The administration is working hard to paint this as the work of one "extremist cleric," but it seems clear enough to me: the Shiites, the ones they figured would support the occupation, do not support the occupation. Perhaps only the most "extreme" have openly expressed this with rocket launchers thus far. But you'd obviously be mistaken if you took the number of direct actors in the Oklahoma City bombing to be equal to the total number of radical reactionaries in the United States.
This means that America's current number of supporters in Iraq hovers somewhere between "the number of Iraqis we are currently paying a worthwhile salary" and zero.
Those of us marching in the street prior to the start of the war can say to Bush, "I told you so," but we can't say "we elected a congress with the balls to vote down your idiotic unilateral invasion and spare the lives of Iraqis and Americans both."
Bush's decision to abandon the Kurds in 1991 is touted as one of the big problems that we had to go back and fix. I doubt that Bush will be hanging the Kurds out to dry this time. If anything, Bush's father's mistake will predispose Dubya to stick with the Kurds far longer than is adivsable.
Kerry, on the other hand, doesn't have anyone's Kurd-betraying albatross hanging around his neck. If Kerry wins the white house, it's entirely likely that the Kurds will be up shit creek.
Maybe i'm just being cynical, but i think that the only albatross hanging around Dubya's neck was, "Those ragheads tried to kill my daddy!" The US Government will never give the Kurds any real support because it'll piss the Turks off.
I'd actually like to read more about the Bush Sr. assassination attempt. How far did they get? Did the NSA just intercept a message where Saddam said "boy I wish someone would kill that guy" or did a secret service guy have to leap in slow-motion while shouting "noooooooooo" to intercept the fatal bullet?
Bingo. I found a very good article not only about the foiled car bomb attempt to kill Bush Sr. during his visit to Kuwait, but the way that the bomb was linked to Iraqi intelligence services.
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This means that America's current number of supporters in Iraq hovers somewhere between "the number of Iraqis we are currently paying a worthwhile salary" and zero.
Those of us marching in the street prior to the start of the war can say to Bush, "I told you so," but we can't say "we elected a congress with the balls to vote down your idiotic unilateral invasion and spare the lives of Iraqis and Americans both."
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Kerry, on the other hand, doesn't have anyone's Kurd-betraying albatross hanging around his neck. If Kerry wins the white house, it's entirely likely that the Kurds will be up shit creek.
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