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by Walter Alarkon - 03/31/08 9:38 AM ET

by Walter Alarkon - 03/31/08 9:38 AM ET

Attaturk recounts the time that President Bush criticized the Iranian Qods brigades, a group that the Iraqi government has reportedly negotiated with in its search for a resolution with Moqtada al-Sadr’s forces in Basra. “So basically, Iran’s calling the shots,” Attaturk writes. Siun argues the inability of the Iraqi government, helped by U.S. forces, to make headway in Basra against al-Sadr’s Mahdi Army demonstrates the “futility of our occupation.”

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