>>>”I will never be able to figure out why we took a country which was actually quite secular by that time and replaced a garden variety dictator with the most dictatorial system of all. We made that country safe for our mortal enemy, Islam.”
Paul Wolfowitz et al might be able to shed more light.
Personally, I always believed that if we really wanted to focus on ‘war on terror’, we should’ve gone for the Islamic Republic of Iran in the first place.
Sources in the Iraqia List said that Iraq’s former prime minister Iyad Allawi had strongly disagreed with a senior U.S. delegation during his talks held in the Kurdish city of Irbil. According to the sources, the Americans insist on Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki’s stay in office. The sources conveyed in a statement that the U.S. delegation, which is currently visiting the country, ahead of a visit by the U.S. national security adviser, offered Allawi to become President of the National Security Council, after the legislation of a special law on its formation, in return for keeping al-Maliki as the head of the next government.
According to the sources, Allawi has strongly refused the American offer, saying his list was entitled to form the next government as it emerged as the biggest bloc in March 7’s elections.
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