November 23, 2006
Time To Pick Sides, 140+ Dead In Sadr City
From a CNN report:
Police called it the deadliest single strike in Iraq since the war began more than three years ago.
Bombs and mortar shells struck Sadr City at 15-minute intervals, beginning about 3 p.m., according to The Associated Press, with the first bombing hitting a vegetable market.
Shiites responded almost immediately, the AP reported, firing 10 mortar rounds at the holiest Sunni shrine in Baghdad, the Abu Hanifa Sunni mosque in Azamiya. The attack killed one person and wounded 14 others, the AP said.
How much longer can the United States maintain a policy of unity between groups that are committed to our failure in Iraq? The National Unity government in Iraq is being delegitimized by forces committed to violence.
It's time to pick sides. Those committed to violence, those not willing to recognize the National Unity government must be destroyed.
It's time for action. The Shi'ite city of Al Sadr must be cordoned off. We must establish a shoot-on-sight policy for non-uniformed personnel. U.S. forces, in conjunction with the Iraqi Army, must sanitize the area. All weapons must be confiscated, bomb-making materials destroyed, and resistors shot.
Once sanitization is complete, we must not hand it to the enemy. We must only allow trusted partners to enter the area. At first, only military forces. Gradually, strategic partners can be allowed to enter. Only after a long period of time should Iraqi citizens be allowed to re-enter.
The message we must not send is that if you bloody our noses enough, the U.S. will give you Iraq. Instead, we must tell them, if you are not committed to peace in Iraq, you are its enemy. You will be destroyed.
Also...
- The REAL Great Satan at MY Vast Right Wing Conspiracy
Posted by Richard at November 23, 2006 10:38 AM
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