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"We support the Iraqi government's efforts to disarm militiamen but we also advise (it) to avoid confronting people," ISNA news agency quoted an unnamed official as saying.
Yadda yadda blabla. In other words: "We let our goons lie low, if you won't molest them... so we can let them loose at a later point with better circumstances for us."
Iran wants to disarm Iraq because they are banking on a US troop pullout in the next year and want to make any military campaign that much easier.
Ri-i-i-i-i-i-i-i-i-i-ght.
Well, if they said so, it must be true. At least, the Democrats will believe it.
Some U.S. technical assistance may be useful, but for 5 years we have been telling the Iraqis how to construct a political and legal system, how to elect their leaders, who should occupy which cabinet posts, who should be their prime minister, how to develop and allocate their resoureces, how to organize and regulate their economy.
Stop! Iraqis know far better than we what makes sense for them. When administration officials and members of Congress, with their advisors -- whose knowledge of Iraq is often very recent, shallow, and wrong -- hector and lecture the Iraqis who are struggling to find a way forward, it becomes readily apparent that the Bushies have learned nothing from their past blunders.
we also advise (it) to avoid confronting people[suggested response] "We support the efforts of the Iranian people to institute a representative form of self-government by peaceful means, but also advise them to kill all the mullahs and members of the so-called Revolutionary Guard."
You do not have any say about how Iraq governs itself. Iraq is a separate, sovereign and FREE nation, unlike yours.
Get out of there or face the consequences.