Why Cheney failed

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> Cheney couldn't get Malaki to move on oil law---70% to company..That's all he wants out of Iraq

> http://www.upi.com/Security_Terrorism/Analysis/2007/05/09/eye_on_iraq_why_cheney_failed/

Eye on Iraq: Why Cheney failed
Security & Terrorism - Analysis
Published: May. 9, 2007 at 6:43 PM

By MARTIN SIEFF
UPI Senior News Analyst
WASHINGTON, May. 9 (UPI) -- U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney said Wednesday he was encouraged by the greater sense of urgency he found in his talks with the prime minister of Iraq. What else could he say?

But the bottom line was that Cheney left Baghdad without being able to force any tangible progress towards the revenue and power-sharing deals with Sunnis and Kurds that the U.S. government regards as essential to creating an effective government over the whole of Iraq and cutting support for the remorseless Sunni guerrilla insurgents in the country.

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Cheney's failure to make any headway with Maliki on oil revenue sharing (stalled for more than a year) and the continuing effectiveness of the insurgents both stem from the same basic failure of the U.S. grand strategy on Iraq. The convoluted and ambitious democratic process that the United States painstakingly put into place to secure the election of the current Iraqi Parliament and the Maliki government did the opposite of what it was intended to do.

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Far from cementing a new national structure in place, the 2005 elections dealt a death blow to the fragile structures that the United States had been frantically building over the previous two and a half years. The elections confirmed and strengthened the primacy of the Sunni and Shiite militias, as well as the Sunni insurgents, throughout the country. It is the militias that are the basic building blocks of what remains of Iraqi society. Therefore, the Iraqi national army and police remain ineffectual against them. Only U.S. troops can prevail against the militias, but the 146,000 U.S. soldiers now in Iraq are still far too few to impose and maintain order in a nation of 28 million people.

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1. The real problem:

The KURDS.

Stupid Cheney and his advisors thought it would be so easy. He didn't realize he'd blow the lid off a fragile country which was held together by threads.

The Buffoon blew it wide open when we invaded. The KURDS are mostly located in the north part of Iraq. THAT is ALSO where the biggest oil deposits are. They are sitting on what could be the world's #1 supply of oil (this is still being debated, they don't know for sure).

But FOR SURE, it's an awful lot of oil. Now the bad part is, the Kurds have been treated like turds, for the longest time. There are several million Kurds in Turkey who would like to be united with their BROTHERS in Iraq. For obvious reasons.

There are also several million Kurds in Iran who would like to be reunited with their BROTHERS in Iraq. In other words, the ME could be a smoldering tinderbox because of this.

Now did the stupid clown Cheney think about all this? Answer: