Today’s Washington Post reports:
“Prince Saud al-Faisal, the Saudi foreign minister, said Thursday that he had been warning the Bush administration in recent days that Iraq was hurtling toward disintegration, a development that he said could drag the region into war.
"There is no dynamic now pulling the nation together," he said in a meeting with reporters at the Saudi Embassy here. "All the dynamics are pulling the country apart." He said he was so concerned that he was carrying this message "to everyone who will listen" in the Bush administration.”
Essentially the same point is made by Sir Jeremy Greenstock, our former ambassador to the UN and Blair's special envoy to Iraq who told BBC News:
" There would be little alternative if it became clear that there was no reasonable prospect" of holding the country together.
He added, "It is extremely important that Baghdad and the centre hold a united Iraq together. If, as the months go by, this proves to be impossible and Iraq looks as though it is breaking down into a mosaic of different local baronies and militias...then I think the coalition will have to think again about its presence."
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