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February 16, 2003

More on Sellout of the Kurds

From the UK Independent comes more details that Bush is telling Kurdish leaders that real regime change is now off-the-table for post-Occupation plans. In order to keep Saudi Arabia and Turkey pacified, the basic regime will remain, with just the top layer of Hussein's deputies changed.

"Conquerors always call themselves liberators," said Sami Abdul-Rahman, deputy prime minister of the Kurdish administration, in a reference to Mr Bush's speech last week in which he said US troops were going to liberate Iraq.
Mr Abdul-Rahman said the US had reneged on earlier promises to promote democratic change in Iraq. "It is very disappointing," he said. "In every Iraqi ministry they are just going to remove one or two officials and replace them with American military officers."

So much for the argument that Hussein's victims like the Kurds are in favor of invasion. It's now clear that all the rhetoric about restoring democracy was just a rhetorical luxury, easily disposed of when realpolitick wooing of Turkey and Saudi Arabia was needed.

Posted by Nathan at February 16, 2003 10:35 PM

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