What's Really Happening in Iraq?
Some of my leftier acquaintances get really mad when I suggest that this Iraq misadventure might actually end up working in the long run. Of course, some of my leftier friends get mad at just about everything... But I digress.
This paints a very different picture of Iraq from the one we're used to getting. On the one hand it's (allegedly) a first-hand account. On the other, I found it at Instapundit, so let the reader beware.
Some of my leftier acquaintances get really mad when I suggest that this Iraq misadventure might actually end up working in the long run. Of course, some of my leftier friends get mad at just about everything... But I digress.
This paints a very different picture of Iraq from the one we're used to getting. On the one hand it's (allegedly) a first-hand account. On the other, I found it at Instapundit, so let the reader beware.
posted by Winston Smith at
6:57 AM
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Denial ain't just a river in egypt.
Iraq's election result: a divided nation
"Iraq is disintegrating. The first results from the parliamentary election last week show the country is dividing between Shia, Sunni and Kurdish regions.
Religious fundamentalists now have the upper hand. The secular and nationalist candidate backed by the US and Britain was humiliatingly defeated."
And there's even more good news:
Kurds in Iraqi army proclaim loyalty to militia
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.
Five days of 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 that are 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 still 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 their Iraqi army comrades, especially Arabs, if a fight for an independent Kurdistan erupted.
"It doesn't matter if we have to fight the Arabs in our own battalion," said Gabriel Mohammed, a Kurdish soldier in the Iraqi army who was escorting a Knight Ridder reporter through Kirkuk. "Kirkuk will be ours."
Looks like the "Bold Roll Of The Dice" turns up as snake eyes.
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