.'It's Pointless to Deny Ongoing Civil War in Iraq'
The ethnic and sectarian conflict in Iraq fails to be successfully named, while Iraq enters its fourth year under American occupation.
Despite the constant refusals of both the United States and British administrations to accept that there is a civil war in the country, former Prime Minister Iyad Allawi responded by saying that, "If this is not civil war, then God only knows what a civil war is."
It will not benefit anyone to make the problems Iraq is currently facing appear less important than they really are, Allawi told the BBC.
"We have to admit that we are right in the middle of a civil war, lamentable though it may be. About 50 to 60 people are being killed every day," said the one time prime minister, after he pointed at his early warnings against possible gaps in authority. Allawi also stressed that Iraq is moving towards the point of no return, at which time the nation might become fragmented.
US Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld wrote an article for the Washington Post, in which he argued that Iraq is not in the midst of a civil war.
The defense secretary said: "The terrorists realized that they were losing the war. They are, therefore, trying to make the sectarian conflict in Iraq into a civil war. If the United States began to pull out from Iraq right now, it would be like giving Germany back to the Nazis after World War II."
US Vice President Dick Cheney, disagreeing with Allawi, said Iraq is not under threat of a civil war.
Some are seriously determined to create a civil war in Iraq, Cheney claimed on CBS.
Iraqi President Jalal Talabani also defied the former prime minister’s concerns about an imminent civil war.
On Sunday, 15 people were killed, and 30 were injured in attacks across Iraq amid debates over whether or not there is a civil war in the country.
Zaman
H/T Ladybird
Despite the constant refusals of both the United States and British administrations to accept that there is a civil war in the country, former Prime Minister Iyad Allawi responded by saying that, "If this is not civil war, then God only knows what a civil war is."
It will not benefit anyone to make the problems Iraq is currently facing appear less important than they really are, Allawi told the BBC.
"We have to admit that we are right in the middle of a civil war, lamentable though it may be. About 50 to 60 people are being killed every day," said the one time prime minister, after he pointed at his early warnings against possible gaps in authority. Allawi also stressed that Iraq is moving towards the point of no return, at which time the nation might become fragmented.
US Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld wrote an article for the Washington Post, in which he argued that Iraq is not in the midst of a civil war.
The defense secretary said: "The terrorists realized that they were losing the war. They are, therefore, trying to make the sectarian conflict in Iraq into a civil war. If the United States began to pull out from Iraq right now, it would be like giving Germany back to the Nazis after World War II."
US Vice President Dick Cheney, disagreeing with Allawi, said Iraq is not under threat of a civil war.
Some are seriously determined to create a civil war in Iraq, Cheney claimed on CBS.
Iraqi President Jalal Talabani also defied the former prime minister’s concerns about an imminent civil war.
On Sunday, 15 people were killed, and 30 were injured in attacks across Iraq amid debates over whether or not there is a civil war in the country.
Zaman
H/T Ladybird
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