But they don’t want to divvy up their country.
And they don’t want their country to be the playground of the hostile Iranian regime.
And they want the Coalition forces to remain to buy them the time to stand on their own.
That means standing against the Iranian sponsored paramilitaries. It means asserting their soveriengty over their shared border with Iran.
It means taking into custody, as per Iraqi law, militants based on a reasonable suspicion of involvement in insurgent attacks.
Three hundred. That tells us more than enough about the Iranian regime and about the paramilitaries they sponsor with both blood and treasure. They are fueling the illegitimate fight against the freedom and newly asserted democracy of the Iraqi People.
Three hundred more in the next coupel of months would be very helpful in defending the unity of Iraq and in defending the beachhead for true reform and freedom in that part of the world. Iran’s regime won’t tolerate such reforms within its own borders and is proven to be hostile toward such reforms within the territories of its neighbors — and others in the region.
This new effort of the Coaliton, under the impetus of a new and unflinching American Commander, is very welcomed by the Iraqis and by those of us who see this as a just struggle against evil.
