More for U.S. to Do in Iraq, Official Says

[sabra]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,,-5661372,00.html

More for U.S. to Do in Iraq, Official Says

WASHINGTON (AP) - Days of bloodshed between religious sects in Iraq show that the United States still has work to do to achieve a new, broadly representative Iraqi government, a top State Department official said Friday.

Sectarian attacks and reprisal killings that began with the bombing of a revered Shiite mosque are troubling, but do not necessarily portend further violence or civil war, James Jeffrey, senior adviser for Iraq to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, said in an Associated Press interview.

``It indicates that the path to national reconciliation and the path to a national compact that we're striving so much for has a ways to go,'' Jeffrey said. ``It means we better continue working and work harder on it.''

Jeffrey said that al-Qaida leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi is the ``likely suspect'' in the mosque bombing, although he said there is no clear evidence of that. He added that although neighboring Iran is trying to increase its political pull among Iraq's factions, ``we see no specific line that leads you directly to Iran in any of what happened in the last week and a half.''

[Jacobin]

1. Yes, indeed

[MadMaddie]

2. Yea...get the US troops out of Iraq and get them home!!

[Barrett808]

3. Yup, more Iraqis to kill.

Because killing more Iraqis will solve all of Iraq's problems.

[RufusEarl]

4. Let them assume!

Jeffrey said Al-Zarqawi suspected "But we have no proof" Iran suspected "But we have no proof"

So i guess they'll just make shit up, and hope it sticks. Perhaps the USA are the guilty party, in Iraq violence?

[wookie294]

5. What about violence in other parts of the world?

Violence exists everywhere, including Kashmir which we never hear about on the news. Why are 130,000 U.S. troops supposed to solve problems in Iraq, but not in other countries? Why is Iraq so special?

BTW, there is nobody named Zarqawi in Iraq. Get over it. Bring the troops home NOW.

[teryang]

6. What hubris, one failure after another, wasted treasure and lives..

Achieving a broadly representative Iraqi government is a fig leaf for a catastrophic policy failure.

Lose a war, lose power. Ancient rule of politics.