U.S. Adviser’s Blunt Memo on Iraq: Time ‘to Go Home’

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/31/world/middleeast/31adviser.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=declare%20victory&st=cse

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From: barry levine <levinebar@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 7:23 AM
Subject: re: U.S. Adviser’s Blunt Memo on Iraq: Time ‘to Go Home’
To: letters@nytimes.com


To the Editor:

General Reese errs if he characterized "Shiite political pressure" as an external threat to the proper function of the Iraqi army. Shiites are the Iraqi army, because the Bush administration diverted interested Sunnis to the Awakening movement. Now, this policy of Sectarian segregation is heating up, predictably, into the next round of civil war.

Barry Levine