Stop your meddling, Iraqi minister tells US

[bemildred]

No sense of irony at all. I mean why is this fuckwit in office?

But seriously, who is in control in Iraq now? Anybody? Our putative stooge government is telling us to screw off.

AMID rising American frustration with the political deadlock in Iraq, the National Security Minister, Abdul Karim al-Enzy, has rebuked Washington for interfering in Iraq's domestic affairs.

In a remarkable broadside against the US, Mr Enzy charged that it was deliberately slowing Iraq's redevelopment because of a self-serving agenda that included oil and the "war on terror".

The attack came as the US Defence Secretary, Donald Rumsfeld, told a Senate inquiry in Washington that Iraq's political leaders needed "to recognise the seriousness of the situation and form a government of national unity that will govern from the centre, and to do it in a reasonably prompt manner".

To that end, US diplomats have demanded a more generous sharing of key portfolios among Iraq's religious and ethnic populations than the dominant Shiite religious parties are willing to concede.

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[stray cat]

1. Maybe we will get lucky and they will ask us to leave

[rodeodance]

2. "because of a self-serving agenda that included oil and the "war on terror

....In a remarkable broadside against the US, Mr Enzy charged that it was deliberately slowing Iraq's redevelopment because of a self-serving agenda that included oil and the "war on terror".

[Minnesota Libra]

3. This quote says it all much better than I could........

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"The truth is the Americans don't want us to reach the levels of courage and competence needed to deal with the insurgency because they want to stay here.

that skum bag in the WH wanted to be a "war pres" and wanted to make a few more millions.:grr: He wasn't about to take on a country like N Korea that was more than willing to pull out all the stops in fighting back.:scared:

Have I mentioned recently that I HATE the boy king and his bunch??:rant:

[rodeodance]

4. "a remarkable broadside against the US,"---keep em coming.

[HysteryDiagnosis]

5. What gratitude for all we've done TO THEM. n/t

[Evergreen Emerald]

6. Bush can save face and pull out despite his rhetoric

Perhaps I have been wearing the tinfoil hat too long. Sounds fishy to me.

[Warren Stupidity]

7. We have encouraged the disorder right from the start.

All of you here who think this is just about an incompetent and corrupt regime blundering in its 'mission' to bring freedom and democracy to the middle east (or whatever version of the ever changing mission you currently believe in) ought to pay attention to Mr. Enzy.

"The truth is the Americans don't want us to reach the levels of courage and competence needed to deal with the insurgency because they want to stay here.

"They came for their own strategic interests. A lot of the world's oil is in this region and they want to use Iraq as a battlefield in the war on terror because they believe they can contain the terrorism in Iraq."

As some of us have been saying for years now, - just what Abdul Karim al-Enzy said. This is our mission. We don't intend to leave.

Consider yesterday's other odd story: the Iraqi army we are training, for whatever it is worth, has no (none, zero) independent fighting ability. It can only function (when it functions at all) as an integrated part of our occupation army. Think about that.

[Rex]

8. He better watch what he says, we might have to re-invade!

Oh, we're still there? :eyes:

[rocktivity]

9. It explains why Bush has "warned" Syria and Iran

not to meddle in Iraq's affairs today. But he does have a point--he's doing enough meddling for the two of them!

:headbang:
rocknation