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Iraqi lawmaker: Washington exploit differences to extend survival in Iraq
17/07/2011 15:04
Baghdad, July 17 (Rn) - A deputy from the coalition in Iraq led by Iyad Allawi on Sunday that the United States began to "take advantage" of the political differences to keep its troops in Iraq.
US troops in Iraq, US army in Iraq It is still a coalition of state law and Iraqi battling heavily on power since several months while still sensitive security ministries vacant.
The United States has the U.S. less than 47 000 troops in Iraq carry out the functions of training, advice and support Iraqi security forces.
And is going on in Iraq is controversial on whether to keep part of the American forces amid doubts the ability of Iraqi forces to receive security duties on their own. Sadrists reject that strongly.
The MP said Nabil Hrbo of Kurdistan News Agency (Rn) that "political instability and incompatibility of the use by the United States to extend the period of stay in the country."
And waved Iraqi - who say that their right to win, "robbed" after the elections - to call for early elections to end the power struggle.
He Hrbo "When there are no national partnership, this indicates that the long distances. It exploits the instability of the situation in the country. America wants an argument. Differences the best argument for it."
He Hrbo "a coalition of state law is still rigid positions. This is in the interest of the United States to keep its troops on Iraqi soil."
Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki said earlier he would ask the major political blocs in the country to discuss whether he would extend the stay of U.S. troops in Iraq beyond the end of the year.
Maliki and one of those who said on several occasions that he is no longer needed to foreign forces, but this time open the door of what appears before the continued U.S. presence.
And increased violence in Iraq, particularly in Baghdad, in conjunction with the escalation of differences between Iraqi politicians and especially between al-Maliki, Allawi against the backdrop of competition for positions sovereign controversial.
The Iraqis fear the return of violence to the country after the U.S. withdrawal, and others fear of renewed bloody attacks in the event of delayed withdrawal, particularly after threats by the leader of the Sadrist movement of Muqtada al-Sadr that his militia will return to the streets if the breach of the security agreement between Baghdad and Washington.
Commanders say that Iraq will not be able to protect its airspace and its borders until 2020, and refers to some that the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq before that time would harm the country.
The recent New York Times quoted Defense Minister George Leon Panetta told a gathering of soldiers during his visit to Baghdad, "Do you want us to stay? Do you want to not stay? Do you want to (label) and Minister of Defense? Or they do not want ministers of defense," and then arrived say "What a curse! made a decision."
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