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The future of Iraq

category dublin | anti-war / imperialism | opinion/analysis author Thursday June 08, 2006 18:12author by John O' Neill Report this post to the editors

A Dark Tunnel into a Black Abyss.

The US and its puppet government have lost control of Iraq.
They may well gloat at the death of Al-Zarqawi but their defeat in Iraq is an inevitability.

US and Iraqi Army patrols are under daily attack and most of the country is completely lawless.
Iraq is fragmenting as Shia, Sunni and Kurdish militia groups carve up the country and murder and slaughter each other.
Iraq is in short another Rwanda.
Thankfully American news corportations cannot suppress the truth of the Iraqi quagmire.
The American public have turned against the war and Republicans will lose the next elections for the House of Representatives and in 2008 will lose the White House to a Democrat tidal wave.
Before then US Army will have withdraw possibly before the end of the year.
They will leave behind the puppet Iraqi government and supposedly democratically elected parties in the Green Zone. In a relatively short time, perhaps six months maximum they will all either have been assassinated, exiled or executed by the various militia groups as the country falls apart.
Obviously there would be calls for the international community led by the UN to intervene militarily to prevent a repeat of a Rwandan style massacre in Iraq.
A US and UK led UN force would be a sick joke.Russia's genocide against Chechen Muslims excludes them too.China has oil ambitions so they could not participate either.India and Pakistan are regional superpowers with nuclear weapons. Involving them in Iraq would be a nightmare. Dozens of countries such as Italy, Spain, Ukraine, Poland and many others were complicit in the US occupation before they withdrew or began to withdraw their troops who were as hated by the Iraqis as American GI's. Their participation would also be impossible.Ireland aided the occupation by allowing US jets to refuel so our involvement would merely place our soldiers in danger having squandered our proud record internationally as peacekeepers in Lebanon, Cyprus, Liberia and elsewhere as a neutral country to be trusted.
The record of African and South American armies in genocidal wars means that they cannot be trusted either. Allowing neighbouring Syria Iran and Saudi Arabia to intervene would merely lead to a three way war for the prize of Iraqi oil fields.
The damage has been done by Bush after the removal of Saddam, who was a stabilising influence in the region but any idea of returning him to power would be absurd.
The US "War on Terror" has recruited hundreds of thousands if not millions of young Muslims worldwide who will strike back against the European and American civilian populations with loss of life we cannot even begin to imagine.

We have sowed the wind and reaped the whirlwind.

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   ?     Bewildered    Thu Jun 08, 2006 21:08 
   Probably not kidding...     Shannon    Fri Jun 09, 2006 05:13 


 
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