Death and Revenge
The Iraqi government and the U.S. military in Baghdad keep insisting that the sectarian violence is not a civil war.
CNN correspondent Michael Ware says: “it's easy to deny that this is a civil war, when you live in the Green Zone, the most heavily fortified place in Iraq. However, for the people living on the streets of Iraqi, if this is not civil war, then they do not want to see what one really looks like.”
On Nov. 23rd over 200 Iraqis were killed when Sunni neighborhoods shelled Shia neighborhoods, and Shia neighborhoods shelled back. Sunni communities have dug positions to protect their streets. Sunni extremists set off car bombs in heavily populated Shia marketplaces. The following night Sunni gunmen stormed two Shiite homes and killed 21 men from two families north of the Iraqi capital.
Institutionalized Shia death squads in legitimate police and national police commando uniforms are going to Sunni homes in the middle of the night and dragging them out. On average, 40 to 50 tortured, mutilated bodies are showing up on Baghdad streets every morning and thousands of dead bodies are mounting up every month. There is a growing list of those who have simply disappeared, because they have the wrong Sunni or Shia name. Parents cannot send their children to school, because they have to cross a sectarian line.
On Nov. 25th it was reported that Shiite militiamen seized six Sunnis as they left prayer services, drenched them with kerosene and burned them alive, while Iraqi soldiers stood by and did nothing.
The situation is deteriorating rapidly. Muqtada al-Sadr is threatening to boycott the government of al-Maliki if he meets with President Bush. Prime Minister Maliki has no popular base and lacks an armed militia, which is the currency of political power in Iraq.
Our military is desperate to put any kind of reasonable face on this apparition, they call the Iraqi government. Retired Lieutenant General Bernard Trainor claims that it’s a power struggle, for who is going to run the “political fiction” called Iraq, and our military has been incidental to this process and will remain incidental.
CNN correspondent Michael Ware says: “it's easy to deny that this is a civil war, when you live in the Green Zone, the most heavily fortified place in Iraq. However, for the people living on the streets of Iraqi, if this is not civil war, then they do not want to see what one really looks like.”
On Nov. 23rd over 200 Iraqis were killed when Sunni neighborhoods shelled Shia neighborhoods, and Shia neighborhoods shelled back. Sunni communities have dug positions to protect their streets. Sunni extremists set off car bombs in heavily populated Shia marketplaces. The following night Sunni gunmen stormed two Shiite homes and killed 21 men from two families north of the Iraqi capital.
Institutionalized Shia death squads in legitimate police and national police commando uniforms are going to Sunni homes in the middle of the night and dragging them out. On average, 40 to 50 tortured, mutilated bodies are showing up on Baghdad streets every morning and thousands of dead bodies are mounting up every month. There is a growing list of those who have simply disappeared, because they have the wrong Sunni or Shia name. Parents cannot send their children to school, because they have to cross a sectarian line.
On Nov. 25th it was reported that Shiite militiamen seized six Sunnis as they left prayer services, drenched them with kerosene and burned them alive, while Iraqi soldiers stood by and did nothing.
The situation is deteriorating rapidly. Muqtada al-Sadr is threatening to boycott the government of al-Maliki if he meets with President Bush. Prime Minister Maliki has no popular base and lacks an armed militia, which is the currency of political power in Iraq.
Our military is desperate to put any kind of reasonable face on this apparition, they call the Iraqi government. Retired Lieutenant General Bernard Trainor claims that it’s a power struggle, for who is going to run the “political fiction” called Iraq, and our military has been incidental to this process and will remain incidental.
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