September 18, 2007 3:00 PM

"Funding All Sides of this Sectarian War"

Progress in Iraq? From an interview on Alternet today:

There have been a lot of reports about the fact that the people who the U.S. is working with, the supposed "freedom fighters," the "counter-insurgents" are former insurgents. They were Iraqi al Qaeda before they started working with the Americans. That is troubling because if they were fighting the Americans once, they'll fight Americans again. And more troubling for the future of Iraq is the fact that many of the tribes that the U.S. is working with are war criminals who are directly responsible for ethnic cleansing and who are using American support to prepare for sectarian civil war. The U.S. is funding Sunni militias. They already funded the Shia militias. They're now funding all sides of this sectarian war.

Read more of the interview with journalist and filmmaker Rick Rowley -- whose testimony of the Iraq situation may differ a little than that of General Petraeus.