Iraq situation "very tenuous": US military intelligence chief

WASHINGTON (AFP) - Iraq has not been plunged into a civil war yet but the situation is "very tenuous" and further attacks would have "a very significant impact," the chief of US military intelligence said.

Lieutenant Michael Maples, director of the Defense Intelligence Agency, also predicted that Iraqi security forces will fight hard for the national government despite sectarian pressures.

"I think we should take heart in the leaders who have come forward at this point," he told the
Senate Armed Services Committee. "But we're also in a very tenuous situation right now, I believe."

"I think that more violence, were it to occur, were it to be stimulated by Al-Qaeda in Iraq, would have a very significant impact on the situation in Iraq," he said.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/usiraqintelligence

it's like predicting night will follow daytime

Uh-oh.

They vacillate...Whew, we dodged a bullet there. Just barely scraped by a Civil War which was functioning fairly well, even with UN sanctions for a decade.

Next, it's civil war without a doubt. It's looking bad... but no, the officers on the ground say things are OK.....


for the moment.

There are officers that did as they thought right - and then there were officers that were looking for career advancement. Two different breeds.

Is it a civil war now?? - Man, it has been one for months - they just can't hide it anymore.

All hell is going to break lose over there, over the next months - and OUR kids need to get the hell out of there, RIGHT NOW!!

This was NEVER our fight. Iraq can go to hell for all I care, but those kids, they are OUR kids, this countries kids.

Joe

"You're giving comfort to our enemies!!!"
what fucking arrogant hypocrites!

Eh? An El-Tee in charge of the DIA? Methinks maybe Lieutenant Michael Maples might be a Lieutenant General (three-star general). Eh?

West Point class of 1971