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[burrowowl]

Civil War or troubling other:

http://riverbendblog.blogspot.com/


It must be really terrible to be in the situation she describes.

[burrowowl]

1. Here is an excerpt

Volatile Days...
The last few days have been unsettlingly violent in spite of the curfew. We’ve been at home simply waiting it out and hoping for the best. The phone wasn’t working and the electrical situation hasn’t improved. We are at a point, however, where things like electricity, telephones and fuel seem like minor worries. Even complaining about them is a luxury Iraqis can’t afford these days.

The sounds of shooting and explosions usually begin at dawn, at least that’s when I first sense them, and they don’t really subside until well into the night. There was a small gunfight on the main road near our area the day before yesterday, but with the exception of the local mosque being fired upon, and a corpse found at dawn three streets down, things have been relatively quiet.

[BuyingThyme]

2. kcik

[neweurope]

3. kick

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Remember Fallujah

Bush to The Hague!

[Paradise]

4. kick. n/t

[magellan]

5. Consider these excerpts:

It does not feel like civil war because Sunnis and Shia have been showing solidarity these last few days in a big way. I don’t mean the clerics or the religious zealots or the politicians- but the average person. Our neighborhood is mixed and Sunnis and Shia alike have been outraged with the attacks on mosques and shrines.

(snip)

Yesterday they were showing Sunni and Shia clerics praying together in a mosque and while it looked encouraging, I couldn’t help but feel angry. Why don’t they simply tell their militias to step down- to stop attacking mosques and husseiniyas- to stop terrorizing people? It’s so deceptive and empty on television- like a peaceful vision from another land. The Iraqi government is pretending dismay, but it's doing nothing to curb the violence and the bloodshed beyond a curfew. And where are the Americans in all of this? They are sitting back and letting things happen- sometimes flying a helicopter here or there- but generally not getting involved.

[burrowowl]

8. The Iraqis seem to be keeping

a cool head.
Here is hoping for all, including our troops, that cool heads prevail.
However, this is going to be a test for the Iraqi Gov.

[tom_paine]

6. kick

[madokie]

7. So important but so hard to read, What has this madman of ours

done, how do we undo it before it boils over onto our shores. How much longer must we endure a failed policy. But most important, is how long must the Iraqi people be punished for something they didn't do and for the most part until we invaded they actually had some semblance of respect for us, not anymore i'm sure. My heart is so heavy with the atrocities that we done to the Vietnamese people, now we are doing the same with the Iraqi. Yes, this morning I feel that we as a nation in on the way down, just gone too far to be able to return without some serious hardships of our own. As a person we don't deserve it, as a people I don't know any more. Riverbend my heart is with you and yours, not all americans are so despicable.:cry: :mad: