Iraq's Deputy Prime Minister: U.S. Broke Iraq, Is Morally Obligated To Fix It

Deputy Premier Mutlaq was reinstated to his office in May 2012 (Reuters)

Sunni Politician: U.S. Broke Iraq, Is Morally Obligated To Fix It -- Miami Herald/McClatchy News

WASHINGTON -- One of Iraq’s top Sunni Muslim leaders on Tuesday delivered a pointed message to Washington: The United States has a moral responsibility to help defeat Iraq’s twin ills of sectarianism and terrorism because those forces were unleashed by the U.S.-led invasion of 2003.

Deputy Prime Minister Saleh Mutlaq repeatedly warned that it would be impossible to conquer a deadly resurgence of al Qaida in the country’s Anbar province without simultaneously pushing for a more representative government than the one led by Nouri al Maliki, the Shiite Muslim prime minister who’s enraged Sunnis with sectarian rhetoric and policies.

So far, the Obama administration has expedited weapons deliveries to Maliki and dispatched envoys to nudge him toward reaching out to Sunnis, but the efforts have done little to thwart al Qaida, which remains in control of Fallujah, the Anbar city that was the scene of the bloodiest battle of the American-led occupation of Iraq.

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My Comment: Iraq was already broken before the U.S. invasion .... and it was the Iraqis themselves who told the U.S. to leave 2 years ago.