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    Alternate names:
        Partition of Iraq
        Three-state solution
        Iraq regions

    Names to redirect to this article (or sub-section, if that's what it is):
        [[Partition of Iraq]]
        [[Three-State Solution]]  (yes, I believe the capitals are necessary, and it's a proper noun, since only one instance can ever exist)


    The point here is not to explicitely advocate for or against the partition or Iraq.  The point
    is twofold:
    
        - it is a proposal which has been suggested MANY MANY times in the press, and even if it
          doesn't happen, its worldwide consideration is already part of the history books, and its
          consideration will be brought up during the consideration of future partitioning
          proposals

          (historical precedent: the [[Yugoslav Committee]] formed several years before the
          [[Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes]] was officially created)

        - (MUCH more loosely, since it could be interpretted as advocating for the status quo, or
          advocating for the current trends to continue in the same direction, both of which may very
          well change (or may not))
          The press sometimes talks about the ''de facto'' partition of Iraq, in that groups of
          people are voluntarily leaving their current homes and moving to form homogenous pockets
          of people.  This is particularly true of the semiautonomous region controlled by 
          [[Kurdistan Regional Government]] which is recognized in Iraq's constitution.
                
    
    Rough outline/sections:
        - federal system within a united country
            - Biden-Gelb plan
            - Iraqi Constitution, articles 112-117 defining a federal system of regions
        - fully sovereign regions
            ?
        - Challenges  (if the country were to partition...  or just challenges of the multiethnic parties working together)
            - oil revenue sharing
            - Baghdad
        - Criticism  (OBVIOUSLY there needs to be a section for this...  there has been a large amount written about how it won't work)



    Should it be a separate article, or a section of [[Sectarian violence in Iraq]], or a section of [[Federalism in Iraq]]?
        - if created as a separate article, there'd almost certainly be a merge tag slapped on it instantly  (and/or an AfD mandating a merge)
        - on the other hand, it'd REALLY be nice to have a separate talk page for it
        - also, 
        - it would probably stand a better chance of surviving separately if it was named something
          like "proposals for 



    See-also/"neighboring articles":
        [[Transitional Administrative Law]]
        [[Federalism in Iraq]]
            [[Federal government of Iraq]]
            [[Regions of Iraq]]
                [[Kurdistan Regional Government]] + [[Iraqi Kurdistan]]
                    [[Kirkuk status referendum, 2008]]
            [[Iraq oil law (2007)]]
        [[Civil war in Iraq]]
        [[Refugees of Iraq]]

    
    References
        http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/article664974.ece
            America ponders cutting Iraq in three
        http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/09/26/AR2007092601506.html
            Senate Endorses Plan to Divide Iraq
        http://www.planforiraq.com/
        http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/08/23/AR2006082301419.html
            Biden-Gelb plan for partitioning Iraq
        http://www.defenselink.mil/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=46258


    Pieces to draw structure from:
        http://volokh.com/posts/1147298127.shtml
            

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