December 09, 2007 12:33 PM
Iraq'd
Guerrillas deployed a roadside bomb to kill the police chief of Hilla, a largely Shiite city south of Baghdad.
AP reports that "Religious vigilantes have killed at least 40 women this year in the southern Iraqi city of Basra because of how they dressed, their mutilated bodies found with notes warning against "violating Islamic teachings . . ."
One of the problems with how the US press tends to cover Iraq is that they often leave out the Shiite south because there are few US troops down there, apparently assuming that it is relatively stable. Not.
Ned Parker of the LA Times writes that Iraq has not been so much pacified as Balkanized.
But, but no one reports all the GOOD news coming out of Iraq!
Faux News Opinion Poll, 12-10-2007
Please vote:
How many innocent civilian Iraqis killed in the war is too many?:
A. 250,000 per year.
B. 800,000 total.
C. You cannot put a price on freedom.
Throw up enough concrete walls, and soon you have the populace 'pacified'.
So long as you put a toilet in each cubicle. And don't walk around alone at night.
Are we allowed to use 'Iraq'd' on a family blogsite like C&L?
Shouldn't it be 'Ira*'d'?
Jesusturnedwaterboardingintowhine @ 2:
Do you have a link?
Top ten with a bullet on the Iraqi hit list
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e6bSRcRAhnc&feature=related
Preacher Boob @ 3:
And don't have a wide stance.
Democracy Now on FSTV had an excellent piece last week (of course) on what's been going on in Basra. If you have a chance you might check their archives for it.
US Army bulldozers are working furiously to finish the 100-yard wide moat they're digging all around Iraq. Once they fill it with water, they figure they'll have the whole country 'pacified'.
One little thing. Oil floats.
As soon as the patriotic defenders of Irag top off the moat with oil, and set it ablaze, the army may have second thoughts.
Their first thought should be, 'Trapped'.
Do I have a link? Why yes I do. Several of them in fact. I can link Saddam and 9/11, secular humanism and Hurrican Katrina, severe population decline in America and gay marriage just at a point in history where we need all the young men and women we can get to swell our fighting ranks for the war on terrible terroristic terrorists. I can also link my first cousin directly back to Joseph Smith. I just found that out thanks to a website distributed by a Mitt Romney campaigner who stopped by our compound last week with geneology info. I got so many links I am like a sausage factory.
I'm sure Sen. David Vitter could teach the Iraqis on how to be pacified.
AP reports that “Religious vigilantes have killed at least 40 women this year in the southern Iraqi city of Basra because of how they dressed, their mutilated bodies found with notes warning against “violating Islamic teachings . . ."
Remember that campaign slogan from 2000?
W is for Women
and yet... from basra:
UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown yesterday made a surprise visit to British troops in southern Iraq, announcing to them that “within two weeks,” their combat operations in Basra will be over. According to The Sun, his message was “cheered” with “warm applause” by the soldiers.
http://thinkprogress.org/2007/12/10/browns-christmas-gift-to-uk-troops/
This sounds like a deadly game of whack a mole. One area becomes a bit better but two more become worse.
I just don't think you can change ages of history at the end of a gun. You can't wall people in and expect them to be content forever. The history of the walls is much shorter than the history of the people and the region.
If this is true then we need to seal it off and drop the big one. I don't see anything salvageable in places like Iraq. Not really.
And everyday Americans don't either.
Ron @ 5:
http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_ss_gw/103-5959422-2437434?url=search-alia...
the beltway bumpkins will parrot any Bushism to get "exclusive" interviews with cokey even though he's been interviewed 10k times before
pissed off patricia @ 13:
Of course you can, you godless liberal. "The surge is working." The ages of history are in their last throes.
Ron @ 5:
http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_ss_gw/103-0628726-6625423?url=search-alia...
Is this site getting as glitchy as Iraq?
Rusty Shackleford @ 17:
"Godless liberal" and these days, damned proud of it! :)
ysbaddaden @ 19:
One of my comments was temporarily rendered to a black site, where I think it was waterboarded. When it reappeared it was but a shell of its former self.
The war in Iraq is over! Don't you know that? In fact. I'm just getting in my tank to go down the Seven Eleven in Fallujah and get one of their delicious smoothies.
purvis ames @ 23:
But the minute you buy some 7-11 nachoes with jalapenos you'll cut one loud enough to restart the firefight all over again.
Killing and mutilating people for religious reasons...
Humans can be so effing retarded and cruel, all because they are afraid of the dark.
In light of these sorts of clowns and their horrendous activities, I am that much more proud to be an athiest.
Rusty Shackleford @ 12:
Eww. No, I don't remember that one. Wtf...
Hey,
It's Informed COMMENT, not Informed CONSENT.
One's a blog, the latter, a legal requirement.
:)
Basra holds the keys to the kingdom, 80% of the oil wealth is there, and its being fought over by various Shia sects. It is turning into an Iranian sponsored theocracy there, and that SHOULD remind the neocons that bombing Iran is a BAD idea.
But to plumb the depths of their stupidity is to realize they think bombing Iran is in our best interests.
I can no longer say its incompetence, it must be by design. Disaster capital.
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