U.S. military: Iraqis unprepared for refugees

[Lone_Star_Dem]

Source: New York Times

Return to divided Baghdad could reignite sectarian violence, U.S. officers fear.

BAGHDAD, Iraq — As Iraqi refugees begin to stream back to Baghdad, U.S. military officials say that the Iraqi government has yet to develop a plan to absorb the influx and prevent it from setting off new sectarian violence.

The Iraqi government lacks a mechanism to settle property disputes if former residents return to Baghdad and find their homes occupied, the officials said. And it's not clear whether Iraqi authorities will be able to provide aid, shelter and other essential services to the thousands of Iraqis who might return. U.S. commanders caution that if the return isn't carefully managed, there is a risk of undermining Baghdad's recent security gains.

"All these guys coming back are probably going to find somebody else living in their house," said Col. William Rapp, a senior aide to Gen. David Petraeus, the top U.S. commander in Iraq.

"We have been asking, pleading with the government of Iraq to come up with a policy so it is not put upon our battalion commanders and the ISF (Iraqi security force) battalion commanders to figure it out on the ground," he added.

Read more: http://www.statesman.com/news/content/news/stories/world/11/30/1130iraqrefugees.html

[asjr]

1. This administration needs to be impeached for

the sheer amount of chaos they have unleashed on the world, especially Iraq. God knows there are many other reasons.

[fed-up]

2. the US invades (shock & awe) and occupies, then expects Iraqi's to foot the clean-up wtf???

[mlevans]

3. well, considering the Bush administration

did not properly prepare for the war in the first place, why on earth would it prepare for its inevitable consequences? It's been FUBAR from the very beginning.

[Spazito]

4. Hmmm, it seems to me the bush cabal/US military are already

setting the stage for blaming the Iraqis for renewed violence rather than admit the "surge" didn't work.

In another article, the US military admits it has been lying about the number of civilian deaths, the military's numbers being much lower than those reported by the Iraqis but the US military, after admitting they have been lying, want us to believe their lies instead of the truths being told by the Iraqis.

My bet is they know all hell is about to break loose again and they are preparing the groundwork to blame it on the Iraqis for not continuing the "success achieved by the surge".

Disgusting, imo.

DU thread on the other article:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x3083906

[tuckessee]

5. Shouldn't it be the other way around?

The US military is unprepared for the refugee crisis they created.