The battle the US wants to provoke

[Vladimir]

From the Guardian:

I heard the sound of freedom in Baghdad's Firdos Square, the famous plaza where the statue of Saddam Hussein was toppled one year ago. It sounds like machine-gun fire.

On Sunday, Iraqi soldiers, trained and controlled by coalition forces, opened fire on a demonstration here. As the protesters returned to their homes in the poor neighbourhood of Sadr City, the US army followed with tanks, helicopters and planes, firing at random on homes, shops, streets, even ambulances. According to local hospitals, 47 people were killed and many more injured. In Najaf, the day was also bloody: 20 demonstrators dead, more than 150 injured.

In Sadr City yesterday, funeral marches passed by US military tanks and the hospitals were overflowing with the injured. By afternoon, clashes had resumed.

read more at: http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,1186566,00.html

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[Hekate]

1. "Can you say Vietnam?"

We can't leave by the turnover date, not without making a worse mess than we have already. And Bushco is making sure we do have a "worse mess," enough so that Kerry will not be able to pull out either.

I am thinking of the goddess Nemesis...

Thirteen months ago this week the diplomat John Brady Kiesling resigned from his long career in foreign service and his letter to Colin Powell was published in the NY Times.

On Kiesling's last night in Greece he gathered with his friends at the ancient Temple of Nemesis. He talked about the goddess's function as the one who punishes those who overstep boundaries, and how she played a part in the war between the Greeks and the Persians. At the end, Kiesling poured a glass of wine in libation upon the ground of the Temple of Nemesis, and said, "God help the United States of America."

Hekate

[mmonk]

2. Another reason this war was a bad idea

(something the blind cult followers of the Republican extreme right can't grasp because they are so drunk on right wing propaganda) and that is, in war, you can't control all outcomes. The possibility of an Islamic State similar to Iran is a real possibility.

[dbt]

3. All Hail The Confluence Of Politics And Religion!

The streets shall run with the blood of the Infidel and the Few shall prosper over the bodies of the Many. Bring out the Lambs!

:crazy:
dbt