Bush's high-risk civil war scam

[CHIMO]

In the past few months, as the world watched Iraq turn into a quicksand for the US-led occupation forces, the Bush administration has been busy promoting a false image of a civil war in the country, apparently as a pretext to perpetuate its occupation.


Far from a civil war, what is really happening is a determined popular uprising against foreign forces.

The situation in Iraq is inexorably heading towards a major crisis; this despite a sham transfer of sovereignty by the Coalition Provisional Authority to a captive government led by Dr Iyad Allawi on 30 June 2004.

Until recently, the uprising against the US occupation was more or less confined to what is called the Sunni Triangle; it has now spread to the Shia dominated areas in Baghdad, and central and southern Iraq.

http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/68184A67-1FF9-43D8-93C8-751BE89BACDC.htm

[The_Casual_Observer]

1. led by Dr Iyad Allawi

Dr. Iyad isn't leading anybody. Dr. Iyad is a clerk that is being led.

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2. Nice piece. nt

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

3. But it'll be a holy war

Jus' like 'em crewsayds.

[Zero Division]

4. Actually I've wondered if the Bush admin. is trying to ensure a civil war

in Iraq as either an excuse to leave or as some kind of crazy strategy aimed at getting those now fighting US forces to fight each other more often. Yes, I've heard about the 14 bases that are apparently being built, which would suggest long term plans for the US military in Iraq. However, I can still easily imagine the Neo-Cons in the admin. justifying a push toward civil war by saying it leaves the Iraqis fighting themselves rather than the US. The elections that exclude significant portions of the Iraqi population, which Rumsfeld seems rather fond of, certainly look like an attempt to help (I say "help" because honestly I think civil war is a high probability no matter what happens in Iraq.)push Iraq into a civil war faster.