Final phase of the Iraqi war?

The argument to divide Iraq into three or five distinct regional and ethnic entities resurfaced with renewed poignancy in recent months.

Such ideas came to head when a senior Democratic Senator offered his blueprint for resolving the Iraq debacle last week.

United States Senator Joseph Biden and foreign policy expert Leslie Gelb wrote in The New York Times that dividing the country into three separate entities would be the surest way to end the violence.

Modeled after the 1996 Dayton Peace Accords for the former Yugoslavia, "The idea, as in Bosnia, is to maintain a united Iraq by decentralising it, giving each ethno-religious group -- Kurd, Sunni Arab and Shiite Arab -- room to run its own affairs, while leaving the central government in charge of common interests," they wrote.

The timing of this declaration is not at all surprising because it follows a long list, like a recipe for civil war and decimation, which has been employed by foreign occupiers -- and covert allies -- in Iraq.

The first phase was to invade Iraq.

The second phase was propping up Iraqi exiles in power.

The third phase is fomenting civil strife and conflict.

The fourth phase is the division of the country and its oil wealth.

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