After days of thinking the current violence in Iraq war an American Operation against Moqtada al-Sadr, I apologized for being paranoid when Crocker said otherwise. I take it back. I unapologize!
At least 14 Iraqi civilians were killed in clashes in Baghdad today; nine of the casualties occurred in Sadr City, the Mahdi Militia’s stronghold that “has been under siege since last week by about 1,000 U.S. and Iraqi troops.” Three American troops were also killed, and hundreds of Iraqis fled Baghdad “as U.S. and Iraqi forces increased pressure on anti-American cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, who faces an ultimatum to either disband his Mahdi Army or give up politics.”
The timing is just to pat. Crocker and Petraeus in Washington. McCain’s major Iraq War speech. And all the stuff I mentioned before. This is American Republican Theatrics 101, nothing less. It’s actually getting a lot of Americans and Iraqi people killed; it’s not working very well; and it’s clearly our taking sides in a Shiite Civil War.
But what else is new? …
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