ANTHROPOLOGIST REPORTED CIVIL WAR THREE YEARS AGO

[Modern media tends to use itself as a guide to reality. Hence NBC
thinks Iraq's civil war started with its pronouncement that it had.
This, of course, is nonsense, witness the following. Although we did not
run this particularly item, we cited Beeman during both parts of the
Iraq War (under Bush I & II) If NBC had spent less time with "military
experts" and more time with people like Beeman who actually knew the
area, they wouldn't have had to wait so long to make their ex cathedra
pronouncements.]

WILLIAM O. BEEMAN, PACIFIC NEWS SERVICE, AUG 29, 2003 - The bombing of
one of Islam's holiest shrines not only killed an important Shi'a
leader, it also signals the first shot in an Iraqi civil war that Middle
East experts warned would ensue if Saddam were removed without careful
planning. One of the most consistent and ominous prewar warnings to the
Bush administration by Middle East experts was that removal of Saddam
Hussein without the most careful political and social engineering would
result in the breaking apart of Iraq into warring factions that would
battle each other for decades.

The hawks in the White House would not listen. They were so wedded to
the fantasy scenario that the removal of Saddam in an act of "creative
destruction" would result in the automatic emergence of democracy. They
brushed aside all warnings.

Present-day Iraq was three provinces of the Ottoman Empire before World
War I. It was cobbled together by the British for their own convenience
after that conflict.

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