HINDSIGHT IS TERRIFIC



A PRE INVASION PLAN

Was never big on the invasion of Iraq on principle. Also know no more about the region than what one can gather from afar.

There maybe sound reasons why Hussein was not arrested and tried after the first gulf war. But when the crimes he has been convicted of were perpetrated before the first gulf war, you are possibly not to far out of order to consider that it would have been a better answer.

Someone with more first hand experience maybe able to say why this wouldn’t work but what would suit Iraq best is a federation. Three states with their own autonomy joined under the one national banner. Not unlike Australia is with seven states.

Would suspect that it is to late for the current occupying forces to set such a plan in motion.

What you would have needed is a go in plan of an original military partition into the three states when the old regime was toppled. Then the conducting of votes in each of the divisions to see if a federated Iraq with three inner autonomies was desired and take it from there.

Wealth may be to disproportionate between the three states for the plan to succeed. Plausibly, though, the first democratic action should have been about whether or not Iraq wanted to be a nation. Not about the election of individuals to a national assembly.