Bill Bradley:
What you don’t understand is that Maliki is close with Iran. Ahmadinejad was received rapturously by the Iraqi government when he visited Baghdad.
The fighting was between religious factions.
Oh my goodness.. I’m shocked!
I evidently understand a lot more about what is going on in Iraq and between Iraq and Iran than you do. The fighting in Basrah was between Iraq’s military which is not a religious entity and the Sadr militia who was seeking to take control of Southern Iraq on Iran’s behalf. In Basrah it was clear that Iran was not fighting the American occupiers, they were fighting the Iraqis.
I can understand how difficult it can be to actually see the developments in Iraq clearly when you have to meld them with the Democratic agenda. What I’m interested in though, why is there this race between the Democrats who want to throw Iraq to the wolves and the Iraqis who want to live in freedom?
