It's become a nasty joke!

24 Steps to Liberty

"Iraq's political leaders emerged Thursday from three days of crisis talks with a new alliance that seeks to save the crumbling U.S.-backed government," the AP reported earlier this morning. The "new alliance" they are referring to is between the Shiites and Kurds in the Iraqi government. And I may ask: What’s new about it? (...) The agreement talked about "the necessity of working together to succeed the political process and abide by the political process and the basics of the democratic federal system. To insure the real participation of all the political partners in power and avoid marginalization." But the new alliance did not include the Sunnis or the seculars. It just renewed what the Shiites and the Kurds have been doing in the last four years, run a dictatorship. The Kurds obviously don’t care about what is happening in Iraq because they have their own separate region. Therefore, the real leaders of the rest of Iraq are the Shiites. This is the new "democracy" in Iraq. The Kurds run their region, and the rest is for the Shiites to kill....

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