Insecurity in Iraq is in – built in the U.S. – conceived sectarian and "federal" constitution drafted after the U.S. – led invasion in 2003, in the political process engineered by the U.S. occupying power on sectarian and federal "constitutional" basis to create a secure pro – U.S. post–Saddam regime as well as in the sectarian polity born there from -- or more to the point brought in by the invading army -- and is still, seven years on, struggling to survive a possible U.S. military disengagement, and in a self–defeating contradictory and security oriented U.S. blueprints for Iraqi reconciliation as a prerequisite for securing the country at least as an ally of the United States, if not as a puppet regime.
"Six and a half years from the moment when American troops captured Baghdad on April 9, 2003, nothing is settled." "Without reconciliation, all the gains ... will be at grave risk of foundering when American troops are no longer around.” That´s the "warning" message that U.S. President Barak Obama, the present and immediate past U.S. ambassadors, Christopher R. Hill and Ryan C. Crocker, and the present and former American military commanders, Gen. Ray Odierno and Gen. David H. Petraeus have been repeatedly whistle-blowing. "What Mr. Obama would do if chaos set in as the American troop withdrawal gathers momentum next spring and summer could be one of the most testing moments in his presidency, all the more so for the evident fact that most Americans and most American legislators .. seem to have decided that America has already borne the burdens of Iraq for too long and needs to shift its priorities to Afghanistan," according to John F. Burns, The New York Times´ chief foreign correspondent, on the ground in Baghdad before, during and after the U.S. – led invasion.
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