Like I have said time and again, I have mixed feelings about the division, but Obama was dead set against the war, but he runs for a possible solution. He is not gonna be the nominee by being a waffler.

Is anyone surprised that a Kurd would find it OK.?


Oct. 7 (Bloomberg) -- Iraqi President Jalal Talabani endorsed a plan gaining support in the U.S. Congress to divide Iraq along ethnic lines into three separate regions under a limited central government.

Talabani, a Kurd, said a so-called soft partition of Iraq would prevent civil war among the country's Shiite and Sunni Muslims and Kurds.

The U.S. Senate voted 75-23 in favor of a non-binding resolution supporting establishment of such a federal system in Iraq. The idea has been championed by Democratic Senator Joseph Biden of Delaware and the resolution, approved Sept. 26, was co- sponsored by Republican Senator Sam Brownback of Kansas. Both lawmakers are seeking the presidential nomination of their parties.


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Analysts are saying that the dividing may not be the best idea to consider.


WASHINGTON: Limiting the power of Iraq's central government and giving more control to ethnically divided regions might lead to large-scale violence and intervention by neighboring countries, an analyst says.

Such programs sometimes amount to federalism or "soft partition." Their adoption could mean widespread bloodletting and "local atrocities seem all too likely," according to Anthony H. Cordesman of the Center for Strategic and International Studies.

Political instability could ensue and Iraq's economic development could be crippled, said Cordesman, a former director of intelligence assessment at the Defense Department.


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Another prominent person in Iraq signs on to the divide.


BAGHDAD (AP) — The son and heir apparent of Iraq's top Shiite politician came out strongly Saturday in favor of autonomy for Iraq's religiously and ethnically divided regions, a potentially explosive issue on Iraq's already highly polarized political landscape.

Ammar al-Hakim, who is being groomed to take over the Supreme Islamic Iraqi Council, the country's largest Shiite party, has been a firm supporter of federalism from the outset. But his unusually strident language appeared to signal growing impatience with Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's inaction on key issues and his failure to bring fractured groups together.


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Sadr does not like the idea much.


NAJAF, Iraq (AFP) - Powerful Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr came out fiercely against federalism on Sunday a day after a leading Shiite politician said Iraq should be split into semi-autonomous regions based on sect and ethnicity.

To demand federalism is to flirt with a non-binding US Senate resolution calling for a devolution of power to three self-governing regions -- for Shiites, Sunnis and Kurds, Sadr's office said in the holy city of Najaf.

On Saturday Ammar Hakim, son and heir-apparent of Abdel Aziz al-Hakim, leader of the Supreme Islamic Iraqi Council (SIIC), called dividing the country "an Iraqi interest, wish and decision.


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No surprise the Iraqi's are against it. It their choice, not ours. Just the fact we suggested it is enough to make then resist the idea.

It appears that the Iraqis are finding political common ground, at least for now.