Iran and Turkey Slam US-led Coalition Over Instability

[MaverickX]

Iraq's neighbors, Turkey and Iran, told the US-led coalition that ousted Saddam Hussein and now occupies the volatile nation that it must do a lot more to restore law and order there.

The warnings came as the remains of top UN envoy to Iraq, Sergio Vieira de Mello, killed last week in a suicide bomb attack in Baghdad, arrived in Geneva ahead of his burial in the Swiss city.


Protestors in Istanbul demonstrate against recent violence in northern Iraq . Violence in the northern oil-rich Iraqi city of Kirkuk in recent days occurred between pro-Turkey Turkmen and Kurds and resulted in various deaths. (AFP/Mustafa Ozer

And a delegation of Iraq's interim Governing Council arrived in Jordan on the latest leg of a so-far failed tour to try to persuade reluctant Arab states to formally recognize the body appointed by the occupying forces.

Iran's warning to the US-led coalition came in response to an assassination bid on Iraq's Grand Ayatollah Seyed Mohammed Said al-Hakim, one of the country's four leading Muslim Shiite clerics, that left three dead.


http://www.commondreams.org/headlines03/0825-02.htm

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1. That can't be right!

Lil George and his Media Sycophants* kept telling us that this little exercise in American imperialism would have stability bustin' out just all over the Middle East, and democracy would be an unstoppable force to replace the immovable object of Islam, and all the kids would have good dental check-ups.

Those people in Iran and Turkey must have it all wrong!

*Lil George and his Media Sycophants would be a very cool name for a band.