Kurds preparing takeover; ......U.S. exit strategy at risk | |
Cosmo Topper User ID: 46032 United States 12/30/2005 09:56 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | The West puts Saddam in power to (1) avoid a "communist" regime takeover and (2) to have a "strongman" in place to force the disparate population to submit to "national unity". Of course, the interest to begin with is the oil. Now the West removes the "strongman" from power to bring "freedom" and representative government, which means either the fundamentalist Shia become the new strongman or the region breaks up into factions. If the Shia dominate, the former secular Iraq becomes West Iran. If Iraq breaks up, then Turkey and the Kurds are ready for strife, the blurred line between the Sunni and the Shia is a zone of strife, and the Shia SE still becomes West Iran. After the dessert dust settles, does the oil still flow as the U.S.wants it to? But one thing for sure from all this - Israel, thanks to American lives and money, got rid of Saddam and his militarized nation state. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 39764 Canada 12/30/2005 10:05 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | What a fu**ed up mess. Good God. So the Kurds take the North, Shiites the South and the US is still destroying the country to try and take control which they probably will not get excepting the oil fields for all the good that'll do 'em. Poor Iraqi's :`( |
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Black Diamond User ID: 58301 United States 12/30/2005 11:48 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | The west's nightmare: A stronger Iran. We are in the middle of a revolution waiting to happen. Oh, what exit strategy are you talking about? The reduction I heard was 7000 us ...some time, mumble mumble. Not a significant number or "strategy". The most interesting thing I saw this week was a U.S. army type saying it is up to Iraq to stop the "insurgency"."As we step back the Iraq's must step up" ? |
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User ID: 39764 Canada 12/30/2005 12:34 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | By Tom Lasseter Knight Ridder Newspapers KIRKUK, Iraq — Iraq's Kurdish leaders have inserted more than 10,000 of their militia members into Iraqi army divisions in northern Iraq to lay the groundwork to swarm south, seize the oil-rich city of Kirkuk and possibly half of Mosul, Iraq's third-largest city, and secure the borders of an independent Kurdistan. Interviews with Kurdish leaders and troops in the region suggest that U.S. plans to bring unity to Iraq before withdrawing American troops by training and equipping a national army aren't gaining traction. Instead, some troops formally under U.S. and Iraqi national command are preparing to protect territory and ethnic and religious interests in the event of Iraq's fragmentation, which many of them think is inevitable. The soldiers said that while they wore Iraqi army uniforms, they considered themselves members of the peshmerga — the Kurdish militia — and were awaiting orders from Kurdish leaders to break ranks. Many said they wouldn't hesitate to kill Iraqi army comrades, especially Arabs, if a fight for an independent Kurdistan erupted. [link to seattletimes.nwsource.com] Over the side and damn the barracuda |