The Preview: Iraq Massacre

[DemReadingDU]

Over the past two days, warnings have spread through messages delivered to the cellphones of Sunni Muslims. In Arabic, they read:

"Very big armed groups are being formed in Sadr City, backed up by the Interior Ministry, to kill great numbers of the citizens of Baghdad once the curfew is lifted. Spread the word among our people."

It signed off: "A reliable source."

http://www.talkleft.com/story/2006/11/25/213225/48

from WP article...
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/11/25/AR2006112500253.html

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and our troops are caught in the middle

[aquart]

1. Did you think there was another way to take the city and hold it?

We don't have enough shrinks or pills in this country to deal with the soldiers we will be getting back after this.

And we are still allowing our fucking pundits to frame the discussion along the lines of good idea, bad execution...we need a better plan. THERE IS NO POSSIBLE PLAN AND THERE NEVER WAS. iT ALWAYS ALWAYS ALWAYS CAME DOWN TO HOW MANY IRAQIS DO YOU WANT TO KILL? ONE MILLION? TEN MILLION? That was all there was in the matter of choice. 300,000 American soldiers would not have been keeping the peace. They would have been killing Iraqis. More soldiers could have killed more Iraqis.

They don't like invaders. Still haven't forgiven the Crusades.

[DemReadingDU]

2. From Juan Cole's blog - Green Zone Assault Imminent?

leftchick posted this yesterday...
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x2801146

[Fire Walk With Me]

3. But did they ignore IMs from the president of the bank of Nigeria?

How wonderful if psy ops used spam to overthrow governments by fomenting civil war. Definitely 21st century stuff.