Info on the Middle East

These links should allow anyone to find out anything they ever wanted to know about the Middle East. Only information. No media. No politics. And you can only find answers to the questions YOU ASK! Please, start asking and find some answers. And if anyone wants to discuss it with me, feel free because I love a discussion. We need to know the history and know the situation from an informational standpoint before we can make judgements on the validity and reasoning behind this war.

http://i-cias.com/ : like wikipedia for the Middle East, but so much better
recommend reading the part about the first Gulf War
recommend reading about Sunni vs Shi'i
recommend looking at the surrounding countries, their languages and religions and their relations with the US and oil exportation
recommend reading the history of this religious struggle
ASK QUESTIONS and then FIND THE ANSWERS

http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/ : CIA world factbook, for any statistical information on any country (except for a list of countries the US imports oil from)

Did you know that 56 percent of Iraq are Shi'i Muslims?
Did you know that 37 percent of Iraq are Sunni Muslims?
Did you know that 22 percent of the Middle East is Shi'i Muslim?
Did you know that 72 percent of the Middle East is Sunni Muslim?
Did you know the Sunnis voted against the new constitution?

If it is the Sunni that supposedly hate us and are extremists and want us all gone... we need to frikkin get educated because that means 72 percent of the other side of the globe is very unhappy with us!!! Maybe we should know why.

And this is the Iraqi constitution
http://www.cpa-iraq.org/government/TAL.html

PS: I had to write "percent" because the HTML was being all dumb

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