Party Vibe

I think the current Iraqi “Government” (who would obviously have been hand-picked from people friendly to Washington and London) obviously wanted rid of him quickly whilst there are still sufficient occupation forces in place to help deal with any ensuing serious civil conflict as a result of the execution (and as others have said, to silence him before he exposed too many other murky deals of the 1980s).

Sadly, I suspect that the occupation troops may well be withdrawn next year not out of moral grounds but because the expected Western economic gains have not been delivered.

The West (including non-participant nations) clearly hoped that the Iraqi people would be swiftly cowed by the level of foreign military force deployed in 2003; and would willingly hand over control of the infrastructure and oil reserves to the various corporates who were funding the war.

This has not happened due to an (unsurprising!) high level of insurgency and now the war is costing loads of money to UK, US and European countries as well as destroying international relations without delivering any cheap oil or wider power in the Middle East.

I reckon this battle is lost; and occupation troops may quietly withdraw; leaving Iraq as a divided nation and its people to suffer further.

But if the World is not careful World War III (already started IMO -except its between loosely defined groups rather than nation states) will escalate soon.