Looks like Obama gonna have to leave troops there and have a DRAFT, huh?
Oh, Lord, after the effort expended to end these damn things, to see them ceaselessly continue... or worse
"At least 9 dead in attacks in Iraq; Parliament passes bill granting fewer seats to minorities" by Sam Dagher and Mohammed al-Obaidi, New York Times News Service | November 4, 2008
BAGHDAD - A wave of violence, including an assassination attempt against a deputy oil minister, swept through Baghdad and neighboring Diyala Province yesterday as Parliament passed a bill that would grant the country's embattled minorities fewer guaranteed seats in upcoming elections.
The prospects for the enactment of the bill, which must still be approved by Iraq's executive council, are unclear. In the most lethal attack of the day, six people were killed and 20 wounded when two roadside bombs exploded in quick succession in front of the headquarters of the Ministry of Interior's criminal investigations unit in Baghdad's central Karada district, according to a source at the ministry who spoke anonymously because he was not authorized to speak to the media.
The deadliest of the bombs was planted in front of the protective concrete wall ringing the government building. The other was about 70 yards away. Two badly burned bodies were stretched on the street shortly after the explosions.
Something is tarting to STINK, readers.
"I cannot believe what happened," said a bewildered policeman at the scene, who said he had worked for the directorate for 35 years. "Who can plant a bomb in this fortified area in the presence of police patrols?"
I will tell you who, readers!!!!
See Occupation Iraq: Israel's IEDs and associated links within, readers.
The assassination attempt on the deputy oil minister came about 30 minutes before the Karada blasts. The official, Saheb Salman Qutub, was wounded along with his driver when a bomb planted in his car exploded, according to a ministry spokesman, Asem Jihad.
MOSSAD'S MO!!!
The attack happened as Qutub was getting into the car at his home in the northern Baghdad neighborhood of Ataifiya to go to work, said Jihad. The attack happened on a day a Japanese delegation visited the ministry to discuss investments in Iraq's lucrative oil and gas sectors.
And CUI BONO, 'eh?
In other violence yesterday, a huge car bomb exploded in a parking lot next to the headquarters of the local government in Baquba in Diyala Province, killing at least three and wounding 13, eight of them policemen, according to security and provincial officials. The blast destroyed 22 vehicles and badly damaged several government buildings located nearby.
Baquba? Rings a bell....
A US soldier patrolled in Baquba yesterday. A wave of violence swept through Baghdad and neighboring Diyala Province. (Goran Tomasevic/ Reuters)
Oh, no, there goes a BLEEDING-HEART REPUBLICAN from MASSACHUSETTS AGAIN!! Oh, the PRECIOUS LITTLE CHILDREN WHO NEVER DESERVED THIS INVASION, MASS-SLAUGHTER and DEVASTATION based on UNHOLY LIES!!!!
Oh, oh, we should have lifted sanctions 'cuz the crazy dictator righting romance novels under a surname was no threat, nor was his image invoked by his bureacracy to keep his people in line!!
Oh, oh, I can't take it!! SUCH PRECIOUS LIVES THOSE!! Sorry, AmeriKa, but the REVEREND is RIGHT: "God damn America!!!!!" And if he won't, I WILL!!
Ibrahim Bajlan, who heads the Diyala provincial council, said that the attack was proof that the situation in the province remained "fragile" and that the government's lauded recent security operation in Diyala had "only accomplished a fraction of its goals."
WTF?! The operation has been going on for MONTHS and I haven't seen a word about it in the MSM!! How many people were KILLED in that worthless effort, 'eh?
The attacks in Baghdad and Baquba came one day after American and Iraqi military officials said that overall levels of violence across the country were at their lowest since May 2004.
I'm tired of the LIES!
In a move that could stoke further tensions between Iraq's fractious ethnic and sectarian groups, Parliament voted yesterday in favor of a bill that would guarantee minorities significantly fewer seats on provincial councils than had been recommended by the UN Assistance Mission for Iraq. The bill would give Christians a single seat on councils in Baghdad, Basra, and Nineveh instead of the three seats proposed by the UN mission in each of Baghdad and Nineveh.
Oh, and CUI BONO? WHO BENEFITS from SECTARIAN VIOLENCE?
The Yazidis, a Kurdish-speaking minority who, like Christians, have been reeling from attacks and displacement since the start of the war in 2003, were given one seat in Nineveh instead of the three proposed.
Younadim Kanna, one of two Christians in Parliament, called yesterday's vote "a great insult." "There is no desire to respect minorities as the indigenous people of this country," said Kanna. --more--"
They had it better under Saddam!! This is the SURGE SUCCESS?
"Under Saddam Hussein, Iraq's million or so Christians for the most part coexisted peacefully with Muslims, both the dominant Sunnis and majority Shiites (New York Times October 17, 2007).... Sunnis, Shi'ites, and Christians lived side by side; many intermarried"
Ouch, Amurka!! You clear now about those "unappreciative Iraqis," readers?
