Iraqi government wants to end occupation
By Libby
Damn if it wasn't really about the oil the whole time. All this talk about US petitions in wingville today but not a word anywhere about a legislative petition signed by a majority of the Iraqi government "calling on the United States to set a timetable for withdrawal." This is no sectarian conflict. The battle lines here are drawn between nationalists who want to hold their country together and separatists backed by the US who want to break it up.
The separatists want to divy it up into three pieces, giving the Kurds the north that they already effectively own, the Shia affiliated with Maliki get the oil rich south and the Sunnis get the worthless part in the middle including the troubled Anbar province. The sticking point for months in the negotiations has been the oil and natural gas contracts. Finally the point of the surge becomes clear.
We're not staying to give Maliki a chance to build a unity goverment. We're buying time with the blood of our troops and the bleeding of our national treasury to give him time to accrue enough power to force a split.
Correct if I'm wrong here but I seem to remember a time when that was considered a really bad outcome by our "serious" war hawking experts. That is if your intent was to form a unity government. If your intent was controlling the oil on the other hand... well, isn't partitioning easier?
In any event, the Iraqi government isn't as do-nothing as we've been led to believe. Maliki holds a minority position right now and if not for the complicity of the US media, more Americans would realize that the only ones who want the occupation to surge, are Dear Leader and his cronies.
Damn if it wasn't really about the oil the whole time. All this talk about US petitions in wingville today but not a word anywhere about a legislative petition signed by a majority of the Iraqi government "calling on the United States to set a timetable for withdrawal." This is no sectarian conflict. The battle lines here are drawn between nationalists who want to hold their country together and separatists backed by the US who want to break it up.
The separatists want to divy it up into three pieces, giving the Kurds the north that they already effectively own, the Shia affiliated with Maliki get the oil rich south and the Sunnis get the worthless part in the middle including the troubled Anbar province. The sticking point for months in the negotiations has been the oil and natural gas contracts. Finally the point of the surge becomes clear.
We're not staying to give Maliki a chance to build a unity goverment. We're buying time with the blood of our troops and the bleeding of our national treasury to give him time to accrue enough power to force a split.
Correct if I'm wrong here but I seem to remember a time when that was considered a really bad outcome by our "serious" war hawking experts. That is if your intent was to form a unity government. If your intent was controlling the oil on the other hand... well, isn't partitioning easier?
In any event, the Iraqi government isn't as do-nothing as we've been led to believe. Maliki holds a minority position right now and if not for the complicity of the US media, more Americans would realize that the only ones who want the occupation to surge, are Dear Leader and his cronies.
posted by Libby Spencer at 10:02 PM
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