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Juan Cole Still At The Red Hot Center
http://www.juancole.com/2008/03/dozens-dead-in-basra-clashes-mahdi-army.html
IMHO, Juan Cole is at the red hot center of news and analysis on Iraq and the Middle East. I start at Informed Comment and link from there.
I wonder if we're not seeing the beginning of a decisive battle for control of Southern Iraq. Iran seems to be backing both sides for the time being.
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U.S. Strategic Interest in Iraq left Undefended?
Posted by: cognitorex on Sep 13, 2007
We and the Brits have left the oil rich part of Iraq and its vital international port for shipments, i.e. the most important part of Iraq, to Iranian influenced warring bands of Shiites.
Elsewhere our troops are attacked one hundred and seventy five times a day.
(177.8 attacks a day on troops Reuters 7.20.07)
What in the holy christ are we exactly doing there? Defending the contractors in non National Interest territory???
If we're staying in Iraq in such force to defend the Emerald Palace when we've already lost control over most areas of strategic interest, that's like defending your ego when you're in quicksand. Or like getting a boob job with the last of your cash when the Doc says you've got cancer.
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March 27, 2008 10:38 AM | Reply | Permalink
It seems to have also escaped many that Basra is part of the end of a long and dangerous exit route. While Kuwait is as well, Basra matters.
Does anyone else get the feeling that Bush and his Pentagon have been busy sawing off the tree limb on which they stand?
March 27, 2008 10:44 AM | Reply | Permalink
This is the end of McCain's credibility. They will not be able to spin this as surge success.
March 27, 2008 10:50 AM | Reply | Permalink
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