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Senator Joe Biden: Three-region solution for Iraq
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May 3, 2007
WASHINGTON, -- U.S. Sen. Joe Biden has
reintroduced his decentralization plan to
effectively partition Iraq into three distinct
regions.
Biden, D-Del., the chairman of the Foreign Relations
Committee of the U.S. Senate, drew up a plan that
envisioned dividing Iraq into three distinct Kurd,
Sunni and Shiite regions.
He introduced the plan last year, but on Tuesday he
called for a second look at the proposal.
"One year ago today, Les Gelb (the president
emeritus of the Council on Foreign Relations) and I
announced our plan for a way forward in Iraq. And
one year later -- with the administration's flawed
policy leading us nowhere and today's news that
April is the deadliest month this year -- our plan
becomes more urgent every day," Biden said in a
statement.
Biden's plan calls for the three main groups in Iraq
to have regional autonomy while a central government
manages common interests such as border security and
distribution of oil revenues. |
Delaware senator and US presidential candidate Joe
Biden |
"The Bush administration still believes that Iraqis
will rally to a strong, democratic central
government that treats everyone equitably. ... But
there is no trust within the government, no trust of
the government by the people and no capacity by the
government to deliver security and services," Biden
said.
The Biden plan may fuel the violence, however,
because it provides incentive to continue or even
accelerate the sectarian killing. In the process of
drawing the regional borders, sectarian militias
would have every incentive to use ethnic cleansing
to create a majority of their sect in order to be
included in one region or another.
Meanwhile, violence in Iraq is creating a de facto
situation similar in some ways to the Biden plan.
Sectarian militias are carving out spheres of
influence that tend to fall within the boundaries of
their respective regions.
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