A cloud of steam rises above the crowd in the 120-degree heat. As their leader approaches the podium, the thousands who have assembled meet him with pledges of their fealty. “We are all Badr Brigade!” they shout, a reference to the paramilitary organization of the Supreme Iraqi Islamic Council (SIIC), which held this rally on July 19, in honor of… return to article
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Reader Comments (4)Page 1 of 1 pagesIt won’t really matter. Iraq is a failed state and doomed to decades of warfare. Iraq is not more than a distraction for the moment....because the drums are beating for Iran. That’s where Plan B will go into effect....
If you have any doubt whatsoever.....put the pieces together of the puzzle presented here:
FIVE EASY PIECES to IRAN - A Warning.
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Posted by skipper7 on Sep 10, 2007 at 5:22 PM Iraq won’t get any better until some Iraqi can manage to bring together Sunni, Shi ite and Kurds.
Shrub will be more apt to rescind all tax cuts and admit that he messed up by the numbers.
No Westerner will ever bring about a true peace in any area of the Mideast.
How many Peace Accords and Cease Fires have been broken by one side or the other?
Shrub had the vision of a united Iraq, modeled on the US. He is unable to acknowledge that visions are not reality.
A totally flawed policy on waging a new kind of war went down hill fast and he keeps saying be patient.
Had there been a real reason to invade Iraq other than his ego and oil, it might have been different.
Had he not appointed a SecDef who had visions of re-inventing the military as a profit making corporation, things might have been different.
But, both things did happen and the American people will be paying the cost in dollars, troops killed and, at times worse, the numerous troops who have been severely maimed, and then relegated to a 3rd world hospital in the nations capitol.
The Iraqi people have lost their lives, their homes, their way of life, all so the Shrub could declare himself a war president, after dodging the draft in ‘Nam, and get the oil companies that backed him into Iraq’s oil fields.
Posted by farmer on Sep 12, 2007 at 6:26 AM For me I’ve become so tired of the latest “conventional wisdom” about Iraq from the politicians in Washington which is along the lines of “If we pull out of Iraq, all hell will break loose.”
What history is this based on? The Middle East has long had “all hell breaking loose” and the region continues to last. We pulled out of Lebanon under Reagan and Lebanon went on to have their hell and almost every American couldn’t tell you boo about the events in the years after. Iraq and Iran had a long war in the 1980’s and hardly an American knew it was happening and those two countries had their hell. The Middle East had several wars with Israel, and “hell” was let loose and life goes on. The Infada “hell” has been going on for a decade or so and Americans live on.
Conventional wisdom from the Republicans about Iraq has been wrong repeatedly. Weapons of Mass Destruction, wrong. Mission Accomplished, wrong. De-Bathification, wrong. Elections and purple fingers, wrong. Surge, wrong...interesting that Bush is claiming success for the surge, yet when they pull out those troops next summer our troop level will be the same as before, is that progress?
We could pull out today, some type of “hell” will happen as “hell” has always happened over there, and months later Americans will have begun to ignore Iraq as we usually do when we aren’t involved.
Posted by Jon B on Sep 15, 2007 at 6:57 AM Some American troops will be required on the ground in Iraq to maintain security for the American Oil companies, Halliburton and Hunt initially, to operate.
I know Halliburton isn’t an oil company as such, but rather a provider of services to the oil drilling companies such as Hunt and whatever others can use their close ties to the Shrub and Shootist to gain permission to exploit yet another new field for the greater glory of the pocketbook.
The incidental (to them) fact that the native peoples are suffering a loss of great magnitude makes no difference.
Shrub makes a big deal of the success of the Iraqi political system which is in as bad a state as our own right now. But he had no problem with his bud from Texas bypassing the Central Government and making a side deal with an Autonomous Kurdish Region.
Guess that is part of his plan to unify Iraq by splitting it into 3 regions, Kurd, Shiite and Sunni.
And we all thought that the old Colonial System whereby select politician’s in far distant countries decided how another country should be divided up was a thing of the past. Oops.
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