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Us Committed To Strong Centralized Iraq

Juan Cole 09/22/2003

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US Committed to a strong, Centralized Iraq: Muashir

The Jordanian Foreign Minister, Marwan Muashir, said Sunday that King Abdallah II was told when he was in Washington recently that the US opposes a loose federation in Iraq based on ethnic and religious groupings. He was told that Washington wants a strong central government in the country.

Many have suggested that Iraq would best be broken up into Kurdish, Sunni Arab and Shiite mini-states, with or without a loose Federal government binding them tenuously together. It is rumored that the loose Federation idea has some support among the neoconservatives, which is worrisome, since they tend to get what they want.

The problem is that “Washington” or the “US” could mean lots of things. Was it the State Department that told the Jordanians this, or the White House, or the Defense Department?

See my recent comment on the Federal issue at

https://www.juancole.com/

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Juan Cole is the founder and chief editor of Informed Comment. He is Richard P. Mitchell Professor of History at the University of Michigan He is author of, among many other books, Muhammad: Prophet of Peace amid the Clash of Empires and The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. Follow him on Twitter at @jricole or the Informed Comment Facebook Page

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