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Vp Jaafari Slams Us Iraqi Vice

Juan Cole 09/10/2004

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VP Jaafari slams US

Iraqi vice-president Ibrahim Jaafari, a leader of the Shiite al-Da`wa Party, vehemently criticized the US in an interview in El Pais (Spain). He said the US had ridden into Iraq “like “an elephant astride its war machine.” He said it was a mistake to dissolve the Iraqi army and to leave the borders unguarded.

I think if Iraq moves to elections in January, we will see many Iraqi politicians essentially run against the United States. Jaafari could be prime minister if this sort of sentiment proves popular. (The al-Da`wa Party, among Iraq’s oldest and most widespread political parties, will probably do quite well in any elections.

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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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