Mosque Bombing Shows Bush Strategy Is Working in Iraq

Posted on February 25, 2006 by Sappho

CNN

This morn­ing I wrote:

There will be many US pro­pa­ganda TV pro­grams and arti­cles to pre­pare the Amer­i­cans for the Iraq civil war.

Read it here

Now, it’s not 24 hours yet when I said that and we get this on the CNN:

Mosque Bomb­ing Shows Bush Strat­egy Is Work­ing in Iraq

(Via CNN Pun­dit)

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10 Responses to Mosque Bombing Shows Bush Strategy Is Working in Iraq

  1. Charles says:
    February 25, 2006 at 23:11

    Here LB, as is typ­i­cal, is pre­sent­ing a head­line that sup­ports her hypoth­e­sis that the US wants civil war in Iraq. That this was the plan ‘all along.’

    If one were to actu­ally go beyond the head­lines, one would see that what Jef­frey is say­ing is that there might be a sil­ver lin­ing to these tragic events. This is sim­i­lar to what a very intel­li­gent Iraqi, Ali at A Free Iraqi, was try­ing to say.

    What if this vio­lence that has brought peo­ple to the edge of civil war, will actu­ally pro­vide the oppo­site result of that which was intended? Namely, the sim­mer­ing civil war and sec­tar­ian strife that has been going on for three years, must now be decided.

    Of course actual civil war will mean fail­ure for the US and Iraq, and mil­lions will die. Again, it means that the US pol­icy will have failed and the pol­icy of those who opposed the US will have succeeded.

    But per­haps the oppo­site will occur. Per­haps when pre­sented with the clar­ity of civil war and its hor­ri­ble con­se­quences, the lead­ers will step back and unite. They will have to make the hard deci­sions and take very dif­fi­cult and overt stances AGAINST the vio­lence and civil war. They are being forced to choose. The sunni will be forced to renounce attacks against the gov­ern­ment, get rid of AQ, etc., and the Shia will have to reign in their mili­tias. Deci­sions must be made. Very loud and clear deci­sions. Watch them care­fully and make sure you iden­tify the real ene­mies of peace.

    This is what Iraq has needed for a long time. For the par­ties to declare them­selves ‘for Iraq’, or ‘for them­selves.’ Its too bad that so much vio­lence was required, and the risk of all out civil war so great, before these deci­sions could be made.

  2. moron99 says:
    February 25, 2006 at 23:35

    if I was a dan­ish car­toon­ist then i would draw two large arabs stand­ing on a map of Iraq. Each of them would have a club behind their back. One would be wear­ing a tur­ban and the other a sui­cide vest and a belt of ammo. In between them would be a group of bat­terred and bloody Iraqis. In the back­ground would be an amer­i­can sol­dier smok­ing a cig­a­rette. In the fore­ground would be the Iraqi equiv­a­lent of lady jus­tice look­ing sternly at the two large arabs. And each of the two would be say­ing “it’s not my fault. the amer­i­can did it.”

    alas, I am not a cartoonist.

  3. Keld Bach says:
    February 26, 2006 at 06:46

    Pen­ta­gon: Iraqi troops down­graded:

    The bat­tal­ion, accord­ing to the Pen­ta­gon, was down­graded from “level one” to “level two” after a recent quar­terly assess­ment of its capabilities.

    “Level one” means the bat­tal­ion is able to fight on its own; “level two” means it requires sup­port from U.S. troops; and “level three” means it must fight along­side U.S. troops.

    Another sign of US ‘progress’ dur­ing almost three years of occu­pa­tion — impressing!

  4. Charles says:
    February 26, 2006 at 07:07

    Another sign of US ‘progress’ dur­ing almost three years of occu­pa­tion — impressing!

    Well, not really ‘occu­pa­tion’ since there is an elected Iraqi gov­ern­ment that together with the UN sup­ports our mission…

    But you are right. Its not impres­sive. I don’t know much about build­ing an army. Maybe our stan­dards are too high? Maybe the recruits don’t give a damn about their coun­try. Maybe they are con­flicted between tribal/ethnic loy­al­ties and national loyalty?

    Where did I read that a top sunni offi­cer lead­ing a brigade was just ‘purged’? How much of this purg­ing is going on? Not a good sign for sure.

  5. Keld Bach says:
    February 26, 2006 at 07:58

    The prob­lem is that they are being trained to fight their own peo­ple — mainly Sun­nis and Baath. That’s prob­a­bly not what they would like. They’ll turn against the real enemy as soon as they get the chance…

  6. Indigo says:
    February 26, 2006 at 11:48

    Hon­estly, the drib­bling, craven Amer­i­can media and the brain-washed, zom­bie Repub­li­cans are the most dis­gust­ing peo­ple on the planet.

    And even if the igno­ra­mus Charles isn’t paid by the FBI/CIA, he might as well be.

  7. Keld Bach says:
    February 26, 2006 at 13:31

    Iraq’s Sun­nis and Sadr’s move­ment make peace:

    The move­ment of fire­brand Shi­ite cleric Moq­tada al-Sadr, alleged to have played a role in the anti-Sunni vio­lence over the last few days, pub­licly made peace with polit­i­cal and reli­gious Sunni lead­ers on Saturday.

    Four sheikhs from the Sadr move­ment made a “pact of honor” with the con­ser­v­a­tive Sunni Mus­lim Schol­ars Asso­ci­a­tion, call­ing for an end to attacks on places of wor­ship, the shed­ding of blood and con­demn­ing any act lead­ing to sedition.

    The agree­ment was made in the par­tic­u­larly sym­bolic set­ting of Baghdad’s pre­mier Sunni mosque Abu Han­ifa where the Shi­ite sheikhs prayed under the guid­ance of promi­nent Sunni imam Abdel Salam al-Qubaissi.

  8. LadyBird says:
    February 26, 2006 at 14:12

    KB
    The prob­lem is not with Sadr, the sit­u­a­tion is there are many Shi­ite reli­gious gang­sters (with­out names) sup­ported by the gov­ern­ment attack­ing the Sunnis

  9. Keld Bach says:
    February 26, 2006 at 14:38

    Sure, LB. I just thought it was nice to see that at least a few of the involved parts are try­ing to act in a peace­ful way.

    I guess you’re talk­ing about these gang­sters: Iraq’s death squads:

    Hun­dreds of Iraqis are being tor­tured to death or sum­mar­ily exe­cuted every month in Bagh­dad alone by death squads work­ing from the Min­istry of the Inte­rior, the United Nations’ out­go­ing human rights chief in Iraq has revealed.

    John Pace, who left Bagh­dad two weeks ago, told The Inde­pen­dent on Sun­day that up to three-quarters of the corpses stacked in the city’s mor­tu­ary show evi­dence of gun­shot wounds to the head or injuries caused by drill-bits or burn­ing cig­a­rettes. Much of the killing, he said, was car­ried out by Shia Mus­lim groups under the con­trol of the Min­istry of the Interior.

  10. LadyBird says:
    February 26, 2006 at 14:41

    There are more news on Sadr but in Ara­bic I will post it soon.

    And yes this is what I am talk­ing about.