Remember those purple thumbs? The Iraqi people exercised their sovereign right, returned to them by the US, to choose their leaders without outside influence or internal pressure.
Nope.
The Empire and The Party (expressed through Inner Party Member Senator Carl Levin, Chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee) has decided that it's time for Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki to go. So take your purple thumbs and stick them somewhere, voters.
The problem, no doubt, is that Maliki, wishing to end the rivers of blood that characterize the US occupation, has invited Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to Iraq to discuss ways to do so. That is not allowed, says the US. (Remember how US puppet in Afghanistan Karzai was smacked down hard earlier this month by the Bush Administration for suggesting that Iran has played a constructive role in the region?)
Who to replace him...hmmm...? How about former US-appointed prime minister Ayad Allawi, who timed his re-entry on the political scene perfectly with this editorial on Saturday demanding that Iraq (meaning the US) take a much harder line on Iran and Syria. "The United States is indispensable to peace and security in Iraq and the greater Middle East," writes Allawi, as he cannily suggests that the US should reduce its "combat role" in Iraq. Allawi here is no doubt echoing the Democrat position of "re-deployment," which is another word for "onward into Iran."
Sorry Iraq. Sorry Iran. The Party has spoken. War coming.
