The article continues "But parts of the city reverted to chaos and carnage Wednesday as gunmen went door to door assassinating as many as 60 people in revenge for the previous day's truck bombings, Iraqi military and government officials said. The attack was startling for several reasons, including the alleged participation of police officers in the killings and the implication that the six-week-old Baghdad security plan might be allowing violence to metastasize outside the capital.
But perhaps most ominous was the resurgence of reprisal killing at a time when
U.S. and Iraqi officials have noted optimistically that Shiites have responded with restraint to recent insurgent bombings. The violence in Tall Afar follows Shiite reprisal attacks on three Sunni mosques south of Baghdad on Sunday, and it suggested to some Iraqi officials that Shiites are losing patience with government security forces."
Sadr's Mahdi Army has been relaxing while the US troops take their place in committing ethnic cleansing of Iraqi Sunnis. They could re-emerge if too many Shiites die. You don't think that ethnic cleansing is occurring. Then how can you explain that "Tall Afar had as many as 200,000 residents several years ago, although U.S. military officials say the population has declined to 80,000."
Prior to W claiming that the "example of Tall Afar gives me confidence in our strategy" it was about 50% Sunni and Shiite, not as the article states "Most residents are ethnic Turkmen, about 70 percent of them Sunni and 25 percent Shiite," which is an indication of partitioning there.
Iraqis are fleeing the country, or moving to areas that their sect controls, which means that the US should help them in soft partitioning as a way to reduce the violence.
The article "Iraqi Widow Saves Her Home, but Victory Is Brief" at click here shows that partitioning is occurring now in Baghdad, as well as in Tall Afar. It describes the desperation of a common Iraqi, a Ms. Saadoun, and the diabolical methods of the Shiite Death Squads as "Captain Morales stared at the documents the men had been carrying. They had Ministry of Finance letterhead. But the captain's Iraqi interpreter said the papers referred to homes in another neighborhood. They had nothing to do with this area.
The captain ordered his men to take the detainees back to the base. Ms. Saadoun smiled."
So either the Ministry of Finance is in cahoots with these villains or the crooks just stole an official looking form with a letterhead that would convince many of its authenticity.
Captain Morales seems to deeply care about the people he is trying to protect, but he can't accomplish anything against the hordes of contemptible people who love revenge.
It describes the futility of the surge also as "Captain Morales heard the news about Ms. Saadoun the next day around noon. She had been shot in the market earlier that morning, just northeast of the base and within spitting distance of the same checkpoint where the two Shiite men had been stopped. The captain paced around the hallway inside his command center.
His face was ashen.
"What can you do?" his first sergeant said to him. "It's their problem. This is their country, and they need to work it out among themselves. There's nothing we can do about it."
The remaining got out while the getting was good as "By the next morning, everyone living in the house had fled. Abu Bariq, the Iraqi Army soldier, said he had moved his family to a relative's home.
"The neighbors were upset," he said when reached by telephone. "They said, 'No, stay here, we'll protect you. We'll look after you.' I said, 'No thanks.' "
He added: "I'll probably move in with another relative next week. This life is like that of cats, moving from home to home."
Herding cats is prevalent in Iraq and scenes such as Ms. Saadoun endured are common as "The final hours of Ms. Saadoun's life reveal the ferocity with which Shiite militiamen are driving Sunni Arabs from Baghdad house by house, block by block, in an effort to rid the capital of them. It is happening even as thousands of additional American troops and Iraqi soldiers have been sent to Baghdad as part of President Bush's so-called surge strategy."
Some overall statistics are "The task of preventing or reversing the sectarian displacement is daunting. The United Nations estimates that at least 727,000 people have been displaced within Iraq since the bombing of a revered Shiite shrine in February 2006 set off waves of sectarian violence. About two million people have fled the country."
Now all that remains for W and his vile crowd is to see how many bitter red staters they can attract by showing that W is a tough guy by ignoring the will of the people and attacking Congress. To this end he had all of the GOP Congressmen pose with him to show their unity against getting our troops out of harm's way as the article "Senate Sets Stage For Iraq Face-Off" at click here states "Faced with his second rebuke in a week from congressional Democrats on Iraq policy, President Bush yesterday summoned Republican allies to his side in an effort to shift momentum in the escalating battle over the course of the war.
Bush, who has alienated many Republicans on Capitol Hill, invited the entire House GOP caucus to the White House for the first time in his presidency. The meeting came on the same day that the Senate gave final approval to a $122 billion war spending bill that calls for the withdrawal of most U.S. forces from Iraq by March 31, 2008."
