Sliding towards chaos.
Sliding? Good grief.
From the DailyKos, which got the article from the New York Times: Military Chart Confirms Iraq Is Sliding Towards Chaos.
Is this like being a little bit pregnant?
Six days until election day in the US. You know what to do, right?
103 US troops killed in Iraq in 31 days. I stopped counting the Iraqi death reports a week ago. Too goddamn depressing. However, yesterday, a car bomb killed 15 people in a wedding procession, including four children; five gunmen were found dead in an orchard; 42 Shiites were kidnapped because... they're Shiite; eight people found shot execution style... and it goes on and on.
See also: Baghdad is under siege:
- upwards of 1,000 Iraqis are dying violently every week;
- Shia fighters have taken over much of Baghdad; the Sunni encircle the capital;
- the Iraqi Red Crescent says 1.5 million people have fled their homes within the country;
- the Shia and Sunni militias control Iraq, not the enfeebled army or police
You know why this is going on, right?
Six days until election day in the US. You know what to do, right?
History lesson: Turning the Corner Into Madness, by Robert Scheer.
2 comments:
Look at it as kind of a renaissance fair, except we're in the 1870's and 1880's and it's a British imperialism theme with khakis and kilts and pith helmets and Gardner and Maxim guns and pipers playing "Cock o' the North" and "Barren Rocks of Aden" as the tribesmen on the Northwest Frontier and Yemen ambush the Highlanders and Guards from their rocky perches.
Or we can just go march on Washington and scare the bejeezus out of all those young Republican staffers manning Uncle Karl's political combat information center . . .
Yes, nothing ever changes does it?
I don't think those kids can be scared. They are working for Unkle Karl, afterall. I could be dead wrong, I was a kid in the 60's and 70's, but I think this time the ideologies are more firmly entrenched and add right-wing wackiness to the equation and you get people who cannot be budged from their positions.
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