Nouri al-Maliki may or may not meet the fate of many other US government puppets (for example, retirement by a bullet to the back of the head) but he certainly is typical of other US-installed puppets. Of course, this being Iraq, he'll probably be hanged like the 129 people hanged in Iraq last year or like the previous US-installed puppet Saddam Hussein. (llustration is Isaiah's The World Today Just Nuts "Not Quite There.")
Yesterday a historic moment took place. Ayla Jean Yackley noted it with "Kurdish rebels begin Turkey withdrawal, fueling peace hopes" (Saudi Gazette). A decades long conflict between the PKK and the Turkish government had a chance of ending and that's all it took to upset the insane thug Nouri al-Maliki.
AP reports that Nouri is insisting no members of the PKK will be coming into Iraq.
The PKK's already in Iraq and the whole world knows it. That's why Nouri's whines about Turkish war planes bombing were never taken seriously -- he whined in 2006 and then tabled it for two years before he began whining nonstop, as though he were a baby that had missed a feeding. Most western media outlets -- CNN, the Times of London, the Telegraph of London, CBS News, etc -- took their tours of PKK headquarters by 2006, if not sooner. That meant that traveled to the mountain area of northern Iraq.
That's the area that the Turkish warplanes would target and they did that based on intelligence from the US CIA -- a CIA base was set up on Turkey's southern border as part of the 2011 drawdown. Surveillance drones fly over Iraq from that location.
Nouri is brewing another round of ethnic cleansing in Iraq and maybe that's what's got Nouri so upset -- trained Kurdish fighters could complicate his bid to kill more Sunnis.
But the reality is, Iraqis flee to northern Iraq. Southern and Central Iraq aren't really destinations for the residents of northern Iraq. Kurds don't say, "Hmm. Erbil seems nice but I think I'm in the mood for Basra."
The PKK fighters that withdraw have to go somewhere and it wasn't even a question that they'd go to Kurdistan. It's still not a question because that's the semi-autonomous Kurdistan Regional Government and Nouri has no say there. If this were a movie (yes, I'm stealing from Kat), right about now, Glinda the Good Witch of the North (or Glinda the Good Witch of Northern Iraq) would pop up, wave her wand and tell Nouri, "You have no power here! Begone, before somebody drops a house on you, too!" (The Wizard of Oz).
Since he has no say in this and no power, why the hell is speaking on the topic?
Because, heaven forbid, peace might break out.
Psychotic individuals like Nouri thrive on conflict, feed off negative energy. Nothing must threaten Nouri more than the thought that people might actually get along with another.
The biggest threat to peace in Iraq continues to be Nouri.
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