The largest political party representing Iraq's Sunni Muslim minority announced Monday that it would drop out of the Jan. 30 election, dealing a fresh blow to the vote's credibility on the same day the top Shiite Muslim candidate survived a car bombing.
The withdrawal of the Iraqi Islamic Party, combined with the assassination attempt on cleric Abdul Aziz Hakim, heightened concerns that the parliamentary election may produce a lopsided result, further alienating Sunni areas where the armed insurgency is growing.
Civil War.
posted by Jo Fish on 12.28.04 at 10:06 AM
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It's been clear since about 1945 that Iraq would break up into its three natural constituent parts unless an outside force (or a dictator)held it together. Every analyst in Washington who specialized in the Middle East knew it before we went to war. It was so fucking well know and so obvious, that nobody questioned it. Then along comes Bush and the Neocons.
posted by: OldVet on 12.28.04 at 11:31 AM [permalink]
There was a popular desk plaque for corporate executives back in the 1960s: "Plan Ahea.. d".
Bush Jr. and Rumsfeld's desks may be so adorned.
posted by: Shag from Brookline on 12.28.04 at 03:46 PM [permalink]
