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If the US pulls out its troops today or a hundred years from now, the issues will be the same for Iraq. The age old frictions that have been present for thousand of years, will always resurface.

Israel and Palestine, Catholics and Protestants in Ireland, Muslims and Sikhs in the Indian and Pakistani sub continent, atheism and religions in Russia or the former USSR, fundamentalists and liberals in the US of A. The age old need of the human to believe in a higher entity and all its diverse interpretations, have tortured our parents, ourselves and our children.

Our misery stems from the endless interpretation of a belief we cannot prove, substantiate. We all have the need to believe in some higher power for a reason, since we have no scientific proof of its existence, we are killing each other in the name of a different concept, the one that allows us to find a higher need to survive it all.

We cannot even agree on our prehistoric need to believe, we are fighting with the manifestation, our very own interpretation of a need.

The differences in Iraq and anywhere in the world, for that matter, is a matter of the lack of freedom we allow to each other. A lack of freedom of interpretation in the manifestation of a deep seated need to believe.

All humans have a need to believe in a higher power, that is what differentiates us from animals. We are an integral part of evolution in our human form. Instead of celebrating our existence and nurture our endless brain capacity, we still have this age old need to fight each other. In our human state, this need transpires in the different ideological concepts we create from one common need.

The clash in Iraq are of religious and ethical interpretations of a common need.The same differences apparent all over the world. No military power, democracy, communist, socialist regime will ever be able to resolve the age old question. This age old question is very simple, who's interpretation of God is the real one!

We are destroying each other not for the fact that we need to believe that God exist, but for the different interpretations we have created in our own mind, according to the continent our ancestors lived in.

To have religious wars in the 21st century, because that is what they are, are a proof we have not evolved enough to realize the destructive nature of our human state, it is the ultimate proof that no political system will ever defeat our original need to experience the need to believe into a higher power in our very own way.

Despotism, Communism, Socialism, Capitalism, will have come and gone, the ancient battles between your God and mine will destroy any attempt of creating peace in our world. The issues are not political they are the different interpretations of the religious manifestations of a deep seated concept of a superior power.

As long as we will not be able to accept our different interpretations of a same need, we will have wars. The immediate reasons might be obscured by the latest political system in power, but over thousand of years, the ultimate struggle has been of religious differences.

When ever we will leave Iraq is irrelevant, the differences of ideology will prevail, beyond our lifetime and the one of our children.

The battle in the Middle East, between Israel and Palestine is not political it is religious. So are the majority of the wars ever fought on our planet.

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