Our Common Struggle
America had its civil war. Why expect freedom to come easy to Iraq?
BY NOURI AL-MALIKI
Wednesday, June 13, 2007 12:01 a.m. EDT
BAGHDAD, Iraq--Americans keen to understand the ongoing struggle for a new Iraq can be guided by the example of their own history. In the 1860s, your country fought a great struggle of its own, a civil war that took hundreds of thousands of lives but ended in the triumph of freedom and the birth of a great power.
It really wasn't that long ago when Maliki and his american neocon supporters, were laughing out loud in my face, and calling me a hopelessly kool-aid drunk partisan, for saying that Iraq was in a civil war.
Now he and his neocon buddies are admitting it?
I think I've been right about virtually everything for four years. And, I've been called a traitor for making statements and predictions that came true.
Honestly, I find if laughable that the neocons and maliki are pretending that all this was expected. That, all along, they have been realistic about Iraq, about the civil war, about the sectarian spiral of death.
These are fine and admirable words form maliki. Unfortunately, he's irrelvant in iraq. He has no power or influence. The government is just a collection of rival militias, and he's just a figurehead.
