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April 21, 2007

"Time is Irrelevant"
Posted by Ilan Goldenberg

More promising signs from Iraq.  Apparently the plan is for American troops to be there forever while Iraqi politicians haggle over the spoils of the country.

Hasan Suneid, a lawmaker and adviser to Maliki, said the Iraqi government would like to see both the oil legislation and de-Baathification proposal pass, but at their own pace. "These demands are already Iraqi demands," he said. "The most important thing is to achieve discussion of these plans. Time is irrelevant."

Meanwhile, via Kevin Drum and Laura Rozen it looks like training Iraqi security forces is also in trouble.

On Thursday the Pentagon abruptly blocked a group of mid-level officers from testifying before Congress about their personal experiences working with Iraqi security forces.

So, to recap.  Two of the key pillars of the American strategy - training Iraqi forces and forging a political solution - are both going nowhere.  The Iraqi government is under the impression that it has unlimited time.  And according to the President the "plan" is going along smoothly.

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I would like to say the Iraqi army consisted of both shias and sunnis even if the elite forces were sunni, and their total disbandment is widely seen as one of the crucial Bremer errors, so to dismiss this as "not worthy of nostalgia" begs the question as to what value you put on US service personnel's deaths and injuries, and those of the the Iraqi populace, let alone the resulting expenditures.

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