Things Unsaid at the Petraeus Hearings
by Ivan Eland
Not only has America failed to confront these Shiite militias, the Bush administration has been enabling them. The congressional hearings failed to bring out, because of administration intention and Democratic ignorance, that Maliki’s security forces are infested with Shiite Badr Brigade militias that Iran prefers over the Iraqi nationalist Mahdi Army. The confused milieu of Iraq, an administration with no coherent strategy to improve the conditions in that country, has always tried to......
http://www.newswithviews.com/guest_opinion/guest117.htm
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http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Ivan+Eland
Not only has America failed to confront these Shiite militias, the Bush administration has been enabling them. The congressional hearings failed to bring out, because of administration intention and Democratic ignorance, that Maliki’s security forces are infested with Shiite Badr Brigade militias that Iran prefers over the Iraqi nationalist Mahdi Army. The confused milieu of Iraq, an administration with no coherent strategy to improve the conditions in that country, has always tried to......
http://www.newswithviews.com/guest_opinion/guest117.htm
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Petraeus
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Shiite+militias
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Maliki
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Mahdi
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Ivan+Eland
rudkla - 28. Apr, 08:42
