Choosing Shi'a Posted by Ilan Goldenberg

Crocker says that the "way Iraqis are viewing the battle between Sadr and Maliki as between the government and extremist militias."  Really?  How does he know this?  To me this is how the Bush Administration is viewing / spinning it.  But there is nothing to substantiate that argument.

Has he been out and about among the Iraqi people in the last week?  All of the reporting from reporters on the ground and in the fighting seem to contradict Crocker's statements.   

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[Dan Kervick]

Crocker says that the "way Iraqis are viewing the battle between Sadr and Maliki as between the government and extremist militias."

I think by "Iraqis", Crocker means the "the 20 or 30 Iraqis I see every day in the Green Zone and who essentially work for us".