John Bolton: Trump Silence on Iran-Dominated Baghdad Invasion of Kurdish Iraq ‘a Tragedy’

Breitbart News ^ | 10/16/2017 | Ian Mason

[huldah1776]

Former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton spoke to Breitbart News Daily Sirius XM host Alex Marlow Monday, coming out strongly in support of Iraqi Kurdistan in its bid for independence and criticizing American ties to the Iraqi national government, which he described as “dominated by Iran.” “I support independence for the Kurds in Iraq. It’s no surprise the State Department opposes that. I think the State Department and the Pentagon are still operating under the assumption you can put Iraq back together again, and you can’t,” Bolton told Marlow.

Bolton condemned America’s putative ally in Baghdad as a sectarian force under the spell of Iran. “The Baghdad government is Shia-dominated and dominated, worse than that, by the mullahs in Tehran,” he said.

The autonomous regional government of Iraqi Kurdistan, in a controversial move, held an independence referendum last month that passed by overwhelming margins among the region’s ethnic Kurdish majority. The sizable Arab and Turkmen minorities largely opposed the move and the government of Iraq and the other regional powers of Iran and Turkey immediately threatened intervention if Iraqi Kurdistan declared independence. The American State Department also condemned the vote with spokeswoman Heather Nauert saying, “We have been very clear from the beginning that we oppose that referendum because we thought it would be destabilizing.”

[kabar]

This is what a real Kurdistan would look like:

Is it any wonder that Turkey, Iran, Syria, and Russia will never let it happen? The dream of an independent Kurdistan has been around for over 100 years.

I remember the havoc caused by the militant separatist Partiya Karkeren Kurdistan (PKK), or Kurdistan Workers Party in English, in Turkey and it continues to this very day despite the PKK being outlawed in Turkey. The PKK was infiltrated by Marxists. Anyone familiar with the history of Kurdish nationalism in Turkey and Iran will understand that an independent Kurdistan could threaten the very existence of Turkey as currently exists. It could descend into a violent civil war within Turkey.

[mac_truck]

I don’t think Bolton is being sincere about his expressed desire for an independent Kurdistan.

He wants Iraq broken up, he wants Erdogan’s power in Turkey to be checked, he wants Iranian hegemony in the region curtailed.

The Kurds are just a means to an end for that agenda.

[bgill]

He didn’t tweet about the price of beans in China today, either. If he speaks out about something, he’s slammed for it. If he doesn’t speak out, he’s slammed.

[RideForever]

Kurds are Sunni Muslims. They are surrounded by Shi’ite Muslims. The two sects will kill all non-Muslims, then turn against each other as the ‘true’ Islam. So it’s not a civil war. It’s a religious war.

[huldah1776]

I think this silence means something is really amok and TOO TOO complicated for a tweet. LOL

So when the President is quiet. WE SHOULD BE PRAYING.

[Western Phil]

You are leaving out a bunch of history. Bush 1 needed to take care of Iraq, but he quit before it was done. We didn’t give him the chance and Clinton did nothing because of his peace dividend and other interests. It was copiously documented that Saddam supported World Trade Center 1, supported and celebrated 9-11, kept and hide proscribed materials. The UN weapons inspectors were finding almost something of everything when Saddam kicked them out in 1998.

Had we not deposed Saddam, it is my opinion that he would have had a nuclear bomb well before Iran and North Korea.

[AndyJackson]

he quit before it was done

Everyone who thinks that falls into the same trap as the neocons. GHWB was done. He kicked the Iraqis out of Kuwait and destroyed the Iraqi army. The anything more a lot of people keep asking for is falling into the same trap of trying to fix the middle east, the rathole that GWB, Cheney and the neocons led us down.