It’s bad enough that The US spent 1.5 Trillion, lost 4,000 men, had 10,000’s wounded and got no oil contracts from the Iraq war. Now the Iraqi government is taking orders from Iran. They have recently attacked Iranian refugees camps at the behest of Tehran. To add insult to injury, they used American equipment.
After American forces leave Iraq at the end of 2011, Tehran will try to turn its neighbor into a satrapy (i.e., a province, a satellite state) to the great detriment of Western, moderate Arab, and Israeli interests.
Intense Iranian efforts are already underway, with Tehran sponsoring militias in Iraq and sending its own forces into Iraqi border areas. Baghdad responds with weakness, with its chief of staff proposing a regional pact with Iran and top politicians ordering attacks on the Mujahedeen-e-Khalq (MeK), an Iranian dissident organization with 3,400 members resident in Camp Ashraf, 60 miles northeast of Baghdad. The MeK issue reveals Iraqi subservience to Iran with special clarity.
That threat Democracy of Iraq, what a success!
