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Robert Fisk over Irak: 'Look, I'm sorry to sound so pessimistic, but all the political negotiations are going on within a few square acres, guarded by American tanks, from which nobody emerges. These people who are negotiating, they don't go into the streets of Baghdad, they don't see the people, they don't see the bombs. ELEANOR HALL: But the people voted for them. ROBERT FISK: Yes, the Shi'ites voted for them mostly.Look, people want to vote. People would like freedom. But they'd also freedom from us, and that we will not accept, because we want to go on controlling Iraq and making sure Iraq does what we want. We want to control the government of Iraq.I mean, they have a democratic election, and what happens? Bush comes on the telephone and says come on, we want some unity, get moving. ELEANOR HALL: You say the US will have to get out of Iraq, but it will need the help of Iran and Syria to do so… ROBERT FISK: Of course, of course it will. ELEANOR HALL: Now, how would that work? ROBERT FISK: It'll need the help of Iran to make sure that all Shi'ite resistance to the United States ends during the withdrawal, and it'll need the help of the Syrians, who do have a lot of influence along the border with Iraq, to make sure that there is some kind of deal with the insurgents that the Americans can leave not under fire.You see, I mean I've said this before, but the terrible equation, of course politically, from an American political point of view as well, in Iraq, is that the Americans must leave, and they will leave, and they can't leave.' Lees en luister verder: http://informationclearinghouse.info/article12213.htm