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Arab League: Iraq War
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The Arab League initiative failed because there could not be a combination between alliance with the occupation and those confronting the occupation. It has failed because it wanted to kill the resistance and besiege it. It has failed because it has come as an attempt to put pressure on the Sunnis for softening their stand towards the referendum that partitions Iraq and torpedoes its Arab affiliation and ... failed because it has intended to achieve the reconciliation before removal of the occupation. The logic says that occupation must be ended first and all other steps would follow. The occupation itself has destroyed, killed, stabilized the spirit of sectarianism and ignited the state of dissention and with it came the security instability and chaos. Thus there was no hope for any reconciliation to survive unless occupation is ended. For all that it seems that the Arab League movement has come as an attempt to present a life jacket to the Americans.
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