Here we go again. The USA no sooner leaves Iraq with its mercenary terrorists and the arms start to flow.

On December 19, (click title to entry - thank you) the day after the last U.S. troops left Iraq, Prime Minister Nouri al- Maliki announced an arrest warrant for Vice President Tariq al-Hashimi, a Sunni leader. With the departure of U.S. troops, "leaders like Maliki are seeing how far they can push their power," says Ned Parker, CFR's Edward R. Murrow press fellow. Parker, who recently served as the Baghdad bureau chief for the Los Angeles Times, warns of political chaos ahead in Iraq. The political battle between Maliki and Hashimi, he says, underscores how the different sides have failed to agree on a new social contract. Parker adds that even though the United States still has influence in Iraq, it appears loath to use it. "The only thing that, perhaps, will push all sides to compromise is the fear of chaos," he says....


Sending arms into Iraq is nothing short of ethnic cleansing.  In recent statements, Maliki accused the Kurds of giving protection to Vice President Tariq al-Hashimi.  To begin, the Kurds are members of Iraq's citizens, they may try to bring the Vice President to justice for all Maliki knows, but, that is not what Maliki stated.  He stated the Kurds were providing the Vice President with protection.


In one act of aggression, Iraq's Maliki estranged the Sunnis by attempting to arrest the Vice President immediately after that last American soldier was out of Iraq's Borders and then imperiled the Kurds as treasonists for harboring a state criminal.  A state criminal that was never given the benefit of due process or representation by attorneys and judged through impeachment for his crimes before his legislative peers.


The entire scenario reeks of a coupe by Maliki and the beginnings of ethnic cleansing, but, the USA turns a blind eye to the fact and allows for national forces to be better armed.  It is setting the Iraqis people up for violence for a long time and Maliki another Saddam.


Already the Iraq constitution and elections means nothing and the only item of importance for the USA post exit are the Wall Street dividends.  The sales of arms are legislated by CONGRESS.


We don't belong in Iraq, we never did!


BUSINESS  AS  USUAL !!!!!!!

UNITED STATES ARMS SALES TO IRAQ: EXCERPTS OF RECENT CBS `60 MINUTES' BROADCAST 
(House of Representatives - January 31, 1991)

The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. Owens of Utah). Under a previous order of the House, the gentleman from Wisconsin [Mr. Moody] is recognized for 5 minutes.

Mr. MOODY. Mr. Speaker, on Sunday, January 20, the CBS television network program `60 Minutes' broadcast an extraordinary interview with an international arms dealer, Sarkis Soghanalian, who lives in Miami. I am placing in the Record a transcript of key excerpts from that interview.

The revelations and allegations made by Mr. Soghanalian are, and must be, extremely disturbing to every American. They are disturbing to Mr. Soghanalian. He gives a first-hand description of official and unofficial American involvement in the enormous buildup of arms to Saddam Hussein. Much of this buildup occurred after the end of the Iran-Iraq war in 1988. He gives chilling accounts of the cozy relationship among high past and present U.S. Government officials who permitted, and in some cases, actually assisted his sales of many of the lethal weapons Saddam Hussein is now using to bring death to American military personnel and civilians throughout the Middle East region.

I congratulate the staff of `60 Minutes' for bringing this explosive matter to the attention of the American public. Executive producer Don Hewitt, producer Lowell Bergman, and on-air reporter Steve Kroft have raised profound questions in this piece that demand further investigation....


The end of the Iran-Iraq war in 1988 was overseen by then President Ronald Reagan.  The 1988 elections placed George H. W. Bush in office.