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]]> By: Hot Air » Blog Archive » Iraqi interpreter to Totten: “Nuke Iraq”; Update: Maliki must go, says Time http://hotair.com/archives/2007/05/20/flashback-steven-vincent-on-the-disintegration-of-basra-in-2005/comment-page-1/#comment-621925 Hot Air » Blog Archive » Iraqi interpreter to Totten: “Nuke Iraq”; Update: Maliki must go, says Time Tue, 07 Aug 2007 19:20:47 +0000 http://hotair.com/archives/2007/05/20/flashback-steven-vincent-on-the-disintegration-of-basra-in-2005/#comment-621925 [...] WaPo’s got a sneak preview today of what post-withdrawal Iraq might look like. The case study is Basrathree months ago; Steven Vincent, the art critic turned war correspondent, saw it coming two years ago and got a bullet in his head for his trouble. Follow that last link, by all means, and see what the Brits’ “sensitivity” about looking like occupiers produced. From WaPo: But “it’s hard now to paint Basra as a success story,” said a senior U.S. official in Baghdad with long experience in the south. Instead, it has become a different model, one that U.S. officials with experience in the region are concerned will be replicated throughout the Iraqi Shiite homeland from Baghdad to the Persian Gulf. A recent series of war games commissioned by the Pentagon also warned of civil war among Shiites after a reduction in U.S. forces… [...] [...] WaPo’s got a sneak preview today of what post-withdrawal Iraq might look like. The case study is Basrathree months ago; Steven Vincent, the art critic turned war correspondent, saw it coming two years ago and got a bullet in his head for his trouble. Follow that last link, by all means, and see what the Brits’ “sensitivity” about looking like occupiers produced. From WaPo: But “it’s hard now to paint Basra as a success story,” said a senior U.S. official in Baghdad with long experience in the south. Instead, it has become a different model, one that U.S. officials with experience in the region are concerned will be replicated throughout the Iraqi Shiite homeland from Baghdad to the Persian Gulf. A recent series of war games commissioned by the Pentagon also warned of civil war among Shiites after a reduction in U.S. forces… [...]

]]> By: Pablo http://hotair.com/archives/2007/05/20/flashback-steven-vincent-on-the-disintegration-of-basra-in-2005/comment-page-1/#comment-411695 Pablo Sun, 20 May 2007 18:10:51 +0000 http://hotair.com/archives/2007/05/20/flashback-steven-vincent-on-the-disintegration-of-basra-in-2005/#comment-411695 <blockquote>No word on what the prognosis is or who’s likely to replace him; needless to say, a more ambitious, bellicose party leader could make things boil over with Sadr and/or change the equation of Iranian influence inside the country.</blockquote> The book on that is about 9 months, though obviously his mileage may vary. <blockquote>Early Sunday, al-Hakim left the U.S. for Iran, where he will receive chemotherapy treatment, the officials said on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the subject.</blockquote> I've heard far better ideas than that.

No word on what the prognosis is or who’s likely to replace him; needless to say, a more ambitious, bellicose party leader could make things boil over with Sadr and/or change the equation of Iranian influence inside the country.

The book on that is about 9 months, though obviously his mileage may vary.

Early Sunday, al-Hakim left the U.S. for Iran, where he will receive chemotherapy treatment, the officials said on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the subject.

I’ve heard far better ideas than that.

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