AntiWar.Com
by Justin Raimondo

08/01/05

The War Party is facing disaster on a number of fronts, both foreign and domestic: in Iraq, the stubborn defiance of the insurgency and squabbling political factions underscores the failure of the occupation and its unraveling into an all-out civil war. Under the guise of 'federalism,' the split-up of Iraq into three separate states -- the Shi'ite south, the Kurdish enclave, and the no-man's-land of the Sunni Triangle -- proceeds apace. Iranian influence is growing, and the government of Prime Minister Ibrahim Jaafari is already calling for an American withdrawal, albeit not a precipitous one. In Europe, the price of our Iraqi 'victory' is being extracted from the English, as evidenced by the London terror bombings, and even former Prime Minister John Major concedes that this is blowback from the Iraq invasion. It is in the United States, however, that the neoconservatives -- the vanguard of the War Party -- have suffered the biggest reverses and are in the greatest danger...

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Informant: Thomas L. Knapp