لا تحيّة لهذا العلم!

No Salute to This Flag!

A blue crescent reduces Arabs to Muslims, a yellow line grants Kurds exclusive nationality — Saddam in reverse, and a flag that deserves only to be torn apart in the street.

For an Arab-Kurdish Federation in Iraq

An-Nahar

Translation: Iraqi federalism should be based on the national divide, not the sectarian one—and the occupation destroyed the state, not just the regime. Kirkuk's oil belongs to all Iraqis.

من اجل فيدرالية عربية – كردية في العراق

For an Arab-Kurdish Federation in Iraq

As-Safir

The occupation destroyed the state, not just the regime — federalism is either partition's euphemism or a path to rebuilding unity. Condition: an Arab-Kurdish formula transcending ethnicity and sects.

العراق: حرب أعْلام أم حربٌ أهلية؟

Iraq: A War of Flags or a Civil War?

As-Safir

Iraq's war of flags is merely a symptom of a complex civil war, demanding a political Iraqi solution that ends violence and establishes a federalism transcending sectarianism.

Renverser Saddam Hussein ou démembrer l’Irak?

Overthrowing Saddam Hussein or Dismembering Iraq?

Le Monde diplomatique

Saddam survived because Bush wanted to replace one dictator with another, not a popular uprising—and the real question is: topple him or dismember Iraq?