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......
https://www.newswithviews.com/guest_opinion/guest117.htm
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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......
https://www.newswithviews.com/guest_opinion/guest117.htm
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Petraeus
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Shiite+militias
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Maliki
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Mahdi
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Ivan+Eland
rudkla - 28. Apr, 08:42
