Shiites

Iraqi politics: A circle from Iran to Iran

Photo credit:  A handout picture released by the acting Iraqi Prime Minster’s Office shows newly-appointed Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi (R) meeting with the Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi in Baghdad (AFP)
 
 
 

 The new Prime Minister Haidar Abadi needs to bring independent Sunnis to power and have them shoulder responsibility for security and nation-building – this is the only way to prevent them from one day tilting towards the ISIS

 
 

The Mess in Iraq – An Analysis by Lawrence Davidson

 The truth is that George W. Bush and his accomplices are war criminals chargeable with the same indictment brought against the German and Japanese leaders after World War II. I am not talking about genocide, as that was not the charge against these leaders. I am talking about the waging of unnecessary and offensive war – launching an invasion without proper legal cause. Today’s mess in Iraq is a direct consequence of that same sort of criminal act.

 
 
 
 
 by Dr. Lawrence Davidson