Iraqis say Bush's puppet government is trying to incite a civil war. I think they are right

[NNN0LHI]

http://www.khaleejtimes.ae/DisplayArticle.asp?xfile=data/focusoniraq/2006/November/focusoniraq_November230.xml§ion=focusoniraq

‘Civil war? Call it what you like, we’re scared’: Iraqis

(AFP)

28 November 2006


<snip>They accused Iraq’s political leadership pushing a sectarian agenda that can only lead to more intense conflict between the armed Sunni and Shia factions launching mortar barrages and bomb attacks in the divided capital.

“The Sunni and Shia politicians are trying to drag the country into a civil war using the militias and gunmen who are spreading here and there,” said Kadhim Saleh, a Shia writer living in Baghdad. snip

Yasir Al Khattab, a Shia doctor in a private Baghdad hospital, also blamed faction leaders for deliberately seeking to divide Sunnis from Shias in order to reinforce their own political positions.

“I don’t think there is a civil war, but there is a plan to drag the country into a civil war. There are parties trying to do that. We as simple people have no idea of what is being planned,” he said. snip

Nevertheless, many areas of the city feel victimised by militias and government security forces carrying out killings along sectarian lines.

“It’s a one-sided civil war,” complained Qais Al Adhami a 40-year-old Sunni civil servant who is at home hiding from the violence.

“The Shia militias are in control of Baghdad, along with the Iranians who are supplying them with weapons,” he said, calling on the United States to replace Shia Prime Minister Nuri Al Maliki with an emergency regime.

[eviltwin2525]

1. The solution

Here's the last remaining hope for an acceptable outcome in Iraq: we (the U.S.) offer to surrender, to pay $250 billion reparations up front, and $125 billion a year for the next eight years, and withdraw by the end of 2007. Here's the catch: we will only surrender and pay to a stable, legitimate, secular, federal Iraqi government, and will cut off the payments if that government ceases to be stable, legitimate, secular or federal.

Think about it. A trillion-and-change is what it's going to cost us to STAY in Iraq over that same span, and without the slightest hint we would produce a government that meets ANY of those criteria, let alone ALL of them. So this plan is money well spent, since we get to come home, they get to say they beat us, and we get to greenmail their government for a decade for what we were going to blow there, anyway.

Oh, and we turn over Bush, Cheney and Rummy to the Hague for war-crimes trials.

[NNN0LHI]

2. One small problem. If we stop stealing the Iraqis oil and somehow...

...they figure out a way to be able to get the oil proceeds distributed equitably to their citizens the Iraqi people could all be living large.

They don't need our money. They just need us out of there. We have no bargaining power.

Don

[Junkdrawer]

3. Divide and conquer....

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=364&topic_id=2817028&mesg_id=2817028