Sunday, May 28, 2006

Seems that this White House loves chaos.


Every time I hear Bush say that Americans are unsettled by what they see on their TV screens, about what is happening in Iraq, I cringe.

If Americans were really seeing what is happening in Iraq, there wouldn't be enough torches and pitchforks at Home Depots across the land for the ensuing march on Washington.

At least, I would like to think that there are still decent Americans who would be so horrified by the reality that is Iraq. that they would take back their Capitol from the monsters who have done this wicked thing.

Iraq Is the Republic of Fear:

"Every morning the streets of Baghdad are littered with dozens of bodies, bruised, torn, mutilated, executed only because they are Sunni or because they are Shiite. Power drills are an especially popular torture device.

I have spent nearly two of the three years since Baghdad fell in Iraq. On my last trip, a few weeks back, I flew out of the city overcome with fatalism. Over the course of six weeks, I worked with three different drivers; at various times each had to take a day off because a neighbor or relative had been killed. One morning 14 bodies were found, all with ID cards in their front pockets, all called Omar. Omar is a Sunni name. In Baghdad these days, nobody is more insecure than men called Omar. On another day a group of bodies was found with hands folded on their abdomens, right hand over left, the way Sunnis pray. It was a message. These days many Sunnis are obtaining false papers with neutral names. Sunni militias are retaliating, stopping buses and demanding the jinsiya , or ID cards, of all passengers. Individuals belonging to Shiite tribes are executed."

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