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'Bush administration elaborates plans for bloodbath in Iraq.

Reports on the Bush administration’s discussions on a change of
course in Iraq indicate that Washington is preparing a major new
bloodbath as part of a desperate attempt to salvage its nearly four-
year-old bid to conquer the oil-rich country.

The New York Times Sunday carried an article entitled “The Capital
Awaits a Masterstroke on Iraq,” which indicated that the options
under discussion include what amounts to support for a genocidal war
against Iraq’s Sunni population as well as the deliberate unleashing
of a region-wide sectarian conflict between the predominantly Sunni
Arab countries and the Shia majorities in Iran and Iraq.

This proposal—known widely in Washington as the “80 percent
solution,” the percentage of the Iraqi population comprising Shia and
Kurds—the Times writes, “basically says that Washington should stop
trying to get Sunnis and Shiites to get along and instead just back
the Shiites, since there are more of them anyway and they’re likely
to win in a fight to the death. After all, the proposal goes, Iraq is
65 percent Shiite and only 20 percent Sunni.”

The plan reportedly has been promoted by Vice President Dick Cheney,
one of the principal architects of the Iraq war from the beginning.

A key consideration, the article adds, is control of Iraq’s oil
fields. “The longer America tries to woo the Sunnis, the more it
risks alienating the Shiites and Kurds, and they’re the ones with the
oil,” the Times states. “A handful of administration officials have
argued that Iraq is not going to hold to together and will splinter
along sectarian lines. If so, they say, American interests dictate
backing the groups who control the oil-rich areas.”'

Lees verder: http://www.wsws.org/articles/2006/dec2006/iraq-d18.shtml