The Liberation Of Iraq, Bush Style

According to that wash-out John McCain, things are improving. Is he talking about things such as this?

Asia Times Online    By Pepe Escobar   April 6, 2007

A 100-square-meter apartment sells for 2 million Syrian pounds (roughly US$40,000) - four times as much as before the Iraqi invasion. One square meter in prime business premises is now $20,000. Iraqis always pay US dollars cash. No wonder the price of potatoes has also risen fourfold. Not to mention the inflation of hairdressing salons - where Mesopotamian sirens perfect their Christina Aguilera-influenced, multi-shaded pompadours. And right beside al-Nahda is the action - al-Rahda, peppered with smart cafes like the Stop In and al-Nabil not far away from a huge Sunni mosque.

There's not only Little Fallujah. There also are Little Baghdad, Little Mosul, Little Babylon, Little Najaf. But even exile replicates the stark divide found in Baghdad. Middle-class Sunnis won't be seen around the middle-class Shi'ites who tend to go to the area around the spectacular Sayyida Zaynab shrine - a key Shi'ite pilgrim site boasting distinctive Persian architecture that would be perfectly at home in Qom or Mashhad. This area is Little Najaf. The stories, though, are similar to Little Fallujah's. Shi'ite families had to abandon their homes in predominantly Sunni neighborhoods - otherwise they would have been killed. They came, they saw, they opened a restaurant, and they're in business.

This proliferation of Little Iraqs accounts for the biggest exodus in the Middle East since the Palestinians were forced to abandon their own lands in 1948 as the State of Israel was being created. In every single month in Iraq at least 40,000 people are displaced. According to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, there may be as many as 50,000 a month. Were that rate to continue, before 2020, all the population of Iraq would have been "liberated" from its own country.

Whichever Iraq one picks in Damascus, the mantra is recited in unison. Any glimmer of hope for the future hinges on the Americans leaving - and the establishment, by Iraqis, with no foreign interference, of a non-sectarian government.

 

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Muqtada al-Sadr Telling Iraqis Forces To Attack U.S. Troops

"The president is vetoing the bill to provide money for soldiers -- readiness, health care, armaments, etc and a timeline to get out of Iraq." --  Keep this in mind when Bush blames the Democrats!

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   Iraqi cleric Muqtada al-Sadr is now telling the Iraqi forces to stop cooperating with the United States and he also told his fighters to begin concentrating on American troops instead of other Iraqis.

   This comes from a statement that was released Sunday and even though it bears the official al-Sadr seal, the writer has not been verified. Source

"You, the Iraqi army and police forces, don't walk alongside the occupiers, because they are your archenemy."

"God has ordered you to be patient in front of your enemy, and unify your efforts against them — not against the sons of Iraq. You have to protect and build Iraq."

   For the record, the Associated Press count of U.S. soldiers killed in Iraq now stands at 3,274 including 7 civilians.

  As much as I hate to say this, things are going to get pretty ugly for the United States troops in Iraq. U.S. soldiers are under-trained and they are fighting groups who have been doing this kind of fighting for a very, very, long time.

   This occupation of Iraq is heading toward a disastrous outcome under Bush's leadership. Unfortunately, it mat be to late to do anything about it. The American voters fucked up when you re-elected this idiot in 2004 and so you also can take the blame for this mess in Iraq and the deaths of our troops.

  This man has to go, and Nancy Pelosi and the rest of the Congress have to put impeachment up on the table and then proceed with it! 10 or so states are already working on getting congress to impeach this asshole, so it will not be long before Congress has no choice but to look into it.

 

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