ICG REPORT STATES "IRAQ ON BRINK OF TOTAL DISINTEGRATION"

[Jcrowley]

Iraq on brink of collapse: report
12-19-2006, 17h19
BAGHDAD (AFP)


Iraq is on the brink of total disintegration and could drag its neighbors into a regional war, a leading think-tank said, after the Pentagon confirmed violence was at an all-time high. The warning from the International Crisis Group came amid lawless chaos in Baghdad, where police were hunting for 16 kidnapped aid workers and a former minister who escaped from jail, allegedly with the help of US hired guns.

The ICG's report called on Washington to distance itself from Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki's beleaguered government, which has failed to tackle sectarian militias, and reach out to the United States' arch-foes Iran and Syria.

The permanent members of the UN Security Council and Iraq's six neighbours should engage with all the parties to Iraq's spiralling conflict, it urged, while nevertheless holding out little prospect of success. "Implementation of the various measures mapped out in this report is one last opportunity. It is at best a feeble hope," the ICG paper said.

"But it is the only hope to spare Iraq from an all-out disintegration, with catastrophic and devastating repercussions for all," it warned.

http://www.turkishpress.com/news.asp?id=155989

I suspect Herr Bush hasn't mentioned this in his little propaganda gathering.

[seemslikeadream]

1. Did he mention this?

Caliphate, Bush's timeline, and the 500 year war.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=116x13646

[EFerrari]

2. Robert Fisk read off all the authors in the report

that were from the Brookings Institution. ("He was the one that brought you weapons of mass distruction".) "And, Thomas Friedman, The New York Times."

:rofl:

He was devastating. It was a keynote at the annual Muslim Public Affairs Council as reported on "Democracy Now!"