Now US Ambassador Says Civil War Could Spread Beyond Iraq…

[kpete]

Now US Ambassador Says Civil War Could Spread Beyond Iraq…

Envoy Warns of Possible Civil War in Iraq By ROBERT H. REID, Associated Press Writer
Fri Apr 7, 3:02 PM ET

BAGHDAD, Iraq - U.S. Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad warned in an interview broadcast Friday that Iraq faces the possibility of sectarian civil war if efforts to build a national unity government do not succeed. He said such a conflict could affect the entire Middle East.


Khalilzad told the British Broadcasting Corp. that political contacts among Sunni, Shiite and Kurdish leaders were improving, but that within the general population, "polarization along sectarian lines" was intensifying — in part due to the role of armed militias.

Khalilzad warned that "a sectarian war in Iraq" could draw in neighboring countries, "affecting the entire region."

"That's a possibility if we don't do everything we can to make this country work," Khalilzad said. "What's happening here has huge implications for the region and the world."

more at:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060407/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_us_2
via: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2006/04/08/now-us-ambassador-says-ci_n_18716.html

[babylonsister]

1. What civil war? Dang, I thought it hadn't started yet, per

dimson, cheney, rice, and the rest of the cabal. Now OUR US ambassador is lying?:shrug:

[BOSSHOG]

3. Everytime I see your

name I break out in song. Love your "title."

[BOSSHOG]

2. If a Civil War broke out in Iraq

and it involved other countries which would mean a whole bunch of dead Arabs, would that not be good news to "conservatives?"

Would someone please share with me what news coming out of Iraq is bad news to bush's religiously insane base.

[jwirr]

12. Well, if we should withdraw and have peace then they

could not claim this is Armageddon.

[Montagnard]

4. Zalmay Khalilzad was one of the chief architects of the war.

He should be in the dock at the Hague on charges of war crimes against humanity, not in a US Embassy.

[NNN0LHI]

6. Original PNAC signatory too n/t

[TheCowsCameHome]

5. Everything is going very well over there. Let's stop all this silly talk.

Doesn't anyone trust Bush and his military advisors?

[skooooo]

7. Freedom's on the march!

[indie_voter]

8. I am shocked. Shocked and Awed even.

This was one of the BIG reasons not to go stir up the hornets next. Turkey will get involved, Iran will get involved, Saudi Arabia will get involved.

This is a disaster on global proportions.

Thanks Neocons and irresponsible general American public who refused to listen to reason, instead indulged in idiotic French bashing (freedom fries indeed).

:mad:

[jwirr]

9. There is not doubt that both Turkey and Iran have interests

in various factions of Iraqi religious sectors. Pakistan may also be part of this. Also Russia and China have economic interests.

[MrPrax]

10. Khalilzad must have got a late memo...

Negroponte probably didn't tell the guy...

Mosque attack blast kills 79

by Mustafa Ahmed and Jay Deshmukh in Baghdad

April 08, 2006

THREE suicide bombers, two of them disguised as women, killed at least 79 people and wounded 164 as worshippers left a popular Baghdad Shiite mosque after weekly Friday prayers overnight.


BUT how many noticed this on the same day:

Suicide bomber blown up at Turkish mosque -report
07 Apr 2006 19:55:40 GMT

By Emma Ross-Thomas ISTANBUL, April 7 (Reuters) -

A woman suicide bomber was killed at a mosque in Turkey's Black Sea city of Ordu and her colleague injured when a bomb they were carrying blew up on Friday, media reports said. Two other people were also injured in the blast in the toilets of a Koran teaching facility, next to the mosque, state-run agency Anatolian said, citing police.

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Obviously the ONLY way at this point for the US to gain any credible public stance to continue 'full spectrum dominance', is to ignite a wildfire and then ramp up an expanded war by pretending to be the region's 'saviour' (pun fuckin' intended)

[cynatnite]

11. If it doesn't look like a US civil war, then it's not a civil war

:sarcasm:

[salin]

14. my thought as well... when the former PM said... it looks like a civil war

Cheney responds... is not! And public says... "whew... not yet a civil war"... oh - that was the old script no Cheney says ... is not! And public says... "shut up 'last throes' you have no credibility... looks like a civil war to us, as well."

[cynatnite]

15. Rumsfeld comes to mind for me...

"And I think until I've had a chance to think more about it and -- I will say, I don't think it'll look like the United States' civil war."

http://www.pentagon.mil/transcripts/2006/tr20060314-12644.html

[salin]

16. ah, words from the man of thousands of tactical mistakes.

[PsN2Wind]

13. Not to pick nits here

but once it spreads beyond the borders of Iraq, isn't it a regional conflict rather than a civil war?