Comments on: Iraqis Burned Alive In Revenge Attacks

Mosques And Homes Burned, Unknown Number Killed Following Massive Attack On Shiite Slum

[edwindark]

Unlike places like Irag, Iran, and the other so-called Cradles of Civilization, Bush, Cheney, et al will step down without bloodshed when their terms expire. No revolution, no bloodshed, no torturing and killing others who belong to a different political or religious party. A peaceful transition of power from one group to another just as it has been since the founding of the great United States of America.

The world just witnessed American justice and peace when the Democrats won back the House and Senate and the Republicans in true American spirit accepted their defeat--without firing a shot in anger or burning down houses of worship!

Shiites and Sunnis are killing each other in Arab countries when one group wins over another. Do you see such idiotic response and bloodshed in America?

Where do we find such a peaceful transition in the Arab world? Egypt? Syria? Iran? Jordan? Saudi Arabia?

I don't remember reading any stories lately about people being burned alive when they left church in America or Britain or France or Germany or any of the other civilized Western cultures!

Bush, Cheney, et al were legally elected under an American system of democracy that is not found in the barbaric and medieval Arab world where burning worshipers alive seems to be an acceptable response to any small dissatisfaction.

Who are the real criminals? Where is this so-called religion of peace?

[nothappyatall]

Bring on the civil war in Iraq and help slap BUSH in the face for starting all this!!!!!!!!

Impeach this moron NOW!!!!!

[alphaa10-2009]

The Bush regime is a criminal act in progress. Bush and Cheney and co-conspirators sought objectives in Iraq which had nothing whatever to do with national security or al Qaeda. To conceal their designs, Bush, Cheney and co-conspirators lied to the American people in congress assembled, and to this day continue to lie about the reasons and justification for the American presence in Iraq.

The ten secret, multibillion-dollar military bases Halliburton builds are intended to provide American control of Iraqi oil for decades to come, and a power projection base for further American military intervention in the region. The billion-dollar American embassy bunker in the heart of Baghdad has essentially the same purpose.

The brazen criminal act of Bush and his co-conspirators goes down in history as the worst and most costly political scandal in American history, a black mark of shame on all who supported and endorsed Bush and his party. We who witness the suffering of American soldiers, their families and Iraqi civilians must do all in our power to end this criminal administration. Lies created Iraq, but more lies will not prevent disaster of major proportions.

[alphaa10-2009]

Partitioning Iraq--
Partitioning the country is likely, simply because (1) Iraq is not a nation, but a political amalgam crafted by Europeans after WWI (2) partitioning Iraq allows all sides to win something, since the violence stops, and there is no longer the issue of US withdrawal from Iraq, because there is no Iraq. The Sunnis join Syria, the Shia join Iran and the poor Kurds have no sponsor but us and a lot of diplomacy-- for example, letting Turkish Kurds migrate safely to the south to join the Kurds in North Iraq. The Turks might buy in, because that would depopulate the Kurdish rebellion in south Turkey.

In the British model for partitioning, lines are drawn and refugees allowed to pass to their home sector. In the case of India, there was no effective officialdom to safeguard passage, and groups of refugees of opposite faiths set upon each other with massive carnage. Obviously, the way to avoid that is to have the US forces-- under auspices of the UN-- shepherd the respective groups. There is no other means to keep each side from attacking refugees of the other.

[alphaa10-2009]

Partitioning Iraq-- 2
Yes, Iran would get something out of it, but so would the Saudis in secured protection for the Shia. The end point being, regional resolution of a regional problem. More than one diplomat has counseled an end to unilateralism from Bush, because he obviously does not have the attention of anybody-- least of all, those who count most.

Iraq is the epicenter of a web of political fault lines and a history predating the United States, so the height of folly is Bush imposing his Emerald City of Democracy. Only a neocon with oil reserves in his eyes would think like that... only a neocon would want to.

[firststate]

Curfew in Iraq seems to mean that the police and Iraqi army aren't allowed on the streets. It doesn't seem to have stopped anyone else.

The people who object to partitioning Iraq must be more impressed than I with the result of arbitrarily putting the 3 areas/groups of such diverse ethnicities and religions together back in the last century. The only time they got along was under a brutal dictator who didn%u2019t allow otherwise. The Shia might just have to "depend upon the kindness of strangers" or the Saudis. They had no oil in their region before they were included in Iraq. al-Maliki has as much independence from the other Shi-ites as they choose to give him and they aren%u2019t known as champions of the rights of minorities.

There is no reason for the Shia to meaningfully participate in a democratic government with the Sunni. They have the numbers and at some point are sure to act the way Bush did when the only checks and balances from the Congress were the blank checks they gave him and watching the balances plummet. When the opposition can%u2019t effectively stop the majority they tend to get carried away. Anyone think some ethnic cleansing isn%u2019t on the horizon of a unified Iraq?

The only group in Iraq who haven%u2019t said the US should get out or set a timetable for withdrawal are the Kurds. Since the others want us out, maybe the only delay should be regrouping to be able to protect against attack from the rear on the way out.

[firststate]

Was Cheney supposed to be in Baghdad to learn about burning people alive since he isn%u2019t a very good shot?

[newsnsean]

Too much death.

[hamiltongrad]

With this detailed gory coverage we 1. Now know what the Jews in Israel have been putting up with all these years. 2. Suspect that the "even handed" reporting of our media has been a national disaster- since it shielded us from the true Evil of this ? Culture, where bully govern and kill innocent people esp. and torture and weird stuff we never imagined. 3. Now know that our Universities are full of crapola, braying about "ALL CULTURES ARE THE SAME. " THAT IS PRETTY PRETTY STUPID.

If anything, Iraq is a success in that it has educated us about what these not job ISlamicfascists want to do, and will do.

[allgood34]

I love reading reading about those idiots killing themselves on a daily basis. I think they should kill each other faster. The faster they kill themselves off the faster our uniformed service can stop fighting a losing battle and come home. There will never be peace in the mideast as long as people walk the deserts there. Look at history. As far back as it is written those fools have been killing each other in the name of their God so lets help them out. Lets bring home everyone and just nuke the place. With all of the mideast nuked the world will have very few terrorists left. Who are the terrorists? 99% of them are muslims from the mideast anyway. Nuke em before they can blow anything else up.

Thats all