April 5, 2004, Holy Shiite! (sorry...)
IMHO, it was pretty inevitable that the results of Mr. Sykes and Monsieur Picot's' drawn up divisions in the World War I era, which made "Iraq" out of Kurdish, Sunni and Shia enclaves (and put the minority Sunni in dominion over the others) would eventually collapse. Amazingly, this arrangement held fast almost a century through a series of French colonial agents and eventually a series of dictatorships-- the last, of course, being Saddam Hussein's Baathist one. Well, we've known the Sunnis were upset with our ouster of Saddam, as the Sunni triangle had been the hotbed of anti-American occupation activity.
Well... what would happen if the majority Shia also decided that they too have had enough with the foreign invaders and interlopers? We got the answer: Iraqi Shiite Cleric Moqtada al-Sadr has declared open season on Coalition forces; he is now a wanted man. Around ten American troops were killed yesterday in what appears to be nationwide rioting in light of al-Sadr's call for an uprising against the occupation. (Unqualified Offerings feels that our little move of closing down al-Sadr's little toy newspaper may have been the day we lost the war; I, of course, feel that day was when the Supreme Court elected George W. Bush-- but you say tomato...)
This, boys and girls, is what we call "bad". Despite Senator Lugar's rather intelligent call to consider postponing the June 30th "sovereignty transfer" date in the event that Iraq isn't stable enough to transfer, the President has made it 100% clear that that date has absolutely NOTHING to do with conditions on the ground in Iraq and absolutely EVERYTHING to do with conditions here among the American polity: under no circumstances does the President want to OFFICIALLY be responsible for Iraq less than four months before the election.
So-- if the Iraqis are in the middle of a civil war (of OUR creation and responsibility), a civil war which, of course, will unquestionably be the almost ideal incubating conditions for more terrorists, of the Islamist and other varieties, well-- that's too damned bad.
Remember the cakewalk that was "the battle of Baghdad". Forget it: that battle is taking place even as I write this: the casualty count (which, as we know, in the occupation phase has dwarfed that of the combat phase) will only go up dramatically, until we get out one way or another (helicopters off the CPA HQ roof, as suggested by Veep Moomaw?)
So, as Baghdad burns while Condi plays her violin this week (actually, I understand she is a fine classical pianist). The President (and his direct overlord, the Vice-President) are "visiting with" the 9-11 Commission this week, to discuss the 9-11 events. (I believe the Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle would be the extent of the President's recollections; to help him along, I believe it goes "In the light of the moon a little egg lay on a leaf, the caterpillar emerges and yada yada yada he eats an apple, a pear, a plum, a strawberry, an orange, on Saturday he pigs out in an eating orgy, chills on Sunday and becomes a butterfly).
Do I resent the fact that clowns and knaves in Black robes have appointed clowns and knaves to sit in the White House? Oh yes...
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not only are they clowns and knaves but they are vindictive clowns and avaricious knaves....
a while ago I heard that Mary Cheney had had a baby...any truth to the rumor? I know she's a lesbian, but power can be an amazing aphrodisiac.
Posted by Sarah at April 6, 2004 01:58 PM
Regarding the first part of your post, Iraq was created by drawing lines on a map with no regard for (and probably no knowledge of) the existing tribal/religious enclaves. Is is now impossible to revisit the region and redraw lines to make more political/religious/social sense?
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