American commander of al-Maliki and Obama outlines responsibility for what is happening in Iraq
American commander of al-Maliki and Obama outlines responsibility for what is happening in Iraq
23-10-2014 02:32 PM
Warned senior American officer, the administration of President Barack Obama, the possibility of the involvement of the United States in a long-term fourth war in Iraq, what do not turn well, in light of the military campaign against al-‘Islamic state’ (Daash).
The American commander, retired, John Nagl, who served several times in Iraq, that the United States may be destined to repeat the same mistakes in the past in Iraq.
He wrote Nagel an article in the magazine ‘Foreign Policy’ of America on Tuesday in which he stated that ‘the first war (1991) in Iraq was necessary and led the United States a good role, and unlike the second war (1991, 2003), which was unnecessary, and the performance was American which is not well, however, ended up the results of a reasonable ‘.
He pointed out that ‘it was possible to avoid a third war (2003), that an early withdrawal of American troops.’
He stated that ‘although it is too early to say how things will end, it is not premature to say that we have not done our part to the fullest, the United States will enter into a protracted war in Iraq’.
Nagel and criticized the management of the former American President, George Bush, because they did not have a plan for postwar Iraq, 2003, and to secure warehouses for storing weapons. He said the decision to disband the Iraqi army in the wake of the invasion, and to prevent former members of the ruling Baath Party from receiving positions in the State, the reason for the Sunni Arab insurgency in Iraq.
As the face of the American officer, retired, President Obama to ‘keep 20 thousand non-military adviser in Iraq to assign the Iraqi army.’ He said ‘Once he came to power, Obama refused to follow the advice of Defense Minister, Leon Panetta, and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, and the commander of Central Operations and later director of the CIA, General David Petraeus, to keep the Americans in Iraq advisers’. He considered this step of Obama ‘abandonment of the country, which fought the Americans for more than 20 years, in order to build a stable state’, as described.
Nagel also criticized the policies followed by the former Iraqi prime minister, Nuri al-Maliki, after the departure of American troops. He attributed the progress of the ‘Daash’ in Iraq to the wrong policies practiced by al-Maliki and the American president in Iraq.
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