Sunday (London) Times: Ferocity of Iraq attacks leaves US troops helpless [View All]

[Mark E. Smith]

The Sunday Times November 26, 2006

MORE than 3 1/2 years after President George W. Bush launched an invasion of
Iraq, which his supporters proclaimed as a "cakewalk," American troops were
yesterday engulfed in a wave of sectarian bloodletting that threatens to destroy
the Iraqi govt and may jeopardise a crisis summit this week with Nouri al-Maliki,
the prime minister.

US forces were reduced to near-impotent bystanders as the violence ignited by
Thursday's car bomb attacks on Shi'ite targets in Baghdad spawned a spiral of
revenge.

After a series of attacks on Sunni mosques on Friday, insurgents in Diyala
province were reported yesterday to have stormed two Shi'te houses and
murdered 21 men in front of their relatives. A suicide car bomber yesterday
attacked a joint US-Iraqi checkpoint near Fallujah, killing three civilians and one
American soldier.

The violence closed Baghdad airport and forced the cancellation of a planned
trip to Iran by Jalel Talabani, the Iraqi president, who was hoping to enlist the
help of the Shi'ite regime in Tehran in quelling the sectarian strife.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2089-2472223,00.html

Anybody sobered Georgie up yet?