Iran denounces Bush's Iraq strategy as continued occupation
US President George Bush’s new strategy to send thousands of more troops to Iraq was met with harsh scepticism across the Middle East today where many predicted that even with more soldiers, America would fail at breaking the cycle of violence.
Many analysts said instead of quelling the fighting, sending more troops into Iraq would just increase the number of causalities and continue to divide the war-fractured country.
To some Arabs, the surge was a sign the United States was pushing ahead with a military solution to the Iraq war that has failed in the past.
Bush “is drowning and trying to get out of the Iraqi trap, but he’s submerging deeper,” Salem al-Falahat, head of Jordan’s Muslim Brotherhood Movement, said, warning that the US plans “aims to plunge the region into more destruction and bloodshed and leave Iraq with sectarian hatred for many decades to come.”
In Tehran, Iran’s foreign ministry denounced Bush’s plan as a “continuation of occupation.”
Ministry spokesman Mohammad Ali Hosseini denied Iran was meddling in Iraq, saying Bush made the accusations “to cover up its wrong policies” in Iraq.
