AP: Shiites burn six Sunni worshippers alive

[Eugene]

Posted on Fri, Nov. 24, 2006

Shiites burn six Sunni worshippers alive
QAIS AL-BASHIR
Associated Press

BAGHDAD, Iraq - Shiite militiamen grabbed six Sunnis as they left Friday
worship services, doused them with kerosene and burned them alive near
Iraqi soldiers who did not intervene, police Capt. Jamil Hussein said.

The savage revenge attack for Thursday's slaying of 215 people in the
Shiite Sadr City slum occurred as members of the Mahdi Army militia burned
four mosques, and several homes while killing an unknown number of Sunni
residents in the once-mixed Hurriyah neighborhood of Baghdad.

Gunmen loyal to radical anti-American Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr began
taking over the neighborhood this summer and most of its Sunni residents
already had fled.

http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/breaking_news/16089847.htm

[kurth]

1. Lovely - "Iraqi soldiers did not intervene"

Partition is inevitable.

[Schema Thing]

2. more like: genocide is unavoidable

[Kagemusha]

3. And people said it'd never get as bad as Beirut.

Those who do not recognize history welcome it at their doorsteps as an honored guest.

[Botany]

4. Thanx W

Dumb ass did not know about Shi ite or Sunni before starting this mess.

[kurth]

8. Saddam was the best thing that happened to Iraq

He was a monster, but he was the glue that held the mess together.

[davekriss]

11. That's like saying Mussolini was an angel...

...because, under him, the trains ran on-time.

[MGD]

12. At one time, plenty of people basically said just that actually.

[psychopomp]

21. Off-topic but that is, in fact, a myth

Under Mussolini, trains were notoriously late.

http://www.snopes.com/history/govern/trains.htm

[dmosh42]

17. Hold up the execution!

Bring back Saddam! Unbelievable!

[qwlauren35]

23. This is a real question

Is all of this violence coming as a result of the death sentence? Is there any likelihood that the violence would end if Hussein wasn't executed?

[dmosh42]

31. You may be right, but....

I think this is just a part of the civil war thing. These two sects have been fighting it out since Mohammed's death, and will probably go on long after we've left this earth.

[Eugene]

5. Reuters: Iraqi police say 30 killed in Baghdad clash

Iraqi police say 30 killed in Baghdad clash
24 Nov 2006 16:26:05 GMT
Source: Reuters

BAGHDAD, Nov 24 (Reuters) - Thirty people were killed and 48 more wounded
when gunmen attacked a Sunni Arab neighbourhood of Baghdad on Friday,
burning mosques and homes, a source at police headquarters said.

Accounts from residents in the Sunni Hurriya district also spoke of two dozen
or more dead and homes still ablaze after the attacks, a day after car bombs
killed more than 200 people in a Shi'ite district of the city.

Officials said the attackers burned four mosques in the assault as sectarian
tensions boiled over in the capital despite a curfew aimed at curbing violence.

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/PAR458982.htm

[smoogatz]

6. The only way we'll lose is if we quit!

The fact that we've triggered a sectarian bloodbath actually means we're winning. Because, you know, we're stuck in the middle of it.

[MGD]

7. I have to wonder how the Sunni's will retalliate now. Pass the popcorn please.

:popcorn:

[cali]

13. I don't think this is exactly a popcorn moment n/t

[MGD]

26. You got a better idea? Pop some corn, sit back and watch some CNN

and thank Jesus that the plague of madness hasn't reached our country. May it never.

[wickerwoman]

28. I'm sorry, but mass murder isn't a spectator sport.

And Americans sitting on their asses watching it on CNN saying ":shrug: those nutty Arabs, when will they ever learn to be civilized" is exactly why the rest of the world hates us.

That "plague of madness" started in Washington D.C. so your thanking Jesus is a little bit pointless.

[MGD]

32. OK, go do something else then. Let me know how much effect you have on the situation.

As for me, I'm just gonna sit back and watch and be thankful that this isn't going on in our country.

[Zhade]

37. Reprehensible, isn't it?

Some people have no compassion.

[Zhade]

36. Sounds like you would have loved the Coliseum.

Unfuckingbelievable. Such heartlessness. Such lack of empathy.

[MGD]

39. You're awfully quick to judge others, aren't you?

The Iraqis are the masters of their destiny, not I. Their situation is well beyond diplomatic repair now. All we can do is sit back and watch from a safe distance. What else would you have me do? More importantly, what else have you done?

