The war whore wingnuts used to argue that Iraq wasn't in a civil war in an attempt to defuse one of the reasons given for withdrawal. Now that Shiites are fighting Shiites, that defense of the war is "no longer operative."
Iraq's Shiite clerics deeply divided on militia crackdown
By SELCAN HACAOGLU – 6 hours ago
BAGHDAD (AP) — Shiite clerics offered sharply different visions Friday in the showdown between government forces and Shiite militias — one predicting that armed groups will be crushed in Baghdad and another calling for the prime minister to be prosecuted for crimes against his people.
The contrasting views — given during weekly sermons — showed the complexities and risks in the five-week-old crackdown on Shiite militia factions. The clashes have brought deep rifts among Iraq's Shiite majority and have pulled U.S. troops into difficult urban combat in the main militia stronghold in Baghdad.
A key aide to al-Sadr told worshippers that al-Maliki is following the same path as Saddam Hussein, who persecuted Shiites and others seen as threats.
"Al-Maliki should be tried for the crimes he committed against his people," Shiite Sheik Asaad al-Nassiri said in a sermon in the city of Kufa, near the Shiite holy city of Najaf. Al-Sadr is currently in the Iranian seminary city of Qom.
Al-Nassiri accused the government of "slipping into the same trench the tyrant (Saddam) had slipped into by shedding innocent blood."
Saturday, May 03, 2008
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"used to?" AJ Strata offered the same story today as evidence of the improving status of the Iraq War. I see it as what Mike Scheuer calls "Imperial hubris," in this instance a total lack of empathy of what is involved in an occupied country's ethnic/religious group's
violent in-fighting.
Ken,
Strata is delusional and let's not forget that he and others like him are part of the GOP's base.
strata-sphere.com/blog/index.php/archives/5386
Yep, delusional. Iraq's delegation to Iran denies Iranian sabatoge of Iraqi stability:
"Government spokesman Ali al-Dabbagh said there was no “hard evidence” of involvement by the neighbouring Shiite government of Iran in backing Shiite militiamen in the embattled country."
Strata interprets the denial thusly:
"There seems to have been some markers laid down to Iran which must be met, or else the US will take action. Iraq knows this, which is why they gave Iran one last chance to change its collision course with America."
Concluding with the tiresome implication that almost all Iraqis recognize the American occupier as their savior against the Mahdis, and all insurgent factions, never admitting that the majority of Iraqis blame the American invasion for the insurgency and anarchy in the first instance-and want the occupier out.
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