So, Baghdad is "Getting More and More Like Mogadishu Every Day"!

[leftchick]

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/article327331.ece

Isn't this just swell? I love the smell of meriKan style democracy on the march....

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The paramilitaries are not held responsible for all the deaths - some are the work of insurgents murdering supposed informers or government officials, or killing for purely sectarian motives.

You very seldom see American soldiers on the streets of Baghdad now. The Iraqi police are in evidence outside, but so are increasing numbers of militias running their own checkpoints - men in balaclavas or wrap-around sunglasses and headbands, with leather mittens and an array of weapons. An American official acknowledged: "It is getting more and more like Mogadishu every day."

Travelling through the Iraqi capital you meet Muqtada al-Sadr's Mehdi army; fellow Shias from the Badr Brigade; the Kurdish peshmerga; as well as Western and Iraqi security guards. Then there are Iraqi soldiers and policemen, government paramilitaries, special police commandos and a group which prides itself on being the most feared, the Wolf Brigade of the interior ministry.

[The Magistrate]

1. Indeed, Ma'am

The civil war is already begun; we are simply a faction in it. At street level the real control is held b the various faction militias. One item overlooked by those who bawl that if the U.S. departed, the puppet government we have created would be quickly overthrown by jihadi gangs is that many of these faction militias are both sizeable and hostile to the Sunni and Wahabbi jihadis, and would probably make short work of them absent U.S. presence.

[leftchick]

3. Very true indeed, Sir,

I say bring the troops home now and let the jihadis sort it out among themselves. They will eventually anyway.

[TexasLawyer]

2. "...waging a savage war in the shadows."

In the shadows, indeed. We in the US have to read about these developments in foreign newspapers.

[Jacobin]

4. We've created a failed state with the world's second largest oil

reserves.

How very convenient for the jihadists.

I'll give old George this....when he screws something up, he REALLY screws things up. But I guess Poppy has known that for a long time.

[leftchick]

5. well I am sure poopy knew

He has been bailing him out his entire life. You would think he would have known better than to let the dimson take the WH. He ain't going to be able to bail him outs this.