Graeme Wall wrote:
In message .com
"MIG" wrote:

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Different fight, that's the remnants of Saddam's regime trying to
destabilise the new regime. There are at least 3 different wars going on
in Iraq at the moment with a potential fourth, and more than one external
souce acting either overtly or covertly on more than one side at a time.
No wonder the Americans are confused.


So the Americans are just innocent bystanders? The mind boggles.


How on earth did you come up with that? I said the Americans were confused
not innocent. They are one of the external sources referred to above. I
think even you would have to agree with ne that they are acting both overtly
and covertly in Iraq. What they can't cope with is the idea that others are
doing the same thing.


If you meant that the Americans were among the external forces you
referred to, then I've got no dispute with that. I interpreted the
last statement as referring to them separately from the external
forces.

I am not sure that they are so much confused as not interested. They
don't need to understand the detail as long as the civil wars they are
helping to cause give them an overt excuse to stay in Iraq.