I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, there is absolutely no end in sight to the senseless destruction of life in Iraq. As bad as this sounds, the only way to control these animals is to have a more vicious animal in control. That other animal was Saddam Hussein.
When our former President (he of the low IQ) George W. Bush decided to invade Iraq with the made-up excuse of weapons of mass destruction, he set events in motion that will be felt for at least another generation to come. Bush’s decision to invade this country and “establish a democracy” demonstrates just how ignorant and out of touch his administration was in terms of the history of this country and the region in general. The Iraqi people are centuries away, if at all, from ever establishing a democracy. They are tribal people with a history of violence and will without hesitation slit their neighbor’s throat simply for their association with the “wrong” group, even if that group is also part of the same faith – Islam. The whole thing is crazy, but this is what religion does, it makes people crazy.
Again, these people do not know how to govern themselves, they need to be governed by a dictator who will keep the various factions within the country in check by use of terror and force. TGO
Refer to story below. Source: Associated Press
BAGHDAD – Al-Qaida in Iraq’s new leader warned Shiites on Friday that “dark days soaked with blood” lie ahead and that a new campaign of attacks was under way.
The warning comes just days after Iraq was wracked by the worst attack this year, a series of coordinated bombings and assassinations that killed 119 people — most of them Shiites and members of the security forces — across 10 cities.
The Iraqi insurgent umbrella group, the Islamic State of Iraq, named al-Nasser Lideen Allah Abu Suleiman as its new minister of war, replacing the Egyptian Abu Ayyub al-Masri, killed in a U.S.-Iraqi military strike on a safe house in April. The ISI counts al-Qaida as one of its member groups.
“Wait for the long gloomy nights and dark days soaked with blood,” said Abu Suleiman, addressing Iraq’s “polytheistic rejecters,” an insulting term for Shiites common among extremist Sunnis. “What is happening to you nowadays is just a drizzle.”
He spoke in an audio recording posted on militant websites Friday.
One of the major doctrinal disputes between Sunnis and Shiites can be traced back to the first three rulers of the Muslim community after the Prophet Muhammad. Shiites reject those first three successors as illegitimate.
Al-Qaida attacks on Shiite shrines in 2006 plunged the country into a bloody cycle of mutual sectarian attacks. A measure of fragile calm, however, has returned to Iraq in the past two years.
There are fears that with the new rounds of attacks, mostly targeting Shiites, al-Qaida is hoping to provoke a backlash against Sunnis and re-ignite the sectarian warfare that brought the country to the brink of civil war.
Abu Suleiman promised to “continue the path of jihad” and said his warriors had already begun “a new campaign of attacks on security and military checkpoints in Baghdad and elsewhere.”
During Monday’s attacks, violence in Baghdad consisted mainly of early morning strikes against security checkpoints that killed nearly a dozen police and military officials.
