The Iraqi Government Doesn't Exist

Michael Schwartz, writing for tomdispatch, makes a simple case for the nonexistence of the Iraqi government we have spent so much to create.
A government needs coercive power to enforce its rules, an administrative structure to deliver services and directives and resources to do both. The Iraqis, according to Schwartz, are o for 3, possessing not a single one of the necessary attributes.
And that is just one of the "Seven Facts You Might not Know About the Iraq War". And might not want to know.
These are like the dispatches that were issued as the British and French navies pursued the Bismarck to her doom. Only this time we're the Bismarck.
Read this one, Oh Best Beloved. It is lucid, plausible and , as is usual with fare of this quality coming out of Iraq, indicates that things really are worse than we thought. Again.
In the circumstance we can only recommend that you
Stay Naked
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