It Only Took 1 Day...

[duane1969]

Just one day after US troops were pulled from Iraq the old Sunni-Shia division that has plagued the region for thousands of years has already reared it's ugly head in Iraqi politics...


Iraq's Shiite prime minister told Kurdish authorities Wednesday to hand over the Sunni vice president, who fled to the semiautonomous region to escape an arrest warrant on charges he ran hit squads targeting government officials.

The charges, leveled a day after the last American troops left Iraq, have opened up a new round of the Shiite-Sunni sectarian tensions that pushed the country to the brink of civil war just a few years ago.

Tariq Al-Hashemi, the country's highest-ranking Sunni political figure, said Monday the allegations by his longtime rival Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki are fabricated and politically motivated. He accused al-Maliki of concentrating power in his hands and torpedoing national reconciliation between Sunnis and Shiites.

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"We ask our brothers in the Kurdistan region to take responsibility and hand the wanted person over to the judiciary," Maliki told a press conference.

"If they will not hand him over or let him flee or escape, this will lead to problems," the premier added.

Anybody want to place a bet on how long until the region is back into a civil war and innocents are being killed?

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/45750262/ns/world_news-mideast_n_africa/#.TvIbRHpmmSo

[angel0430]

I have the feeling that we are going to invade Iraq again a couple of years...**sigh**

[texansrangerfan73]

Just one day after US troops were pulled from Iraq the old Sunni-Shia division that has plagued the region for thousands of years has already reared it's ugly head in Iraqi politics...



Anybody want to place a bet on how long until the region is back into a civil war and innocents are being killed?

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/45750262/ns/world_news-mideast_n_africa/#.TvIbRHpmmSo

Sorry to sound rude or hateful but better them than our U.S. troops!

[duane1969]

Sorry to sound rude or hateful but better them than our U.S. troops!

I don't take that wrong at all. I agree. I am tired of our guys getting killed for people who do not care. This is a prime example of it. We spent 10 years and trillions of dollars there and lost over 5000 of our troops...it took them less than 48 hours to get started going back to the way it was before.

[mrveggieman]

You know before the us invasion iraq actually had a stable gov't. Sadaam wasn't the prettiest or nicest leader but at least they had some type of stable gov't. Now they have nothing but chaos and confusion. I hope that the war mongers are happy with themselves. SMH.

[theonedru]

I don't take that wrong at all. I agree. I am tired of our guys getting killed for people who do not care. This is a prime example of it. We spent 10 years and trillions of dollars there and lost over 5000 of our troops...it took them less than 48 hours to get started going back to the way it was before.

We spent 10 years and trillions of dollars there and lost over 5000 of our troops..... Fixing our mistake of putting Saddam in power, we never learn when we stick our noses where it doesnt belong and it blows up in our face. It will be more innocent blood on our hands

[pghin08]

You know before the us invasion iraq actually had a stable gov't. Sadaam wasn't the prettiest or nicest leader but at least they had some type of stable gov't. Now they have nothing but chaos and confusion. I hope that the war mongers are happy with themselves. SMH.

He was still a ruthless dictator that brutalized his own people. What good is stability then?

[mrveggieman]

He was still a ruthless dictator that brutalized his own people. What good is stability then?


So now instead of having 1 dictator and a steady gov't in iraq we have no stable gov't, people are getting slaughtered left and right with no where to turn for assistance. Tell me again how is that any better than what they had under sadaam?

[pghin08]

So now instead of having 1 dictator and a steady gov't in iraq we have no stable gov't, people are getting slaughtered left and right with no where to turn for assistance. Tell me again how is that any better than what they had under sadaam?

The sectarian violence in Iraq has been around forever, it still went on under Saddam.

[mrveggieman]

The sectarian violence in Iraq has been around forever, it still went on under Saddam.


Agree but now it is 1000x worse since they have no real form of gov't. The US was so quick to throw it's weight around not look at the mess that they created. SMH.

[theonedru]

Agree but now it is 1000x worse since they have no real form of gov't. The US was so quick to throw it's weight around not look at the mess that they created. SMH.

That happens everywhere the US sticks its nose, look at South America and the 10's upon 10's of thousands of peoples that have been killed because of US interference in various governments, America as a whole is so totally ignorant these situations its horrible.

[duane1969]

You know before the us invasion iraq actually had a stable gov't. Sadaam wasn't the prettiest or nicest leader but at least they had some type of stable gov't. Now they have nothing but chaos and confusion. I hope that the war mongers are happy with themselves. SMH.

I don't know how stable I would call it. There were several coup attempts, a few million massacred residents and several border wars during Saddam's reign.

If by "stable" you mean anyone who spoke out was executed, then OK, it was stable.

If by stable you mean the residents were happy with their government, the neighboring countries trusted Iraq and Iraq had a good international relationship...then no, they were not stable.