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Departing US Army chief won't rule out Iraq's partition
[RUDAW.NET] General Raymond Odierno said Wednesday that the partition of Iraq into separate administrative regions "might be the only solution" to the country's crisis, although the outgoing US Army Chief of Staff was careful to soften his position."I think its [reconciliation] is becoming more difficult by the day and I think there might be some alternative solutions that might come sometime in the future, where Iraq might not look like what it did in past," said Odierno, the US Army's 38th Chief of Staff, at his last presser at the Pentagon. "[Partition] is something that could happen and might be the only solution, but I am not ready to say that," he said. Odierno will be replaced Friday by General Mark Milley, concluding a 39-year career in the US military. The general said the United States has trained 16,000 Iraqis, including Sunnis and Kurds, as a part of coalition efforts to enable local forces to take on the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... (ISIS). "As of this morning when I was briefed, about 16,000 [Iraqi forces] have been trained by US forces in Iraq since the beginning of the year," said Odierno. Posted by: Fred 2015-08-14 |
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