Unfortunately, the war in Iraq is taking a new turn for the worse. The invasion and destruction of Lebanon and the attack on Shia Hizbollah is having a terrific impact among the Shia in Iraq. The Iraqi Shia helped the Hizbollah get started, especially the Dawa party. Al-Sadr is making hay and will become an even greater problem than he already is.
30% of the oil in Iraq is smuggled and then turned into weapons by the Shia. The Sunnis are meanwhile being funded by the Saudis and others.
We are not only caught in the middle of a civil war in Iraq, we are caught in the middle of a regional struggle between Shia and Sunni. This is just what Bushco wants, as it sets up war with Iran, without protest by the Sunni Arab states.
Bushco seemingly wants Iraq split in three, Shia, Sunni and Kurds. Three weak states, with war continuing against the Sunni in the Sunni Triangle. Meanwhile, the US and UK continue to sit on the oil, while the civil war makes oil production impossible in Iraq AND Iran.
That's just what Big Oil wants, so that's what Bushco is giving them.
The only problem is that the war in Lebanon is going to make the Shia militias fight the UK and US forces in the South, even the Brits are letting the Shia ethnically cleanse Basra of Sunnis. You can just feel that everything is going to unravel soon.
In Iraq, dozens of volunteers helped enlist Iraqis willing to fight along Hezbollah guerillas in Lebanon at a Shiite party headquarters in the southern city of Basra. The party's Secretary General Yousif al Mousawi said about 200 people signed up within two hours on Wednesday night.
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Not disarming the militias was a deal with the devil. It was a real mistake. Can you imagine that in the occupation of Germany or Japan? Hah! Now we are being drawn into the Hell we signed up for in blood.
I maintain it was not incompetence, it's deliberate because they want the oil to stay in the ground for as long as they can. That's why the Bushies in Reagan funded both sides in the Iran-IRaq War in Eighties. War destroyed the equipment in Khuzestan, where Saddam invaded--and where 90% of the oil in Iran is. It's still a wreck to this day.
If Iran and Iraq were fully producing, you would have an extra several million barrels a day and oil would be around $40-$50 a barrel or lower.
Now you know the real Bush-Cheney plan. Not to pump the oil but sit on it (then pump it later at a high price).
So in Iraq they will now just hang on to the forts and permanent bases they have along with the Green Zone. We will fight sometimes with the Sunnis against the Shia in the upcoming hot civil war, and sometimes with the Shia against the Sunni. Bush is even letting a war start between Turkey and the Kurds.
The Iraq War is lost. The occupation will now just be a holding action, trying to hold on to the Green Zone, the airport, the oil fields and the permanent US bases. Revenge strikes against towns from the air can be expected and photo-ops for the press to report the light is at the end of the tunnel again. But we are already in the end-game of the war. It is already getting difficult to keep the troops supplied, never mind the pathetic Iraqi forces, which are not even given their own heavy artillery or tanks!
The whole thing is a Bushco scam to keep the oil in the ground. Once you realize that, everything else makes sense.
I think the real Iraq War is starting now. We have to get out the real facts on the 30% oil smuggling for weapons, the ethnic cleansing of the Sunnis we are allowing in Basra and Bagdhad and elsewhere, the loss of the hearts and minds of the Iraqis, etc.