Israel wants US to pull out from Iraq

[bemildred]

Not getting enough attention lately, I guess.

New Delhi: Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak on Wednesday called upon the United States to reduce its forces in Iraq, saying Washington had ''made mistakes'' and its continued presence in that country would complicate the problem with fallout in the entire West Asia.

''After a brilliant military victory, America has made mistakes in Iraq...American presence will become a part of the problem after the Iraqi polls and an American failure in Iraq will have an adverse effect in the extended West Asia,'' he said in his address at the Hindustan Times Leadership Summit here.

The remaining US forces could be concentrated on Iraq's border with Jordan so that the country's ''Sunni triangle'' did not have a visible US military presence. He said the attack on Iraq was not based on a stable enough premise, that there were WMD's in Iraq.

Linking the war against terror to nuclear proliferation, he said that nuclear power in the hands of mature powers promotes stability. ''In the hands of a Kim Jong Il or Dr A.Q. Khan, it could land up with a terrorist,'' he warned. Tackling the rise of world terror would require a multi-lateral approach and the problem could not be solved by one power. He said there was no easy way to stop Iranians from going nuclear and if Iran went nuclear, it would mean loss of control.

ManoramaOnine

[Owlet]

1. Well, that's it, then....we're outta there

whatever Israel wants, Israel gets.

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2. Mr. Barak isn't even PM anymore. I think Sharon likes us just where we

are. In fact, he'd like U.S. forces in Iraq to move east and then west in one giant self-encirclement movement.