And on a more serious note...
More so called progress in Iraq! The death toll following yesterday's truck bombing in the northern part of Iraq now stands at at least 500.
The Tuesday truck bombs that targeted the villages of Qahtaniya, al-Jazeera and Tal Uzair, in northern Iraq near the border with Syria, were a "trademark al Qaeda event" designed to sway U.S. public opinion against the war, a U.S. general said Wednesday.Major General Mixon went on to say "this is an act of ethnic cleansing, if you will -- almost genocide when you consider the fact the target they attacked and the fact that these Yazidis, out in a very remote part of Nineveh province, where there is very little security and really no security required to this point."The attacks, targeting Kurdish villages of the Yazidi religious minority, were attempts to "break the will" of the American people and show that the U.S. troop escalation -- the "surge" -- is failing, Maj. Gen. Benjamin Mixon said.
The bombings highlight the kind of sectarian tensions the troop surge was designed to stop.
Get our troops out from the midst of the Iraqi civil war NOW!
2 comments:
But, wait. I keep hearing Very Serious People tell me the surge is working. What's going on? I'm so confused!
What I find the most offensive is the use of the word genocide. It doesn't fit here but is being used to draw up support for the war by playing on the emotions that the word stirs up for people. You hear "genocide", you think Holocaust and Darfur.
This was a terrorist attack. Not a systematic elimination of a group of people.
Just wait. We'll hear that we must stay in Iraq to prevent genocide and this will be cited as an example to confuse people.
It's got to stop.
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