US seeks action on Shia death squads

[ECH1969]

Military leaders take the Iraqi Prime Minister to task for not tackling coalition radicals linked to killings

HIGH-RANKING US military officers have expressed frustration with the Iraqi Government because of its failure to confront corrupt officials and death squad leaders who have infiltrated Iraq’s security forces.

A series of unprecedented comments by US officers indicated a growing anxiety over whether Nouri al-Maliki, the Iraqi Prime Minister, would confront his two biggest Shia coalition partners, including the radical cleric Moqtada al-Sadr and the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq (SCIRI). Both have been linked to death squad killings.

One US military official, who has knowledge of national operations, said that Mr Maliki had cancelled plans to sweep Baghdad’s Sadr City, the bastion of Hojatoleslam al-Sadr’s al-Mahdi Army militia, at the start of this week.

A high-ranking Iraqi security official told The Times that pressure from Shia politicians had forced the Iraqi Army to stop fighting the al-Madhi Army this month in the southern city of Diwaniyah. Such political pressure had also stopped Iraqi Army operations against militias elsewhere, he said.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,11069-2378845,00.html

[The_Casual_Observer]

1. Unlike the US military, Maliki is tired of killing Iraqis.

[ECH1969]

2. The Madhi Army doesn't kill Iraqis?

[The_Casual_Observer]

4. Just maybe he sees the futility of killing more of them.

After all, it hasn't done any good for the last 3+ years, it is however, the only answer the US military has.

[ECH1969]

5. He is keeping the Iraqi Army from dealing with the sectarian violence

Which means he is supporting mass murdering Islamic militia men.

What would you say if the Christian Coalition made a militia and started killing Jews by the dozens and the US government did nothing about it?

[The_Casual_Observer]

6. The Islamic militias were allowed to flourish as a result of a totally

inept american occupation. As you recall, Sadr's army won a decisive victory against the occupation forces a couple of years ago, at which time the US was forced to allow Sadr to remain on the loose.

The fact is that short of genocide the occupation can't do anything about the militias but stand on the sidelines and wring their hands. The US generals are full of shit, they tried & failed to do anything
at a time when it was 10x easier to do something. It's too late now.

[NOLADEM]

3. Reminds me of The Princess Bride

"Get outta hea, before I call the brut squad." -Miracle Max

"I'm on the brut squad." -Fezzik

"You are the brut squad." -Miracle Max



But seriously, the men in the Iraqi Army are one of two types of people...

1. Militia sympathiazers/associates/members
2. Dead men. (and the soon to be)


They will NEVER truly help us, unless it suits their needs.

[Thickasabrick]

7. Why would they want to help us? After what we've done to their

country, I can't see anyone; Shia or Sunni, wanting to help the US do anything.

[NOLADEM]

8. Absolutely.

And that is the reality that needs to sink in to those trying to salvage America's "victory" in Iraq. Those that we are forced to rely on to call our endeavor a success have no incentive to help us and every incentive to oppose us. Namely, patriotism of defying the occupier, self preservation in the face of certain assassination if you help the Americans, religious brotherhood, defeating a zioist proxy, teaching a lesson, on and on.

And you rightly say "Why would they want to help us?" and I cannot think of a single reason.

[LynnTheDem]

9. World seeks action on US death squads.

But of course we're ubermenschen so we get to kill whomever we wanna.