Iraq bleeding, says US envoy (Khalilzad)

[sabra]

http://www.news.com.au/story/0,10117,18547619-23109,00.html

Iraq bleeding, says US envoy
IRAQ was "bleeding" three years after the US invasion and militant groups were battling to exploit the country's power vacuum, the US ambassador to Iraq said overnight.


The US envoy, Zalmay Khalilzad, said there was not a civil war but that Iraq was in a "difficult situation" while politicians struggled to form a national government that would boost the campaign for stability.

"The country is bleeding. Iraqis want their leaders to rise to the occasion, to form a government of national unity," Mr Khalilzad said in an interview with US network ABC's World News Tonight.

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"This is a particular period of vulnerability," he said.

"The terrorists who are seeking to provoke a civil war find the particular circumstances now - which is there is no government of national unity - a particularly good period for them to exploit the vacuum that exists."

[teryang]

1. We're bleeding out too

The lifeblood of the republic is spilling out in arterial pulses while the media go on with business as usual inane pandering drivel.

[daleo]

2. Iraq's bleeding because Bush stabbed it.

And Cheney shot it, Rummy speared it, Powell bludgeoned it, etc.