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Iraqi counsel's opposition to new troops

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  • 15-10-2003 2:53pm
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    Sleipnir
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    I wonder if the Bush administration are in the planning stages to have the current INC replaced after this!



    The US-appointed Iraqi National Council has declared its opposition to US efforts to get other countries to provide soldiers to help its occupation of Iraq. Speaking at a news conference at the Organisation of the Islamic Conference summit in Malaysia, members of the council said they were seeking a formula under which Iraq would take charge of its own security as soon as possible. The US and INC have been in dispute since Turkey offered to send soldiers to help the US/British occupation of Iraq. Turkey has long been an enemy of Iraq's large Kurdish minority and the council has expressed fears that it could try to interfere in Iraqi affairs.


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    shotamoose
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    They're also opposed to the wholescale privatisation of Iraqi services and industry, but it's not like Paul Bremer and co are listening.


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    Éomer of Rohan
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    Brian Feeney carried an interesting related article regarding this in today's Irish News (think it was Feeney!). The Iraqi Council have had one member killed by the freedom fighters / terrorists / insert jingoist title here and they are associated with US-UK occupational forces and policies whether they support them or not.

    An interesting parallel was drawn between Zimbabwe and Iraq and the accession to power of Robert Mugabe after a referendum in which 96 % of the black population was not allowed to vote. His predecessor was associated with the policies of the outgoing regime and was promptly overthrown even though his politics differed.

    This Kiss of Death has been applied to the Iraqi Council - if I were one of them, I would be begging for more troops because British and American troops are the only hope that they have to remain alive in the current climate, never mind in power. It demonstrates that should the US remove her own troops and Britain follow suit, Iraq will either split it's three seperate ways and disappear into Saudi, Iran and Kurdistan-piece-of-land-just-destroyed-or-annexed-by-Turkey or it will be reunited under another dictator - the US are forever tainting democracy in Iraq by setting up a pseudo-democratic body with no real roots in the populace and no support from the army - a puppet regime in fact.


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