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A mob of gunmen went on a brazen daytime rampage through a predominantly Sunni Arab district of western Baghdad on Sunday, pulling people from their cars and homes and killing them in what officials and residents called a spasm of revenge by Shiite militias for the bombing of a Shiite mosque on Saturday. Hours later, two car bombs exploded beside a Shiite mosque in another Baghdad neighborhood in a deadly act of what appeared to be retaliation.
Good to see that Bush finally has things under control in Iraq. I'm sure that he will blame the media, particularly the New York Times, for reporting only "bad news." However, there seems to be no shortage of depressing reports coming out of Iraq.
The answer to this Bush-inspired mess is to break Iraq into three separate regions: 1) Northern Republic 2) Middle Republic and 3) Southern Republic. Notice, I did not divide these regions by religion or ethnicity, although each region would have obvious majorities. However, by calling the Southern Republic, Shiastan, for example, it implies that there is no freedom of religion for individuals. And, if this is the case, there is no liberty - the very reason Bush sold us on his military excursion. The key to making this arrangement work is fairly dividing oil revenues and having U.S. troops positioned nearby - preferably on an aircraft carrier that is safely out of harms way.
Iraq is unraveling. How many U.S. soldiers are going to have to die before we admit the obvious?
2 Comments:
Hmmm, wouldn't cutting it up into three baby states do two things: One; create easily controlled puppet states, and two;facilitate three genocidal civil wars? Also, in all this horrific nightmare, hardly anyone mentions the Fourth group in Iraq, the several million Assyrians, who would be orphaned by this plan. The Kurds have been vicious toward the Assyrians for a long time. (Please forgive my awful grammar and construction) At this point, sadly, I think about all we can do is to keep a lid on the worst excesses while watching until the ethnic cleansing is completed, much as we did in the Balkans. BTW, I enjoy your writing, and I've linked you, even though my blog isn't political.
posted by A Bear in the Woods, at
7/10/2006 12:34 PM
Don't be silly, Wayne! We all know that the best thing to do is to "stay the course". After all, God Himself told George to do this! With Jesus as your favorite political philosopher, there must be something to it! It isn't easy to bring peace to the middle east! But at least we've been greated as liberators, just like Vice President Cheney said! It is obvious to me that anyone who says anything against this war is a flag-burning hippie who hates America, God, baseball games and apple pie, too!
posted by Anonymous, at
7/10/2006 8:28 PM
