Feb 23 2006
Civil war
What with Dick Cheney gunning a man down, George W. Bush giving our ports away to terrorist-supporting Arab countries and all the corruption in the Republican Congress, we haven’t been paying a lot of attention lately to what has been happening in Iraq. It seems that country is moving closer to all-out civil war by the minute…
Sectarian Violence Surges After Shrine Bombing BAGHDAD, Feb. 23 — A wave of sectarian strife and recrimination swept Iraq Thursday after Wednesday’s bombing of a revered Shiite shrine in the city of Samarra. The interior ministry said that more than 100 people have been killed in the violence.
Officials in Baghdad, struggling to restore order, expanded an existing curfew in an effort to get people off the streets after dark and canceled all leaves for Iraqi security forces.
The process of forming a new government also appeared to be in jeopardy, as some Sunni politicians, protesting what they said was a lack of protection for Sunni mosques attacked overnight, said they were pulling out of negotiations with Shiite parties.
There were a great number of disturbances reported across the country Wednesday night and Thursday, too many to accurately track let alone verify.
Things are really going great in George’s War, aren’t they? You have to keep in mind, though, that this is the “liberal press” reporting. If you want to know the truth about how great things are going over there, you have to go read some right-wing weblogs.
