Wisconsinites: "Out of Iraq"
Today, a couple dozen cities in Wisconsin voted on referenda demanding immediate withdrawal of US forces from Iraq. It attracted "front page" headlines from Google News. Here is the Reuters article as well. Neither are stable, I suspect.
posted by Breathing at 11:32 PM
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I agree with Juan Cole, professor of history at the University of Michigan (bold is mine): "I think the big U.S. footprint in Iraq is counterproductive, and I think we should get our ground troops out of there. But I don't think there should be a complete and rapid disengagement with nothing to replace us. I think there should be a United Nations command in Iraq, and that the United Nations should be a vehicle for getting maybe some Arab League troops in there. The guerrilla movement sees itself as fighting two enemies. One is the foreign troops, the Americans and so forth who have overthrown the Baath Party and demoted the Sunni Arab elite to the lowest of the low in that country and have promoted what they see as Shiite ayatollahs and Kurdish warlords to power. This is not acceptable to the Sunni Arabs, so they want the U.S. out. But they also want those Shiite ayatollahs and Kurdish warlords out. And, were the United States not there, were there no foreign military forces to be there, then they certainly would go after them." This is from http://www.metrotimes.com/editorial/story.asp?id=8917 I strongly recommend reading it!
Well, there is always the Baath Party. They seem to be running things anyway. I'm sure if we gave them a quarter of our budget for Iraq and split with the rest, they would be overjoyed.
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