qaeda militants seize cities in Iraq's Anbar province


Keys:
Generational Dynamics, Lebanon, Beirut, Hezbollah,
Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, Syria, Bashar al-Assad,
Iraq, Fallujah, Ramadi, Anbar Province, George Bush,
Nouri al-Maliki, Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, ISIS,
Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, ISIL

[psCargile]

Not surprised by Al Qeda in Iraq; always thought all they had to do was wait until we left. Knowing GD says "not by much", I wonder how things would be if Hussein were still in power?

[NoOneImportant]

Were Hussein still in power, my guess is that things would be the same, but different. Instead of Shia repressing Sunni, it would be secular Sunnis repressing Shia - as it had been throughout all of Hussein's Ba'athist reign; although Saddam was an equal opportunity monster, killing and torturing all who he perceived threatened him or dared to eclipse his popularity including Kurds, Shia, Christians, and some Sunni - Ba'athists who became "inconvenient."

Just a guess.