5 more U. S. soldiers died.
The wife of Prime Minister Maliki was almost assassinated.
10 Iraqi soldiers were killed at a checkpoint.
The Sunnis nominated for ministerial positions are rejected by the Shiite government.
Monday, May 05, 2008
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All that's left is for dunce propagandists like Strata to ignore the rebounding violence of the resilient Sunni-- and Shia- insurgency by attempting to portray Iran as exclusively in al Sadr's corner and thus to instigate war with an Iran which indeed supports virtually all Shia sides in the combat, making America'strategic position marginal. Marginal, unless the mongers can successfully enlarge the war, going for broke, against the odds, in which their imperial hubris gets the better of them yet again, believing the quagmire can thus be overcome.
I'm betting that Strata-types are often so M.I.C. connected they realize the jeopardy in which an attack on Iran will place the US soldier occupying Iraq-and choose to go for broke anyway. A shame.
Ken,
There's another angle to this. Historically, the conservatives need an external enemy because there is too little to hold the disparate sub-groups (fiscal con, theo-con, neo-con, libertarians, etc.) together.
A war with Iran would help unify the cons and that would help them in elections.
Steve
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paleoconservatism#Anti-intervention
Some groups are immune to this, however. I believe Israel-firster David Frum labelled them the "unpatriotic conservatives" in a front page NR a few years ago.
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