Sectarian Violence Up In Baghdad

   HERE is the latest on the sectarian violence in Baghdad, which has gone back up once again.

  A month before Bush's troop surge went into affect, there were 321 bodies found littered throughout the Iraqi capitol. In this month of May, up until this past Tuesday, there were 321 unidentified bodies found with alot of them showing signs of having been tortured and executed.

   These stats come from an Iraqi Health Ministry official who is anonymous since he isn't supposed to release this information to the public, or anyone else for that matter.

Lt. Gen. Aboud Qanbar, the Iraqi commander overseeing the security plan, acknowledged in an interview that the number of unidentified corpses is rising and said there has been a spike in sectarian assaults by Shiite militias, especially elements of the Mahdi Army, the militia of Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr.

In the 14 weeks preceding the start of the plan on Feb. 14, at least 821 people died in 11 attacks -- typically suicide car bombings -- that killed more than 20 people at a time, according to a Washington Post analysis. There have been at least 20 such attacks in the 14 weeks since the start of the plan, causing a death toll of at least 1,098, the analysis showed.     Washington Post

  Bush and his boys keep saying that the violence is down in hopes of the U.S. citizens supporting his ill-advised surge and to keep the money coming from Congress.

   The Democrats in Congress are going to give Bush his money without a withdrawal timeline for this crap? I think that the Democrats just bought Bush's war from him.

 

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Keith Olbermann Blast Dem Leadership, Democrats, and Bush Over Funding Bill

  A scathing special comment from Keith Olbermann, to say the least.

  Keith tore out on Senator Reid, Nancy Pelosi and just about all of the rest of the Democrats over their compromise bill with Bush and his war funding. Compromise is an overstatement since Bush pretty much gets what he wants.

   From MSNBC:

SPECIAL COMMENT

By Keith Olbermann

Countdown

A Special Comment about the Democrats’ deal with President Bush to continue financing this unspeakable war in Iraq—and to do so on his terms:

This is, in fact, a comment about… betrayal.

Few men or women elected in our history—whether executive or legislative, state or national—have been sent into office with a mandate more obvious, nor instructions more clear:

Get us out of Iraq.

Yet after six months of preparation and execution—half a year gathering the strands of public support; translating into action, the collective will of the nearly 70 percent of Americans who reject this War of Lies, the Democrats have managed only this:

• The Democratic leadership has surrendered to a president—if not the worst president, then easily the most selfish, in our history—who happily blackmails his own people, and uses his own military personnel as hostages to his asinine demand, that the Democrats “give the troops their money”;
• The Democratic leadership has agreed to finance the deaths of Americans in a war that has only reduced the security of Americans;
• The Democratic leadership has given Mr. Bush all that he wanted, with the only caveat being, not merely meaningless symbolism about benchmarks for the Iraqi government, but optional meaningless symbolism about benchmarks for the Iraqi government.
• The Democratic leadership has, in sum, claimed a compromise with the Administration, in which the only things truly compromised, are the trust of the voters, the ethics of the Democrats, and the lives of our brave, and doomed, friends, and family, in Iraq.

You, the men and women elected with the simplest of directions—Stop The War—have traded your strength, your bargaining position, and the uniform support of those who elected you… for a handful of magic beans.
You may trot out every political cliché from the soft-soap, inside-the-beltway dictionary of boilerplate sound bites, about how this is the “beginning of the end” of Mr. Bush’s “carte blanche” in Iraq, about how this is a “first step.”
Well, Senator Reid, the only end at its beginning... is our collective hope that you and your colleagues would do what is right, what is essential, what you were each elected and re-elected to do.
Because this “first step”… is a step right off a cliff.

  Reading this does not cut it, you have to hear Keith do this one.

   So, go watch the video HERE

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