Ghaith Abdul-Ahad of The Guardian has a great profile of Hajji Abu Abed, one of the anti-government insurgent commanders who we're now paying to not shoot at American troops and to at least claim that whoever his men do shoot are al-Qaeda.
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Abu Abed
11 Nov 2007 11:22 am
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In fairness, this can both simultaneously be both a kleptocracy of warlords who rule by whim and abuse their people, and still be better than how things were by nature of abusing people less than Al-Quieda in Iraq was abusing.
And, for all the talk about settling scores with the Shia militias, that doesn't mean the walk will be walked.
Still, very eye-opening.
For the two idiots commenting above, I suggest you read the piece.
At one point, he's threatening the Vice President of Iraq, at another point he's threatening to pull his troops away from the US, and at another he's been told his men are worse than Al Qaeda and he then proceeds to prove it.
In reality, if he only has six hundred men - and that's probably an exaggeration to drive up his extortion total from the Americans - there are bigger tribes in Iraq and eventually the biggest ones will be in charge. Basically Iraq will be just like Afghanistan - a "Northern Alliance" of a number of large warlords, the Pashtun Taliban, and a bunch of other factions of lesser importance.
In Iraq, it will be the Dulaimi tribe plus a few others in the Sunni areas, vs the SIIC and the Mehdi Army in the Shia areas, with the two Kurdish parties holding the north - and fighting the Turks.
And for this, we want to keep US troops in Iraq for at least another five or ten years, at a cost of $8-10 billion a month.
And there still won't be more than two million barrels of oil going out of Iraq, let alone three to six.
Right - brilliant plan.
Morons.
At one point, he's threatening the Vice President of Iraq, at another point he's threatening to pull his troops away from the US, and at another he's been told his men are worse than Al Qaeda and he then proceeds to prove it.
So? He's getting the job done, and that's what matters.
Unlike liberal anti-war loons.
That's a classic. That will be in the compilations of reportage from Iraq. Dennis Johnson or Don DeLillo could have written that. Not that I think it was made up.
The aptly named "shitsmear" gives us a good idea of the basic thinking behind the current Iraq strategy.
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Heads in the Sand
So your complaint is that we've got him to stop shooting at Americans?
Typical liberals.
Posted by shitsmear | November 11, 2007 11:55 AM