The US is at the mercy of the Iraqis to cooperate with each other. They haven't since the Ottoman Empire, and there is no reason to expect them to do so now. We noted the atrocities in Tal Afar. The article "Iraq re-arrests police over reprisal killings" at http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/YAT035005.htm points out that al-Maliki isn't through favoring the Shiites in Iraq as "Iraqi authorities have re -arrested 18 policemen who had been detained but then freed over the reprisal killing of up to 70 Sunni Arab men in the northern town of Tal Afar this week, police said on Friday.
The governor of Nineveh province, which includes Tal Afar, had said on Thursday that policemen who took part in the shootings were released to prevent unrest....
Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, a Shi'ite, has ordered an inquiry into the involvement of police in the killings.
The top U.S. commander in Iraq, General David Petraeus, confirmed on Thursday police appeared to have carried out "retribution killings" after the bombings, which he blamed on al Qaeda."
Al-Maliki lies about working for the reconciliation of Iraqis. The world knows it except for a few red staters that W is still trying to brainwash.
Big bro 43 had the audacity to say "We stand united in saying loud and clear that when we've got a troop in harm's way, we expect that troop to be fully funded." His first secretary of defense sent off troops with inadequate protection and said that countries go to war with the military they have. What if W had "fully funded" the US military back in the beginning of the war? One result could have been that there would have been fewer casualties, if they had the military they wanted, the military that W and Rummy didn't "fully fund", but let our boys and girls go out as sitting ducks for IED attacks. Gen. Eric Shinseki told Congress before the war in Iraq that the military would need "several hundred thousand" troops to secure that nation after major combat operations, but W wanted to do it on the cheap, didn't "fully fund" "Operation Iraqi Freedom" and he has the gall to use that phrase against the Democrats. W was the guy who manipulated pre-war Iraq intelligence, lied, with his spiffy "16 words" during his state of the union and intimidated those who tried to speak truth to power such as with Joseph Wilson, and W is still trying to intimidate the US Democratically Congress.
W is also whining about attachments to the legislation that aren't related to military funding. So what-during the six years that the GOP was running Congress as W's rubber stamp they didn't even allow the Democrats to participate in the committee meetings that occurred to get the Senate and Congressional bills to match. Sometimes these committee meetings would slap on unrelated items. The most egregious example of passing legislation that no Democrat in Congress knew anything about was the original Homeland Security Department Act. The Statement of Senator Patrick Leahy, The Homeland Security Department Act
But perhaps most ominous was the resurgence of reprisal killing at a time when
U.S. and Iraqi officials have noted optimistically that Shiites have responded with restraint to recent insurgent bombings. The violence in Tall Afar follows Shiite reprisal attacks on three Sunni mosques south of Baghdad on Sunday, and it suggested to some Iraqi officials that Shiites are losing patience with government security forces."
Sadr's Mahdi Army has been relaxing while the US troops take their place in committing ethnic cleansing of Iraqi Sunnis. They could re-emerge if too many Shiites die. You don't think that ethnic cleansing is occurring. Then how can you explain that "Tall Afar had as many as 200,000 residents several years ago, although U.S. military officials say the population has declined to 80,000."
Prior to W claiming that the "example of Tall Afar gives me confidence in our strategy" it was about 50% Sunni and Shiite, not as the article states "Most residents are ethnic Turkmen, about 70 percent of them Sunni and 25 percent Shiite," which is an indication of partitioning there.
Iraqis are fleeing the country, or moving to areas that their sect controls, which means that the US should help them in soft partitioning as a way to reduce the violence.
The captain ordered his men to take the detainees back to the base. Ms. Saadoun smiled."
So either the Ministry of Finance is in cahoots with these villains or the crooks just stole an official looking form with a letterhead that would convince many of its authenticity.
Captain Morales seems to deeply care about the people he is trying to protect, but he can't accomplish anything against the hordes of contemptible people who love revenge.
It describes the futility of the surge also as "Captain Morales heard the news about Ms. Saadoun the next day around noon. She had been shot in the market earlier that morning, just northeast of the base and within spitting distance of the same checkpoint where the two Shiite men had been stopped. The captain paced around the hallway inside his command center.
His face was ashen.
"What can you do?" his first sergeant said to him. "It's their problem. This is their country, and they need to work it out among themselves. There's nothing we can do about it."
