This Is What Happens When You Vote For An Idiot

Iraq took a lethal step closer to disintegration and civil war yesterday after a devastating attack on one of the country’s holiest sites. The destruction of the golden-domed Shia shrine in Samarra sparked a round of bloody sectarian retaliation in which up to 60 Sunni mosques were attacked and scores of people were killed or injured.

The bomb attack has enraged the majority Shia population, who regard the shrine in the same way that Roman Catholics view St Peter’s in Rome.

In a number of respects civil war in Iraq has already begun. Many of the thousand bodies a month arriving in the morgues in Baghdad are of people killed for sectarian reasons. It is no longer safe for members of the three main communities ­ the Sunni and Shia Arabs and the Kurds ­ to visit each other’s parts of the country.

- The Independent

“January 2003 the President invited three members of the Iraqi opposition to join him to watch the Super Bowl. In the course of the conversation the Iraqis realized that the President was not aware that there was a difference between Sunni and Shiite Muslims. He looked at them and said, ‘You mean…they’re not, you know, there, there’s this difference. What is it about?’”

- former U.S. dilpomat Peter Galbraith


posted by greg on February 22, 2006 @ 6:39 pm

5 comments

  1. Civil war in Iraq began the day Sadaam’s statue was pulled down it’s just taken this for us over here to finally see it. The administration is still a long way aways from seeing it. The Neocons see their dream and little else. Reality means nothing to them until it comes through the bunker door. They need our money to dream their dream. Lets help them to awaken. Mike Meyer, Voter Initiative on the BUDGET AND TAXES, the final say-so from you the TAXPAYER.

    Comment by Mike Meyer — February 22, 2006 @ 8:54 pm

  2. Best blog entry title ever. I keep saying this. “This is what you get for voting this guy in.” Or the equally true variation, “this is what Gore gets for putting Lieberman in the ticket.” Same thing, really.

    Comment by Mark Spittle — February 23, 2006 @ 5:30 am

  3. 2/22 – the official date in history that the
    very uncivil war in Iraq began

    Comment by Lieutenant Breakfast — February 23, 2006 @ 5:49 am

  4. the five phases of Irakattak
    1)shock and awe
    2)stuff happens
    3)chaos
    4)insurgency
    5)civil war

    Comment by Lieutenant Breakfast — February 23, 2006 @ 7:43 am

  5. Who could have possibly seen this coming?
    (sarcastic,rhetorical question)

    Comment by dAVE — February 23, 2006 @ 4:33 pm

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