Nathan
The Times of London. More liberal sources. Look, none of us need to look very hard for liberals smearing their leftis views all over everything. It's everywhere we look.
You forgot this part:
His group will not advise “partition”, but is believed to favour a division of the country that will devolve power and security to the regions, leaving a skeletal national government in Baghdad in charge of foreign affairs, border protection and the distribution of oil revenue. (Hmmmm....sounds kind of like a republic to me.)
And let's bold some relevant bits here:
They have finally noticed that the country is being partitioned by civil war and ethnic cleansing is already a daily event,” (Oh, no hyperbole there! Not at all.) said Leslie Gelb, former president of the Council on Foreign Relations.
Gelb is the co-author with Senator Joseph Biden, a leading Democrat, of a plan to divide Iraq.
Speaks volumes.
Nathan