Iraq .. Civil war or division: report Stewart: Adoption of failure and regret
4.6.2013 | (Voice of Iraq) - Add Comment - News Views: 38 -
Report: Zuhair Dujaili Qabas: (on the occasion of the tenth anniversary of the invasion of Iraq) the
U.S. administration issued a lot of reports about failing to achieve the reconstruction in Iraq after the invasion in 2003, and their inability to lift the country out of the abyss despite the fall of Saddam Hussein, but The report prepared by Inspector General Stuart Bowen (released last week) was recognition of a terrible failure, and involves remorse large, and grief over the loss of $ 66 billion has swallowed oblivion with the passage of time.
Iraq remains gaping wound Linz in the hearts of U.S. officials who still have traded accusations with including, whenever the worsening economic situation, and the more complicated relations between the White House and Congress.
failed task
synchronization Stewart report, entitled 'Lessons from Iraq: the task failed, with the tenth anniversary of the occupation of Iraq, and two years after the withdrawal. It also coincided with a severe economic crisis by reducing spending and lay off hundreds of thousands of employees. This involved report on many of the certificates U.S. and Iraqi officials alike, as if he wanted so to prove the charges, and confirmation of failure and uphold remorse for what has happened.
Although administration officials are showing themselves sometimes divided and different opinion on what the «task invasion of Iraq» of failure and bad results, but everyone talking - mostly - with regret for the loss of hundreds of billions of dollars on a war that ended to leave the country «in the hands of the devil», also said the Washington Post.
«unable to dissuade Maliki»
among the dozens of certificates contained in a The report, says former U.S. Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta «The inability of the administration of President Barack Obama on the conclusion of an agreement with the Iraqis provides for the consolidation of U.S. military presence in Iraq after 2011 deprived the U.S. of exercise significant political influence there. When we had the influence of military and political before that year we were able to bend the Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki to take «bad decisions», and urged him to get out of the abyss, but the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Baghdad at the end of 2011 caused a reduction of the capacity of the United States to form events there ».
favor diplomacy does not conceal the truth
and although the remarks the U.S. ambassador in Baghdad to press Iraqi appear positive opinion is not without bias diplomacy, and different from what he says Panetta, navigate the American press a lot of views of American officials who have come to consider the situation in Iraq dire, They say that «Iraq fell into the abyss of sectarianism. This discrepancy between Baghdad and Washington may not be important to actually open, and in front of the growing sense in the White House that there is bad decisions is taken Maliki make Iraq a sectarian failed.
well as the report reveals that the Iraqi officials who contributed to Washington in their arrival to power did not show any interest in projects concerning reconstruction. And that Washington was suffering from the lack of «joint committee» including play seriously in the success of these projects.
Vassador former U.S. in Baghdad, Ryan Crocker, says in his testimony «The biggest problem faced Washington was the failure to get real support from the Iraqis, to continue major projects .. This was the main failure to ensure their support for us .. They were during their meetings with us are satisfied nod their heads, and in fact they were not interested in the projects that we are talking about .. This thing was repeated also in Afghanistan. (Crocker work in Afghanistan after Iraq).
exaggeration has a price
report does not devoid of explicit criticism of the spirit of exaggeration of America's role in Iraq. And those statements characterized by excessive exaggeration in depicting «Iraq Typical .. Will become a model for democracy in the Middle East, and other exaggerations.
example, says Deputy Secretary of State William Burns in the report «The U.S. administration greatly exaggerated planning to do everything in Iraq, the American way. They quickly discovered that Americans are no longer welcome to our survival there.
Failure to welcome the American people to war and their troops to stay in Iraq was one of the most important reasons for public support for the election of Obama, who declared in his manifesto rejected war, and pledged to pull out and finish the job. But the report describes this withdrawal be like to leave the country suffer devastation, and spent money, particularly on the reconstruction of Iraq had no effect, and much like the loss is enormous.
Adm. David: a lot of money and few benefits
results were not as report sees fit with what was spent War, or the so-called «Iraq reconstruction projects. Spending was great still the U.S. economy is suffering from the brunt, but the results are less remember, the more money swallowed by corruption.
says retired admiral David Nash, who was responsible for the budget reconstruction of Iraq «The allocations were initially up to 18 billion dollars, but the real spending arrived about the 66 billion, but the results in the end it was below the level of this amount is much ».
goes on Nash said «various budgets allocated for the advancement of the Iraqi security forces and repair networks and water purification and distribution, and other less useful than the desired».
certificates and many confessions explicit failure to carry the report, and all point to finish the job in Iraq was more like a beta including housing, and leave it unchanged, and worse than it was filled with dirt and debris. The report did not forget to refer to what I said earlier reports on investigations on corruption charges, and the loss of nearly 9 billion, there are no documents showing how spent during the reign of Paul Bremer (the first governor of the U.S. administration in Baghdad).
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