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Don't Believe the Propaganda - The Sectarian Myth of Iraq June 18, 2014 " ICH " - " The Guardian " - -   Tony Blair has been widely derided for his attempted justification of the 2003 Iraq invasion , and his claim last weekend that he's blameless over the current turmoil. Unfortunately, though, many of his critics have also bought into a central plank of his argument: that Iraqi society is no more than a motley collection of religions and ethnicities which have been waiting for decades, if not centuries, to slaughter each other and plunge the place into a bloodbath. The main difference between the two sides seems to be that Blair believes western intervention is the answer; some of his critics say Iraq needed a dictator like Saddam to hold the nation together. N...

U.S. Again Gunning For 'Regime Change' In Iraq By Moon Of Alabama June 19, 2014 " ICH " -  Three days ago we said : The U.S. has conditioned any involvement on the Iraqi government side on a change in its structure towards some "unity government" that would include representatives of the rebellious Sunni strains. Prime Minister Maliki, who received good results in the recent elections, will see no reason to go for that. As expected Maliki declined to follow orders out of Washington DC and he is right to do so. Isn't Iraq supposed to be a sovereign state? No says Washington. It is us who are choosing a new Iraqi prime minister:

The ISIS Fiasco: It’s Really an Attack on Iran The ISIS Fiasco: It’s Really an Attack on Iran By Mike Whitney June 19, 2014 " ICH " - " Counterpunch " - -   There’s something that doesn’t ring-true about the coverage of crisis in Iraq. Maybe it’s the way the media reiterates the same, tedious storyline over and over again with only the slightest changes in the narrative. For example, I was reading an article in the Financial Times by Council on Foreign Relations president, Richard Haass, where he says that Maliki’s military forces in Mosul “melted away”. Interestingly, the Haass op-ed was followed by a piece by David Gardener who used almost the very same language. He said the “army melts away.” So, I decided to thumb through the news a bit and see how many other jou...