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Greg Palast has an excellent opinion piece just ou...

2006-04-14T17:47:00.000-04:00

Greg Palast has an excellent opinion piece just out in The Guardian:

"Desert Rats Leave The Sinking Ship:
Why Rumsfeld Should Not Resign"

Read the article here.

I have to wonder, as a Sunni, what these guerillas...

2006-04-14T13:24:00.000-04:00

I have to wonder, as a Sunni, what these guerillas actually hope to get out of this. The Samarra attack was met with a wave of reprisals, Sunni mosques were burned, imams killed, and the death toll was said to be near 1000. Why go for a sequel? Sunnis realize that they will lose family or bretheren by these attacks.

As I said before, the khwarij are back. (a deviant sect that the prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him, foresaw and said that you can't negotiate with and must wipe out)

Since most of the news you print about Iraq doesn'...

2006-04-14T11:59:00.000-04:00

Since most of the news you print about Iraq doesn't make the mainstream media, this must be the good news they are refusing to print according to Bush.

A few days ago I posted a comment here questioning...

2006-04-14T11:24:00.000-04:00

A few days ago I posted a comment here questioning Dr. Cole's statement that Sunnis wanted a civil war. Given so many reports like those of today about bombings of Shias it occurs to me that I did not really articulate my point well. With so many bombings and killings it cannot be doubted that some Sunnis and others are fomenting civil war. My primary concern is with whether those who support US withdrawal must be so terrified by the prospect of civil war that they compromise their demand that US troops withdraw. As I pointed out and used Brzezinski's statement to support, perhaps we need not be so worried about the prospect of civil war because Sunnis are only 25% of the population and both Shia and Kurds have some common interests (they both have oil and want a loose confederation)and thus are likely to combine against Sunnis so that Sunnis would likely lose. Both Kurds and Shia also have their own militias with which to combat Sunnis. I don't wish to see a civil war but now that W has destabilized the country I do not want exaggerated fears of civil war to keep us from getting out.

I think this signals a new orientation - Sadr has ...

2006-04-14T10:35:00.000-04:00

I think this signals a new orientation - Sadr has now placed himself in a very unique position: he has criticized the Iranians for using Iraq to settle their own political affairs (with the US), criticized the Americans, embraced the Sunnis. This means one of two things: either he will continue to rise as a political force in Iraqi politics, or he will be assasinated. The interesting thing is that he basically gives the Americans eveything they 'officially' want, and you realize that they don't want him to want it.

On Cheney, Rumsfeld order, US outsourcing special ...

2006-04-14T08:10:00.000-04:00

On Cheney, Rumsfeld order, US outsourcing special ops, intelligence to Iraq terror group, intelligence officials say by Larisa Alexandrovna

' "These guys are nuts," this intelligence source said. "Cambone and those guys made MEK members swear an oath to Democracy and resign from the MEK and then our guys incorporated them into their unit and trained them."

' According to all three intelligence sources, military and intelligence officials alike were alarmed that instead of securing a known terrorist organization, which has been responsible for acts of terror against Iranian targets and individuals all over the world – including US civilian and military casualties – Rumsfeld under instructions from Cheney, began using the group on special ops missions into Iran to pave the way for a potential Iran strike.

' "They are doing whatever they want, no oversight at all," one intelligence source said.

' Indeed, Saddam Hussein himself had used the MEK for acts of terror against non-Sunni Muslims and had assigned domestic security detail to the MEK as a way of policing dissent among his own people. It was under the guidance of MEK ‘policing’ that Iraqi citizens who were not Sunni were routinely tortured, attacked and arrested.'

Can you still say with any assurance that you believe it is some group other than the neocons who are behind the brutal terrorism in Iraq?