The remaining got out while the getting was good as "By the next morning, everyone living in the house had fled. Abu Bariq, the Iraqi Army soldier, said he had moved his family to a relative's home.
"The neighbors were upset," he said when reached by telephone. "They said, 'No, stay here, we'll protect you. We'll look after you.' I said, 'No thanks.' "
He added: "I'll probably move in with another relative next week. This life is like that of cats, moving from home to home."
Herding cats is prevalent in Iraq and scenes such as Ms. Saadoun endured are common as "The final hours of Ms. Saadoun's life reveal the ferocity with which Shiite militiamen are driving Sunni Arabs from Baghdad house by house, block by block, in an effort to rid the capital of them. It is happening even as thousands of additional American troops and Iraqi soldiers have been sent to Baghdad as part of President Bush's so-called surge strategy."
Some overall statistics are "The task of preventing or reversing the sectarian displacement is daunting. The United Nations estimates that at least 727,000 people have been displaced within Iraq since the bombing of a revered Shiite shrine in February 2006 set off waves of sectarian violence. About two million people have fled the country."
Now all that remains for W and his vile crowd is to see how many bitter red staters they can attract by showing that W is a tough guy by ignoring the will of the people and attacking Congress. To this end he had all of the GOP Congressmen pose with him to show their unity against getting our troops out of harm's way as the article "Senate Sets Stage For Iraq Face-Off" at click here states "Faced with his second rebuke in a week from congressional Democrats on Iraq policy, President Bush yesterday summoned Republican allies to his side in an effort to shift momentum in the escalating battle over the course of the war.
Bush, who has alienated many Republicans on Capitol Hill, invited the entire House GOP caucus to the White House for the first time in his presidency. The meeting came on the same day that the Senate gave final approval to a $122 billion war spending bill that calls for the withdrawal of most U.S. forces from Iraq by March 31, 2008."
The US is at the mercy of the Iraqis to cooperate with each other. They haven't since the Ottoman Empire, and there is no reason to expect them to do so now. We noted the atrocities in Tal Afar. The article "Iraq re-arrests police over reprisal killings" at http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/YAT035005.htm points out that al-Maliki isn't through favoring the Shiites in Iraq as "Iraqi authorities have re -arrested 18 policemen who had been detained but then freed over the reprisal killing of up to 70 Sunni Arab men in the northern town of Tal Afar this week, police said on Friday.
The governor of Nineveh province, which includes Tal Afar, had said on Thursday that policemen who took part in the shootings were released to prevent unrest....
Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, a Shi'ite, has ordered an inquiry into the involvement of police in the killings.
The top U.S. commander in Iraq, General David Petraeus, confirmed on Thursday police appeared to have carried out "retribution killings" after the bombings, which he blamed on al Qaeda."
Al-Maliki lies about working for the reconciliation of Iraqis. The world knows it except for a few red staters that W is still trying to brainwash.
Big bro 43 had the audacity to say "We stand united in saying loud and clear that when we've got a troop in harm's way, we expect that troop to be fully funded." His first secretary of defense sent off troops with inadequate protection and said that countries go to war with the military they have. What if W had "fully funded" the US military back in the beginning of the war? One result could have been that there would have been fewer casualties, if they had the military they wanted, the military that W and Rummy didn't "fully fund", but let our boys and girls go out as sitting ducks for IED attacks. Gen. Eric Shinseki told Congress before the war in Iraq that the military would need "several hundred thousand" troops to secure that nation after major combat operations, but W wanted to do it on the cheap, didn't "fully fund" "Operation Iraqi Freedom" and he has the gall to use that phrase against the Democrats. W was the guy who manipulated pre-war Iraq intelligence, lied, with his spiffy "16 words" during his state of the union and intimidated those who tried to speak truth to power such as with Joseph Wilson, and W is still trying to intimidate the US Democratically Congress.
W is also whining about attachments to the legislation that aren't related to military funding. So what-during the six years that the GOP was running Congress as W's rubber stamp they didn't even allow the Democrats to participate in the committee meetings that occurred to get the Senate and Congressional bills to match. Sometimes these committee meetings would slap on unrelated items. The most egregious example of passing legislation that no Democrat in Congress knew anything about was the original Homeland Security Department Act. The Statement of Senator Patrick Leahy, The Homeland Security Department Act
at http://leahy.senate.gov/press/200211/111902c.html states "Sections 714 through 716 give a "get out of court free card" to Eli Lilly and other manufacturers of thimerasol. Let's be clear, this provision has nothing to do with homeland security."
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