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2004-12-09 Iraq-Jordan

Yawar sees 1-year end to Iraqi insurgency

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Posted by Steve 2004-12-09 9:48:43 AM|| || Front Page|| [2 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Article: al-Yawar said it was a mistake to disband the Iraqi military.

But of course - if the military had been left intact, the Sunni minority would hold absolute power, perhaps with the Sunni al-Yawar as president-for-life.

Posted by Zhang Fei 2004-12-09 10:04:36 AM|| [http://timurileng.blogspot.com] 2004-12-09 10:04:36 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 I saw al-Yawar on Charlie Rose last night and he convinced me he is the type of guy who should be in high public office in Iraq. Rose threw at him all the LLL arguments about the war and he shot every one of them down. Not only that, he told Rose to "...record this. We will never, never go back to one-man rule." Never droned and complained about Haliburton, plastic turkeys, etc. He was only forward looking and reiterated how much he wants Iraq to join the free world. US action in taking down Saddam is like when we took down Hitler. Iraqis consider Americans in this light. ETC. Only positive, anti-MSM, information. Many good things about Syria and Iran. He knows who the trouble makers are and wants to get rid of them, dead or alive.

Only slight negatives were his disagreeing with disbanding Iraqi military because it threw out the baby with the bathwater, but he didn't express bitterness or sarcasm. Also would have preferred more proportional force in Fallujah, but, again, not a contestation of cleaning the place up. Kind of like on a scale of 1-10, he scored it a 9 (My interpretation) Non-violent democratic action is the only solution, and all communities there understand that. What's there to complain about?

Summary: We're turning the corner. Nothing will stop elections. MSM is only paying attention to the small, small proportion of the Iraqi population that consists of Baathist dead-enders.

So, ZF, I respectfully disagree with your comment. This guy only came back in April, 2003, gave up his business career to become president (thus putting a big bullseye on his back, BTW), and is not a confidant of the Saddam's military henchmen. He just thinks it would have made better security sense to have left the military intact, but get rid of bad apples.

Posted by chicago mike 2004-12-09 12:49:51 PM|| 2004-12-09 12:49:51 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 cm: This guy only came back in April, 2003, gave up his business career to become president (thus putting a big bullseye on his back, BTW), and is not a confidant of the Saddam's military henchmen. He just thinks it would have made better security sense to have left the military intact, but get rid of bad apples.

I guess what I'm pointing out is that there are large numbers of would-be Saddams in Iraq. Saddam came to power not because he supported his predecessors, but by killing them. There is no league of evildoers in Iraq - just a bunch of independent operators who have seen Saddam (and his predecessors - including all of Mesopotamia's kings) - in action and have thought to themselves - hey, I could do that job. There are many Iraqis fighting US forces who don't support Saddam - they just want to be king.

Posted by Zhang Fei 2004-12-09 3:49:52 PM|| [http://timurileng.blogspot.com] 2004-12-09 3:49:52 PM|| Front Page Top

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