"Under heavy American pressure, the Iraqi government ordered two Iranians who had been detained in an American military raid to leave the country, Iraqi officials said Friday, ending a bitter, nine-day political standoff," reports The New York Times. Can you say untenable situation? The Bush administration (like Joe Lieberman) wants backing the Iraqi government to somehow be an anti-Iranian measure.
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Sweet Sovereignty
31 Dec 2006 03:18 pm
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The hypocrisy of the American government is amazing. One moment, with the execution of Saddam Hussein, they say that Iraq is a sovereign nation. The next minute, when it comes to dealing with a couple Iranian diplomats, they are telling the Iraqi government - correction puppets what to do. And they wonder why people hate America?
Matt, fix the broken link to Lindsay Beyerstein's page already. It's now
http://http//majikthise.typepad.com/majikthise_/ (notice the "http//" in the middle of the URL, where it has no business belonging?) Replace that link with http://majikthise.typepad.com/ and let Lindsay get the sweet link lovin' she so richly deserves.
Oh, and happy new year.
Sounds like micro-management of an occupation to me.
It looks like the United States is treating Iraq like Israel treats the United States.
This proves three things: (A) that the Bush administration is walking on eggshells with the "democratic" government of Iraq, trying not to offend their Shi'ite sensibilities; that (B) the Iraqi government is looking less and less like a US client state, because they're able to influence the behavior of the US (i.e. by not letting the US ship the Iranians to Gitmo); and (C) the US isn't as hot-and-bothered about Iran as their public posture would indicate (otherwise we would have shipped the Iranians to Gitmo for "interrogation", and the Iraqis and Iranians be damned).
Frankly, these actions bespeak a US administration that knows it's losing the game, and, worse yet, hasn't a clue how to play rare good cards that it occassionally gets dealt.
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Heads in the Sand
The detention brought the increasingly strained relationship between the Iraqis who run this country and their American backers to one of its lowest ebbs.
riiiggght...can you spell "puppets"?
Posted by supersaurus | December 31, 2006 4:08 PM