Secrets of the U.S.-Shiite Alliance

Robert Dreyfuss

The wrongheadedness of the Bush administration's current posture on Iraqi politics -- throwing its hands up and muttering about the Sunni-Shiite conflict -- is that the United States, since March 2003, has clearly sided (and heavily so) with the Shiite side. That would be the death-squad-sponsoring, Sharia-imposing, militia-harboring, Iran-sympathizing Shiites. And now, more than three years later, Ambassador Khalilzad is shocked, shocked to find that the Shiites have militias? (...) If the Shiite militias are carrying out massacres, it's the Bush's administration's responsibility...

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