As the U.S. involvement in Iraq surpassed the length of America's participation in World War II, lawmakers have dwindling confidence in the U.S.-supported Iraqi government. Maj. Gen. William B. Caldwell, a spokesman for coalition forces in Iraq, declined Monday to say whether Iraq had plunged into civil war. "No. ... We have violence that are at unacceptable levels at the moment," he said in an interview from Baghdad. "It had been on a downward trend for about four solid weeks."
Life for ordinary Iraqis is now worse than under Saddam Hussein as the country descends into violence "much worse" than civil war, Asked by reporters at the U.N. if Iraq is in a civil war now, Annan replied, "I think given the developments on the ground, unless something is done drastically and urgently to arrest the deteriorating situation, we could be there. In fact we are almost there." The Secretary General of the United Nations gave his hardest-hitting assessment yet of the present situation as he prepared to leave office. "If I was an average Iraqi, I would make the same comparison …They had a dictator who was brutal but they had their streets: they could go out, their kids could go to school and come back without a mother or father worrying 'Am I going to see my child again?'. "A society needs minimum security and a secure environment for it to get on. Without security, not much can be done." He also expressed his sadness at being unable to prevent the invasion in 2003 And yet Kofi Annan the UN retiring General Secretary has said.
Most of the pain in the Iraq is caused by the presence of the US & UK troops. If they get out, the Iraqi will find no enemy to fight and even Alkaida won't find any reason to carry on killing civilians
Posted by: skills | December 06, 2006 at 06:06 PM