Given the long-standing US intervention in their country, and the myriad different agendas America has had when doing so, there is always a certain amount of suspicion when the US starts talking about new strategies in the country.
That’s doubly true when the US Congress announced earlier this week that it intends to recognize several factions within Iraq, including some Sunni militias, as separate “countries” for legal purposes.
Within the US, this is seen as an attempt to skirt American law and allow direct arms shipments to factions that it is flat out illegal to directly arm. Within Iraq, however, it’s seen as a shift toward the US Congress trying to formally split Iraq.
It’s not so far-fetched, either, as a number of US officials have talked up independence for Iraqi Kurdistan in particular, and the Kurds themselves have designs on secession.
The move is likely to spark an internal battle between Congress and the White House, as it undercuts President Obama’s protestations that he supports a “unified Iraq.” That’s likely minor, however, compared to the sectarian disquiet it will fuel in Iraq, where the US is seem as unpredictable and liable to just carve the country apart on a whim.
I'm smelling Sheldon Adelson and AIPAC behind this little number. It has always been Israel's policy to dismember Iraq and it remains so. Trust me, no initiative leaves the Congress concerning the Middle East apart from those of Isreali authorship. Washington does nothing on its own.
Down with US, a terrorist state. Whom do you think you are to split our countries. F*ck off from our region. Antiwar is a CIA front.
The psychopaths in control of the USG would like nothing better than to have
all factions in Iraq wipe each other out. These crooks could care less about
a human life. Their agenda is to plunder Iraq's natural resources, while the
factions are killing each other. It makes the job for these crooks easier.
What happened to sovereignty? I thought I heard Dubya and his successor in global hegemony swear that the Iraqis were a sovereign country, thanks to the largesse and benevolence of Lord Bush and Emperor Obama?
The day someone steps up and beetch-slaps the US for its arrogance is going to be an event horizon the American people will regret…mainly because I'll guarantee the reaction of the American government and their quislings will be misplaced and misguided. They will fail to understand the reasons just as they've refused to admit the reasons for 9/11 and the hatred the US has fostered – not to mention the hatred the US has earned in getting involved in things that were not our concern.