Has President Obama chosen sides in Iraq? [View all]

[kentuck]

Has he taken the side of the Shia government over the Sunni minority?

If the purpose of the 300 "advisers" is to help the "Iraqi Army" control the advance of the rebel Sunnis and to call in airstrikes if necessary, then how is that not taking a side?

Indeed, politics makes strange bedfellows. Iran has called for a new leader and a new Parliament, going even further than President Obama, in calling for a new government in Baghdad. But the new government will be run by the Shiites, not the Sunni, and it is difficult to see how anyone in the Baghdad government will include the Sunni and Kurds to a satisfactory degree?

If there are any American casualties, we will be drawn back into the quicksand of the civil war that is now raging in Iraq. It is a very treacherous path we have chosen. Any new war is owned by Barack Obama and the Democratic Party.

It may be that the "advisers" were sent to Iraq to satisfy political necessities more-so than prevent terrorism from coming to America once again? The odds for terrorism against America are greater if we are engaged in hostilities in Iraq than if we are not, contrary to the claims of the terrorism experts demanding that we get re-engaged in that country.

However, the "advisers" have temporarily satisfied the warmongering appetite of the neo-cons on the right. They see it as a first step and the President may regret this decision?