Coinky Dink
Aug 23rd, 2007 at 11:58 am by Susie
I can’t help but wonder - does this…
WASHINGTON - The Iraqi government will become more precarious over the next six to 12 months and its security forces have not improved enough to operate without outside help, intelligence analysts conclude in a new National Intelligence Estimate released Friday.
Despite uneven improvements, the analysts concluded that the level of overall violence is high, Iraq’s sectarian groups remain unreconciled, and al-Qaida in Iraq is still able to conduct its highly visible attacks.
“Iraqi political leaders remain unable to govern effectively,” the 10-page document concludes. A copy was obtained by The Associated Press in advance of its release Thursday.
… have anything to do with this?
BGR, the firm started by Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour, has been promoting Ayad Allawi, the one-time Iraqi interim prime minister who over the weekend published an op-ed in the Washington Post calling for the parliamentary overthrow of current PM Nouri al-Maliki. The piece amounted to a trial balloon for American support for a second Allawi-led government, promising non-sectarianism and stability. Allawi has decades-old ties to the CIA, making him a known quantity to U.S. officials during a time of extreme frustration with Maliki.
Ngo Dinh Diem - here we go again. They found their plan in a Graham Greene novel.
Allawi will have the role of The.
I lived through this once, I don’t need an encore.
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