Rice warns Iraqis: 'Unite or you don't have a future'

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Rice warns Iraqis to unite

London and Washington hunt for a solution to Iraq's deepening crisis.

The US Secretary of State gives a stark warning as London and Washington hunt for a solution to the Middle East's deepening crisis Peter Beaumont, foreign affairs editorSunday November 19, 2006The Observer

Iraqis 'don't have a future' if they give in to the sectarian tensions that are tearing apart their society, US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said during a visit to Vietnam yesterday in one of the starkest warnings on the present violent trajectory of the country.

Her comments emerged amid a tranche of bleak prognoses for the region - including one by America's most senior military officer in the Middle East, General John Abizaid, who warned that if the world does not find a way to stem the rise of violent Islamic militancy, it will face a third world war. >>>cont