American Allies In Iraq Are Being Replaced

Gen. Nomon Dakhil at a detention facility. He was a key partner in fighting the militias that have been largely responsible for driving American combat deaths to the highest level in three years. Joseph Sywenkyj for The New York Times

U.S. Loses Ally As Iraqi General Waits For Trial -- New York Times

BAGHDAD — When the commander of an elite Iraqi counterterrorist unit escaped arrest on a bribery charge earlier this year, a melee between his bodyguards and the police was captured on video and landed on YouTube. It was leaked, according to the commander and two people involved in the case, by American officials who believed he was innocent and wanted to discredit the Iraqi investigation by portraying it as a circus.

The commander’s fate is a uniquely Iraqi tale of intrigue involving charges of corruption and competing versions of reality, and it shows the tension between a United States now on the verge of withdrawal and an increasingly assertive Iraqi government.

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My Comment: The following paragraph sums up the direction that Iraq is now going ....

.... General Dakhil has been replaced by a new general, who is believed to have ties to the Mahdi Army, the now-disbanded Shiite militia controlled by the anti-American cleric Moktada al-Sadr, who is closely aligned with the Iranian regime that the United States military says is supporting attacks on American soldiers.

Our enemies in Iraq are now running the show.