PUNK ROCK REPUBLICAN

‘Prominent Member Of Awakening Movement Arrested In Iraq’
By Caesar Ahmed and Ned Parker for The Los Angeles Times.

Even granting that it’s silly season in Iraq as it gears up for its next set of national elections – Charging anybody in Iraq with the murder of Al Qaeda members seems like an awfully clumsy means of cutting off a budding Sunni politician at the knees.

Especially when one considers that the Iraqi Awakening Movement under which Mustapha Kamal Shibeeb committed the so-called murders was in alliance with U.S. troops when he did them.

Is this the mark of an Iraq so provincial that its domestic politics trump any common international sense or an Iraq looking to forge stronger ties with its neighbor Shiite Iran in anticipation of the coming U.S. troop withdrawal?

Is this spitting in the face of the United States or a realization that the U.S. is too weakly led to even bother?

While Iran is the strong horse.

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