The article "No Relief From Fear" at
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explains the hatred Iraqis have for us as "Driven by fear and desperation, Um Abdullah's parents, who are Sunnis, swapped homes with a Shiite family they have known for years. Her parents moved to a section of Baghdad's Saidiya neighborhood controlled by Sunni insurgents. And their friends moved into her family home in the Risala area, controlled by Shiite militias. Each family left behind their furniture, so they could move swiftly and in secret.
It seemed a perfect solution in a capital whose polarization along sectarian lines has deepened this year, despite the influx of 30,000 U.S. military reinforcements. But within days of the arrival of Um Abdullah's parents two months ago, Shiite militias pushed deeper into Saidiya, driving out hundreds of Sunni families. The parents' fear returned.
"If they leave their house in Saidiya, that means they will lose their house in Risala because they made the exchange," said Um Abdullah, who would allow only her nickname to be used because of safety concerns. "My parents feel trapped."
A seven-month-old security offensive was intended to bring enough calm to Baghdad and other areas to resuscitate Iraq socially, politically and physically. Achieving those goals has proved elusive.
While statistics assessing the strife in Iraq are murky, one set -- unofficial Interior Ministry and morgue data provided to The Washington Post -- indicates that the number of Iraqis who died violently in August was less than half the number in January. The statistics echo the assertions of U.S. military officials that such deaths are down, although a Government Accountability Office report on Iraq released Tuesday said it was "not clear if sectarian violence has been reduced."
At the same time, the number of Iraqi corpses found dumped on street corners was higher in August than before the security offensive began and the number of Iraqis leaving their homes has increased significantly in recent months.
For some there is nowhere to go. "Where could we move? The whole Iraq is the same now," said Um Abdullah, a 33-year-old mother of four children who lives in Dora, another dangerous neighborhood. Today, in a capital carved up by checkpoints and sectarian no-go zones, Um Abdullah is more isolated than ever from her parents, speaking to them only by telephone. "I would never go back to Saidiya," she said. "They can come visit me, if they want."
With all of the ethnic cleansing and the mass exodus of Iraqis and innocent Iraqis deaths you wonder how the sectarian butchers have anyone left kill. The huge number of displacements of Iraqis brings to mind the phrase "desperate strangers passing in each other in the middle of the night" which makes you ashamed to be an American.
"The moment they put their stuff in the car and leave, this is the worst thing," Abu Yousef said. "I've become a stranger in my own neighborhood."
All that W has said has been fictitious. When these GOP thugs lips' move you know they are lying, but they always have ulterior motives stuffed inside of hidden agendas. Sure W picked up some red state votes by attacking the same country his Poppy did, but he didn't know that he would win as a result of this post 9/11 thinking. He wanted to be stuffing his pockets with blood-stained booty. Who better to launder the funds than "Kenny Boy"? Obviously there is no proof that Lay isn't worm food, and it sounds like the demented ravings of a conspiracy theorist, but with how W has stood reality on its ears, this thesis is also probably closer to the truth then we image.
Remember Webster Hubble? Remember how when he died the GOP wanted to exhume his body to see if the Clintons hadn't done him in? Exhume Lay's body. We'll find out that the body in his grave isn't Kenny's or that he didn't die from natural causes.
Related articles hyperlinks:
"Bush knew Saddam had no weapons of mass destruction" at
http://www.salon.com/opinion/blumenthal/2007/09/06/bush_wmd/
"Experts Doubt Drop In Violence in Iraq" at
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/09/05/AR2007090502466.html
"Slow Motion" at
http://www.slate.com/id/2173537/nav/fix/
"No Relief From Fear" at
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explains the hatred Iraqis have for us as "Driven by fear and desperation, Um Abdullah's parents, who are Sunnis, swapped homes with a Shiite family they have known for years. Her parents moved to a section of Baghdad's Saidiya neighborhood controlled by Sunni insurgents. And their friends moved into her family home in the Risala area, controlled by Shiite militias. Each family left behind their furniture, so they could move swiftly and in secret.
It seemed a perfect solution in a capital whose polarization along sectarian lines has deepened this year, despite the influx of 30,000 U.S. military reinforcements. But within days of the arrival of Um Abdullah's parents two months ago, Shiite militias pushed deeper into Saidiya, driving out hundreds of Sunni families. The parents' fear returned.
"If they leave their house in Saidiya, that means they will lose their house in Risala because they made the exchange," said Um Abdullah, who would allow only her nickname to be used because of safety concerns. "My parents feel trapped."
A seven-month-old security offensive was intended to bring enough calm to Baghdad and other areas to resuscitate Iraq socially, politically and physically. Achieving those goals has proved elusive.
While statistics assessing the strife in Iraq are murky, one set -- unofficial Interior Ministry and morgue data provided to The Washington Post -- indicates that the number of Iraqis who died violently in August was less than half the number in January. The statistics echo the assertions of U.S. military officials that such deaths are down, although a Government Accountability Office report on Iraq released Tuesday said it was "not clear if sectarian violence has been reduced."
At the same time, the number of Iraqi corpses found dumped on street corners was higher in August than before the security offensive began and the number of Iraqis leaving their homes has increased significantly in recent months.
For some there is nowhere to go. "Where could we move? The whole Iraq is the same now," said Um Abdullah, a 33-year-old mother of four children who lives in Dora, another dangerous neighborhood. Today, in a capital carved up by checkpoints and sectarian no-go zones, Um Abdullah is more isolated than ever from her parents, speaking to them only by telephone. "I would never go back to Saidiya," she said. "They can come visit me, if they want."
With all of the ethnic cleansing and the mass exodus of Iraqis and innocent Iraqis deaths you wonder how the sectarian butchers have anyone left kill. The huge number of displacements of Iraqis brings to mind the phrase "desperate strangers passing in each other in the middle of the night" which makes you ashamed to be an American.
All that W has said has been fictitious. When these GOP thugs lips' move you know they are lying, but they always have ulterior motives stuffed inside of hidden agendas. Sure W picked up some red state votes by attacking the same country his Poppy did, but he didn't know that he would win as a result of this post 9/11 thinking. He wanted to be stuffing his pockets with blood-stained booty. Who better to launder the funds than "Kenny Boy"? Obviously there is no proof that Lay isn't worm food, and it sounds like the demented ravings of a conspiracy theorist, but with how W has stood reality on its ears, this thesis is also probably closer to the truth then we image.
Remember Webster Hubble? Remember how when he died the GOP wanted to exhume his body to see if the Clintons hadn't done him in? Exhume Lay's body. We'll find out that the body in his grave isn't Kenny's or that he didn't die from natural causes.
Related articles hyperlinks:
"Bush knew Saddam had no weapons of mass destruction" at
http://www.salon.com/opinion/blumenthal/2007/09/06/bush_wmd/
"Experts Doubt Drop In Violence in Iraq" at
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/09/05/AR2007090502466.html
"Slow Motion" at
http://www.slate.com/id/2173537/nav/fix/
"No Relief From Fear" at
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