'Bloodshed will last five years' (former UK envoy to Iraq)

[sabra]

http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=2444512005

'Bloodshed will last five years'

The bloodshed in Iraq will last for at least five years, Tony Blair's former envoy to the country has predicted.
Sir Jeremy Greenstock also warned it would be "some years" before coalition troops leave Iraq.

"I think (the insurgency) has got at least five years of life, because there are men and there are materials, there's motivation there from the Sunni insurgents, the left-over Bathists, the Saddamists and from the foreign jihadists, the al Qaida franchise," he said.

"There's men and materials there for several years of insurgency."

Speaking on Sky News' World News Tonight he added: "I would have thought that the coalition (troops) would still be in six figures by the start of 2007 ... it may be some years before the last coalition soldiers leave Iraq."

[OneBlueSky]

1. such an optimist . . . n/t

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[twaddler01]

2. my thoughts exactly nt

[Javaman]

3. Where did he pull 5 years from? the magic 8 ball?

Another "expert" on the middle east and iraq. Perhaps this fool should just take a gander at the Brits history in that region and then reassess his 5 years belief.

[Whoa_Nelly]

4. Gee! In 5 years there could be an all out global war

Thanks to the BushCo/PNAC total fuck up :mad:

[orwell]

5. Why...

...does he hate America?

[daleo]

6. At the beginning they said bloodshed for five weeks, then flowers

Then they said five months, now five years. Anyone for five decades?