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Iraqi Leader to U.S.: Stop Meddling

From Christoph Bangert/Polaris/NY Times

Iraqi Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari during an
interview in his office in the Green Zone in Baghdad.

Jaafari rebuffs Bush’s alleged call for him to step down, telling Washington to stop interfering in Iraq’s politics.

N.Y. Times:

BAGHDAD, Iraq, March 29—Facing growing pressure from the Bush administration to step down, Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari of Iraq vigorously asserted his right to stay in office on Wednesday and warned the Americans against interfering in the country’s political process.

Mr. Jaafari also defended his recent political alliance with the radical Shiite cleric Moktada al-Sadr, now the prime minister’s most powerful backer, saying in an interview that Mr. Sadr and his militia, now thousands strong, are a fact of life in Iraq and need to be accepted into mainstream politics.

Mr. Jaafari said he would work to fold the country’s myriad militias into the official security forces and ensure that recruits and top security ministers abandoned their ethnic or sectarian loyalties.

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By R. A. Earl, March 31, 2006 at 1:58 am #
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Now, if Mr. Jaafari had said he would work to DISBAND the country’s “myriad militias,” instead of “fold the countrys myriad militias into the official security forces,” then I would have felt a spark of optimism about the prospects for success of Iraq’s plans for peace.

But I get ahead of myself… by about 1,000 years it seems likely.

There is NO PEACE POSSIBLE, as I understand the term, if bands of armed “gang members” are allowed to exist in any society. In Iraq, as in Afghanistan, “war lording” is a time-honored profession. There’s about as much chance of eradicating this way of life as there is of eliminating that other “oldest” profession… NONE.

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By JP, March 30, 2006 at 9:25 am #
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If we’re spouting off about promoting “democracy” and then getting upset about the results—Hamas, this guy—who the heck do we think we’re kidding?

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