Iraq War: It Will End in Humiliating Defeat for Bush Regime

by jo swift at 11:59AM (CEST) on April 15, 2007
There are three overlapping wars in Iraq: the Sunni Arab guerrilla struggle against the US;

strands of Sunni Arab guerrillas against assorted Shi'ite militias/death squads;

and al-Qaeda in Iraq against the puppet, US-backed Iraqi government in the Green Zone.

Make it four wars: the Sunni Arab guerrilla war against the government inside the Green Zone.

Better yet, make it five wars: the Sadrists, from Sadr City to Kufa and Najaf, against the Americans.

All strands of these five overlapping wars will never allow the United States - or Anglo-American Big Oil - to control Iraq's oil wealth.

Even if the new oil law is ratified by Parliament before June, implementation will be a certified nightmare, and security for billions of dollars of necessary investment non-existent.

Strands of these five overlapping wars also will never accept the long-term imposition of vast US military bases under a Status of Forces Agreement negotiated with dodgy politicians who spend more time in London than in Baghdad.

Setting a precise date for a total US withdrawal - the crystal-clear demand insistently formulated by Muqtada al-Sadr - would be the only way for the Bush administration to salvage a modicum of not totally humiliating defeat.

Instead, the world had better be ready for the imminent arrival of the Baghdad gulag.

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