" "IRAQI IS NOT BOSNIA" x 4

An extraordinary Australian television performance from jabbering Robert Fisk:

Somebody at the moment is trying to provoke a civil war in Iraq. Someone wants a civil war. Some form of militias and death squads want a civil war.

But who are these people, Robert? Who? WHO?

The real question I ask myself is: who are these people who are trying to provoke the civil war?

Indeed; who?

Now the Americans will say it’s Al Qaeda, it’s the Sunni insurgents. It is the death squads. Many of the death squads work for the Ministry of Interior. Who runs the Ministry of Interior in Baghdad? Who pays the Ministry of the Interior? Who pays the militia men who make up the death squads? We do, the occupation authorities.

So ... coalition forces are trying to start a civil war? Is that what Fisk is saying?

I’d like to know what the Americans are doing to get at the people who are trying to provoke the civil war. It seems to me not very much.

These are some serious matters you’re hinting at, Bobby. Got anything to back them up?

What is going on in Iraq at the moment is extremely mysterious. I go to Iraq and I can’t crack this story at the moment. Some of my colleagues are still trying to, but can’t do it. "
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http://timblair.net/

The only thing that can really be concluded by all this is that 30 years as journalist covering the Middle East, may make a "experienced observers of the Middle East" BUT it doesn't mean you have a clue about anything.