Sadr group to boycott Iraq government

[danarhea]

And it goes to show just how untenable remaking Iraq as a nation really is. Since we invaded, we created a power vacuum there, and feuds which are more than 1,000 years old are raging again full steam. There will be no Iraq, which was originally a figment of British imagination when they arbitrarily drew its borders. If any stability should ever come to the region, it will be in the form of 3 separate nations, which will promptly declare war on each other. Meanwhile, more US troops are dying, losing limbs, suffering debilitating brain injuries, being blinded, and becoming sick with disease, due to the lunacy that is the Iraq War. Yes, our leaders are truly lunatics (Bush 41 didn't refer to them as the crazies in the basement for nothing), and the sooner they are gone the better.

Article is here.

 

[debate_junkie]

And it goes to show just how untenable remaking Iraq as a nation really is. Since we invaded, we created a power vacuum there, and feuds which are more than 1,000 years old are raging again full steam. There will be no Iraq, which was originally a figment of British imagination when they arbitrarily drew its borders. If any stability should ever come to the region, it will be in the form of 3 separate nations, which will promptly declare war on each other. Meanwhile, more US troops are dying, losing limbs, suffering debilitating brain injuries, being blinded, and becoming sick with disease, due to the lunacy that is the Iraq War. Yes, our leaders are truly lunatics (Bush 41 didn't refer to them as the crazies in the basement for nothing), and the sooner they are gone the better.

Article is here.

Maliki last week during a trip of Tokyo rejected demands by the US Congress for a timetable to pull out American troops, saying any withdrawal should be based on the situation on the ground.

His remarks angered the Sadr group, which on Wednesday gave its first indication it was preparing to walk out of government.

Igaili Sunday clarified that the withdrawal, which will be formally announced Monday, was only from the cabinet and that the political bloc will continue to participate in the assembly.

Sadr, a known anti-American cleric, has strongly opposed the US presence in his country since the fall of Saddam Hussein in 2003.

This is the most telling of the article, I think. The timetable, injected into the troop funding bill, played right into Sadr's hands.

The power grab is evident, yes. However, any splitting of Iraq into separate "countries" if you will, will have to be done by the Iraqi government. But then, as you said, they will declare war upon oneanother. So it seems, wouldn't it, that perhaps that region may be damned if we do, damned if we don't?

 

[Mr. X]

And it goes to show just how untenable remaking Iraq as a nation really is. Since we invaded, we created a power vacuum there, and feuds which are more than 1,000 years old are raging again full steam. There will be no Iraq, which was originally a figment of British imagination when they arbitrarily drew its borders.

Unfortunately this analysis is looking far too likely. The problem in Iraq is the problem in the Middle East. There are millions of people brainwashed by state run media, state run schools and tacitly endorsed fascists who create armies of poor, ignorant young men willing to die in the belief that it will garner them a new life free of the misery wrought in this world by their own despotic leaders.

I still hope that a free media and providing real information, and a government that will actually be accountable to the people will create some change. Unfortunately it's looking like more and more like you can't plant a rose in a sewer.