Biden and Dividing Iraq

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PM Wednesday, August 27, 2008

Biden and Dividing Iraq

Reuters recently reported: "Across racial and religious boundaries, Iraqi
politicians ... bemoaned Democratic presidential contender Barack Obama's
choice of running mate, known in Iraq as the author of a 2006 plan to
divide the country into ethnic and sectarian enclaves."

VERA BEAUDIN SAEEDPOUR, kurdishlib@aol.com
Editor of Kurdish Life and the International Journal of Kurdish
Studies, Saeedpour is available for a limited number of in-depth
interviews. She said today: "Remember when Biden based his candidacy in the
Democratic primary on his plan to partition Iraq? Alas, the plan was not of
his making. It was made in Israel as part of a larger plan to 'break up the
Sea of Arabs,' in other words to divide the Middle East along ethnic and
sectarian lines in order to guarantee Israel regional hegemony. The
messenger was Council on Foreign Relations head Leslie Gelb, who boasted
that he had persuaded Biden to come aboard during a three-and-a-half hour
hold-over in an airport lounge. ..."

AARON GLANTZ, aaronfglantz@yahoo.com
Author of the book "How America Lost Iraq," and co-author of the
upcoming book "Winter Soldier Iraq and Afghanistan," Glantz reported
extensively from Iraq as an unembedded journalist from 2003 to 2005. He has
been covering U.S. war veterans since his return.
Glantz said today: "Very few politicians have been wrong more on Iraq
than Biden. He was wrong when he voted for the invasion of Iraq and and his
ideas for managing the occupation of Iraq have been consistently awful. His
efforts to force the Bush administration to split Iraq in three has helped
fan the flames of civil war. Iraqis have been hopeful about the possibility
of change that would come with the election of Barack Obama, but in Biden
they will actually get someone with a record worse than George Bush."

For more information, contact at the Institute for Public Accuracy:
Sam Husseini, (202) 347-0020, (202) 421-6858; or David Zupan, (541) 484-9167
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