[mom cat]

9. Mission Accomplished. ... Iraq is decimated/destroyed.

Who is left to keep the US from stealing the oil? With 14 permanent bases and plans for a huge embasy, there is no sign that we are leaving. Bush has said as much. The division and the chaos as well as the incited civil strife have all but guaranteed that there will be no strong Iraqi government to protect their resources.

[CBHagman]

10. How hideous.

And Bush meanwhile is on a holiday weekend. Talk about blind indifference.

[IntiRaymi]

14. Iraq war was good for Israel: Olmert

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20061122/wl_nm/israel_usa_iraq_dc_1

"I know all of his (Bush's) policies are controversial in America. There are some who support his policies in the Middle East, particularly in Iraq, and some who do not," he said.
"I stand with the president because I know that Iraq without Saddam Hussein is so much better for the security and safety of Israel, and all of the neighbors of Israel without any significance to us," added Olmert, who was speaking in English.
"Thank God for the power and the determination and leadership manifested by President Bush."



Fucking bastards

[acmavm]

16. There will be never-ending hatred from these people. I know I'd

hate a country that did this to my dying day if that were my child.

How many will now think that all they have to live for is revenge????

[ChairmanAgnostic]

18. even the IraqNamis are homesick for Saddam.

damnyou, Georgewbush.

[qwlauren35]

24. Is there a link?

Between Olmert's position and Lieberman's?

[superconnected]

15. WTF!

What kind of an animal human would do that to someone else!

Ultimately it's more blood on Bushs hands to let people fall into this since he took away order in that society.

[Kellyiswise]

19. And our children are being killed for these people? How tragic!

What will it take for Bush to suck it up and admit that he lied and that he was wrong and RESIGN!!! Anyone who considered himself a decent leader and human being would resign immediately and ask the nation for forgiveness as well as his God.

[mzmolly]

20. Our children are being killed for these people >

And for this >



This war was never about the people of Iraq, it was never about you and me, it was never about WMD's, it was never about terrorism.

Welcome to DU.

[0rganism]

38. And their children are being killed for nothing, nothing at all

While it is immensely tragic that our soldiers die in Iraq for the sake of war profiteers and GOP propaganda, they at least had a choice of careers, basic training, and something resembling a fighting chance of survival. Their deaths, at least, had a margin of avoidability.

The greater tragedy, it seems to me, is that their children -- yes, children, from 0 on up -- are exposed from the very start to a ridiculously high probability of death or mutilation of the most horrible sort. When a five year old girl holds her younger brother as he dies in her arms from U.S. soldier-inflicted gunshot wounds, that is high tragedy. And there is no choice, no training, and damn little in the way of chance.

Worse yet, that tragedy is thrice compounded. It makes a child-killer of the soldier, terrorists and insurgents of the child's family, and a global mockery of our nation's pretentions to justice.

Bush will not admit error or malfeasance, let alone take responsibility for such, because he is incapable of doing so. His entire worldview is rooted in lies and hypocrisy, of which he is fully aware, and his hold on power depends on his feigning ignorance of the same. Because his personality is overflowing with carelessness and rooted in privelege purchased with the lifeblood of others, he is uniquely well adapted to survive under these conditions.

LBJ resigned in 1968, but Bush is another sort of creature entirely.

[NVMojo]

22. time for Bush to do some on the job training in Iraq himself ...how

else can he truly fix the mess he got his country into over there Send Cheney too.

[BreweryYardRat]

25. Charming.

Fuck Iraq. Fuck religious infighting. This is as bad as the English Protestants who put "tar caps" on Irish Catholics back in the 1500s-1600s.

[Massachusetts]

27. FUBAR

[niceypoo]

29. But, but, but.....what about all the good things happening there?

Democracy flowering, schools and clinics being rebuilt......all the happy cheerful people dancing in pro american glee. Why doesn't the librul media ever report the good news????

Like this: Rebuilding in Iraq Tops 4,000 Projects(Good news the LSM is NOT reporting!) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1741919/posts

Or this:The good news from Iraq website! http://www.goodnewsiraq.com/

Lets celebrate with Bush the continuing success in Iraq (We just know they want us to never leave)!!!

:hide::hide::hide::hide::hide::hide::hide::hide:

[IndianaGreen]

30. Iraq is disintegrating right before our eyes

while our corporate media keeps babbling about the Baker-Hamilton group and their glorious plan for Iraq, aka Bush's fig leaf.

We need to get our troops out now before they are forced to fight their way out of that country.

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[CTLawGuy]

34. mission accomplished

Thanks George...

[Az_lefty]

35. Just keep repeating...

Mission Accomplished
Last Throws
It's not a Civil War
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