Iraq: A Descent into Civil War?

[G_j]

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines04/0915-01.htm
Published on Wednesday, September 15, 2004 by the Guardian/UK

Iraq: A Descent into Civil War?

by Luke Harding in Baghdad

Lying amid the debris strewn near Al-Karkh police station was the photo of a young man in a blue T-shirt. The passport snap had been part of his application to join Iraq's police force.

Yesterday, however, he and dozens of other recruits queueing outside the station in central Baghdad were blown to pieces by a car bomb. Near the photo, someone had heaped the shoes of the dead and injured into a neat pile.

The destruction from the suspected suicide blast which killed 47 people and injured 114 was everywhere: bits of metal, glass, a broken billiard table, a dead bird and pools of blood.

There was nothing left of the recruit in the photo.

..more..

[salinen]

1. In an Iraqi election

between Saddam & *, guess who would win?

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

2. Memories of Cambodia.

Which we "helped" on the path to democracy by bombing the hell out of it and make "incursions" into it. Which all ended in a horrific civil war and the reign of the Khmer Rouge which we gave support to against Vietnam.

But, of course, it was a noble cause, keeping those folks from having the kind of government they wanted.

Just as we are now "installing" democracy in Iraq with aid of gunships, bombs, and torture.

[pretzel4gore]

4. no wonder they depict their god

as a heartless, sex obsessed creep...

[aquart]

3. So how many of us told them this would happen? (Raising hand.)

[truthspeaker]

7. Only a few million of us

Including some three star generals, CIA analysts, and senior diplomats. Oh yeah, the president of France, the Prime Minister of Germany, and a few other longhairs.

[LisaL]

9. Well, civil war sure was something

predictable.
I feel so sorry for these people. We have gone in, destroyed their country, and even if we leave, their lives are not going to be any good.

[kaitykaity]

5. As predicted.

Iraqi and Iranian Shia together, the Kurds want their
own state, and the Sunni becoming an oppressed minority
a la the Palestinians.

It was only a matter of time.

[G_j]

6. "Rumsfeld and pals in unison:

"HUGH???????" :shrug:

[G_j]

8. kick