Smells Like Victory

With U.S. troops imminently preparing to pull out of Iraqi cities, violence in that country is spiking. Iraq seems once again to be on the verge of the kind of sectarian warfare that wracked the country in 2005.

What a great victory this has been for our country!

With less than a week left before the Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA) deadline for US troops to leave Iraqi cities, a week of anti-Shi’ite bombings has left nearly 200 civilians dead and has seriously damaged the credibility of the Iraqi government to handle security in the nation.

A bomb at a bus station in a Shi’ite neighborhood in southwest Baghdad today killed at least seven people and wounded 31 others. In most cities, such a story would be called an appalling calamity. In Baghdad its (sic) called Thursday.

Violence is up across Iraq, and nowhere is that more plain to see than in the various Shi’ite neighborhoods of Iraq. Only yesterday a vegetable cart exploded in Sadr City, another Shi’ite district of Baghdad, killing at least 76 and wounding well over 100 others. Just days before that an attack in the northern city of Kirkukdestroyed a Shi’ite mosque and killed at least 80.

I wonder how long we have to wait before Obama puts an end to this sorry business.

I suppose it's too much to ask that someone be held responsible for this crime against the human race.

The hundreds killed this week will just be added to the million or so Iraqi war dead that this country is responsible for so far. And who gives a damn about them? These are people about whom the U.S. government obviously cares less than nothing.

We need to get serious about stopping the war machine. We're already accomplices.