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Iraq's Future

 
 
nutella23
15:37 / 23.09.02
I am unequivocally now against this war:

Regime Change

From the article:

General Nizar Al-Khazraji

According to many human rights groups, he is the field commander who led the 48 -hour chemical weapons attack which poisoned and burned 5000 Kurdish civilians in the northern town of Halabja in March 1988. He also, alleges one credible eyewitness who testified in video-taped evidence earlier this year, kicked a little Kurdish child to death after his forces entered a village during the height of the Iraqi repression in 1988.

But, says Ambassador David Mack, a senior official in the US State Department who co-ordinates meetings of Iraqi opposition groups in Washington DC, General Nizar al-Kharzaji has "a good military reputation" and "the right ingredients" as a future leader in Iraq.

The most senior military officer to defect since 1990, al-Khazraji was Saddam's chief of staff from 1980 until 1991, leading the army through the eight-year Iran-Iraq war and the invasion of Kuwait in 1990. He left Iraq in 1996 and was granted politcial asylum first in Spain and then in Denmark, where he now lives in a quiet suburb of Copenhagen. There are claims he was reluctant to leave Iraq, but that the CIA tempted him with promises of a major political role after the overthrow of Saddam. As a result, he has not been quiet about his plans to lead Iraq: he once described is future leadership as a "sacred duty".

The other contenders are equally terrible. It figures, it just fucking figures.
 
 
Naked Flame
16:05 / 23.09.02
Thanks for the info. It figures, doesn't it?
 
 
nutella23
16:49 / 23.09.02
Thanks for the heads-up on brackets, I think I'm finally getting the hang of this html thing.

I should have known better than to accept any reasoning from this adminstration on its foreign policy actions. Been looking into Ritter's claims and they seem pretty valid, as far as chemical and nuclear signatures are concerned and why we shouldn't be listening to the Bush adminstration's reasons for going to war. The Iraqi people have suffered enough, and I for one am not going to allow my tax dollars to be used in support of further brutalization. Forgive my rant, but I've had it. If you look around the US today, and ask most people what's foremost on their minds, mostly you'll find concerns about the economy, jobs, prescription drug coverage, social security, Medicare, education...pretty much everything BUT another war with Iraq. Another distraction from a failed domestic policy (or lack thereof). Bush is not listening to the American people, never mind the rest of the world. So much for democracy in Iraq. So much for democracy in the US for that matter.
 
 
We're The Great Old Ones Now
17:12 / 23.09.02
I'm particularly amused by 'Sacred Duty', given that that probably would mean an appeal to ... er ... Islamic nationalists in Iraq ...
 
  
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