Comments on: Targeting Mutlak and Hashemi: Towards Full Political Disintegration in Iraq?

By: Seerwan

Seerwan — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 00:04:07 +0000

@Faisalkadri,

I don’t see how I’ve been inconsistent; I’ve forgotten the details regarding Dayni, but didn’t his nephew confess to the plot?

As for Hashemi, I merely asked Reidar if he thinks there is any truth to the allegation. It is near certain to be nonsense, but with the politicians Iraq has, from across the political spectrum, its not beyond them.

By: faisalkadri

faisalkadri — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 17:40:02 +0000

Kermanshahi,
Hey, Barzani owes his neck to Saddam, did you forget?

By: Kermanshahi

Kermanshahi — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 16:28:47 +0000

Hey, al-Hashemi, al-Mutlaq, al-Issawi, weren’t you guys against a Kurdish autonomous region? What are you doing running over there? Ironically, if these guys had had their way, they would be in jail now. Haha, I just can’t stop being amused at this story.

And Barzani, what are you doing? Seriously, I wouldn’t be surprised if he would have been willing to give refuge to Saddam Hussein himself. Kurds hiding Saleh al-Mutlaq and Tariq al-Hashemi? Whatever next, is he gonna give Kenan Evren refuge aswell, if Erdogan triest o press charges against him? I wonder how much King Abdullah is paying Barzani for this.

By: faisalkadri

faisalkadri — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 02:23:49 +0000

Seerwan,
You start with a conspiracy theory regarding Dainy and Hashemy then you attack Santana and Thaqalain for what you believe is theirs, then you ask Santana to be consistent. I think you need to be consistent.

By: Seerwan

Seerwan — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 19:56:53 +0000

I have been a follower of this blog for months, and Dr. Reidar you do a fantastic job.
This is the first time I will comment though, I couldn’t let it all slide this time.

@Reidar Visser – How much truth is there that Hashemi or his bodyguards had a hand in the attempted bombing?
Keeping in mind there is precedent; the perpetrators of the 2007 Iraqi Parliament bombing was MP Mohammed Al-Dayni, a senior member of Saleh al-Mutlaq’s party.

@Santana – Nice to know that you have abandoned your fantasies about Shia conspiracies – oh wait, you haven’t.
This is precisely why you barely get a single vote in the South. You live in this deluded fantasy where any Shi’i on earth has a receiver in their head where they love and unquestioningly obey Iran. I pity you.
You and your ilk cried, pissed & moaned before, during and after the US Invasion; and at the end of your drivel you state “I just hope the troops are still nearby”. You are beyond pathetic. Try to be consistent on a matter other than being positive to the idea of genocide on Shia or Kurds.

@Thaqalaian – You are doubtlessly another classic old-school Arab who is steeped in a fantasy world of conspiracy theories; like our friend Santana.
“thousands of agents blah blah” A lot of countries get US training on border control, drugs detection, etc. the backward state Iraq has been in for the last ~30 years means it requires a lot of help. It will naturally have a hell of a lot of US contractors present to train them to the latest standards.
Infantile arguements with no logic.

By: faisalkadri

faisalkadri — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 19:40:42 +0000

Helena,
I agree with your version. I think the only way the US may get back to Iraq is in partnership with other powers and under UNSC mandate. The suggestion that somehow a non-Kurdish Iraqi government will call on the US to send troops back to Iraq is not realistic. However, I think Santana hit the nail on the head when he said “Iran wants Iraq with or without Syria.”
The confrontation with Iran is now mainly economic. It will be easy to disrupt the flow of oil in Iraq and Iran. UN action will make more sense after softening the target economically.

By: Thaqalain

Thaqalain — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 16:18:35 +0000

The overt occupation of Iraq is changed to a covert one. Currently there are thousands of special agents, dirty-work squads and scores of secret intelligence cells infesting the airports, the border control agencies, the military, the security agencies and the oil fields operations. These will be supervised from the largest Bomb Proof US embassies on earth in Baghdad, Basra with close to 2500 ‘Diplomats’. Under the cover of training Iraqis on the use of newly acquired weapons, would be acquired drum-beated F-16s, the US intends to have military personnel as advisors with diplomatic immunity.

What White House funded soldiers, state department officials have done in Iraq will haunt them for years to come. Right now, Iraq is in a real mess. There is a possibility of US-manged military take over of the country and back to the good old days of ruthless Sadddam.

By: Helena Cobban

Helena Cobban — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 15:16:43 +0000

Santana, there is no chance the U.S. will intervene to do what you propose. Pres. Obama and the whole of the rest of the U.S. political elite have reframed the “Iraq question” so that it no longer has anything to do with actual Iraqis– only with the need to get U.S troops out of “harm’s way”. Mission accomplished.

By: Thaqalain

Thaqalain — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 13:47:27 +0000

There are latest reports: BAGHDAD / Aswat al-Iraq: Iraqiya bloc is trying to form a new government following withdrawing confidence from present Baghdad government, after failing to provide the simplest of service, as stated by MP Talal al-Zoba’i.

This is what we expected from US Installed and Dictated Democracy, it will be on knees soon as anything introuduced by White House is hated in Baghdad. Time is soming when we will see Baghdad will be ruled by weaker Premiers, every 2 months, there will be a new Government and real power will remain in hands of OIL CARTELS, CORPORATE & STATE DEPARTMENT will continue rule over Baghdad, they will rule sitting in Mortar Proof Embassies, hiring mercenaries and PSDs.

The Hostage and Exiled GZ Government will be a token government to fool world that White House Introduced Democratic Government is ruling OIL CAPITAL.

By: Santana

Santana — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 03:56:32 +0000

There is much more to all this than meets the eye- Iran is sending a message to the U.S that they can move Maliki as they please and cause major headaches in Iraq that would be a big embarrassment to Obama and affect his campaign and Iran is doing all this just to get the U.S to back off on Syria….this is a tradeoff, the message Iran is sending is-”you take Syria away from us and we will take Iraq”…..but the fact remains that Iran wants Iraq with or without Syria…just more so if Syria is gone.. the group headed by the Iranian puppet Faleh Al-Fayyadh that went to Syria had a great meeting with Asad and NO meeting with the Opposition- LOL….so much for Maliki’s big arbitrating role that he promised Obama with !…the Syrian opposition told Fayyadh to go to hell cuz they knew right away this Iraqi group is sectarian, sent by the terrorist Qassem Suleimani and are there to serve the Allawites and Iran….I loved the comment one of them made when he said “Tell Maliki to fix Iraq’s problems before he tries to save the world”…

If the U.S doesn’t fix this meltdown in Iraq quickly then there will be a civil war and complete chaos….this will look great when Obama explains to the U.S people how his promised withdrawl was a major miscalculation and a disaster….what is happening now is EXACTLY what many folks like me have been screaming about in Washington for two years. I just hope the troops are still nearby.