I think that if you discount the Kurds in the north and the Marsh Arabs/Ma'dan in the south that this is not true.

Not according to this:

Britain also favored Iraq's Sunni Muslim Arabs -- then about 20 percent of the population -- over the Shiite Muslim Arab majority and ethnic Kurds who had rebelled against British colonial rule.

See, Britain managed to screw up the Middle East again. Now it's America's turn.

Edit: managed to find another quote in the same article that reinforces my other point about Iraq serving as a buffer to Iran:

Leaders of the Shiite opposition insist their community's share of power in any post-Saddam Iraq must match its 65 percent share of Iraq's 22 million people.

Those aspirations worry some of Iraq's other minorities as well as the country's mostly Sunni Arab neighbors, who fear that Iran's influence over Iraq would grow.


Edited by Roger (19/03/2003 11:14)
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