Bush’s Escalation: Doing The Militias’ Dirty Work For Them?

Think Progress

The latest National Intelligence Estimate’s key judgments reached the same conclusion that the Center for American Progress reached last October: that Iraq was worse than simply a civil war because there are at least four major internal conflicts ongoing. The NIE identifies Muqtada Al-Sadr’s Mahdi Army as one of the "very effective accelerators" of Iraq’s civil war. Reporting from Baghdad, Tom Lasseter of McClatchy Newspapers said that many American junior officers are convinced that the Bush military escalation in Iraq will actually hand over portions of Baghdad to Iraqi security forces infiltrated by the Mehdi Army...

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