Baghdad is under siege

[Duppers]

UK Independent: Baghdad is under siege

By Patrick Cockburn in Arbil, Northern Iraq
Published: 01 November 2006

Sunni insurgents have cut the roads linking the city to the rest of Iraq. The country is being partitioned as militiamen fight bloody battles for control of towns and villages north and south of the capital.

As American and British political leaders argue over responsibility for the crisis in Iraq, the country has taken another lurch towards disintegration.

Well-armed Sunni tribes now largely surround Baghdad and are fighting Shia militias to complete the encirclement.

The Sunni insurgents seem to be following a plan to control all the approaches to Baghdad. They have long held the highway leading west to the Jordanian border and east into Diyala province. Now they seem to be systematically taking over routes leading north and south.

MORE.... http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/article1945769.ece

[aquart]

1. Jesus.

[whirlygigspin]

2. this is all Jim Carrey's fault...damned actors

[MrScorpio]

3. Let's see Rummy spin this shit n/t

[primavera]

22. It's all the fault of Bill Clinton's penis

Didn't you know, everything that goes wrong anywhere in the universe is invariably the fault of Bill's willie?

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

4. Well, how's the moat coming?

and the boatride with the animatronic jihadists in Bush's Military Adventureland theme park?

[silverweb]

5. Dupe.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=103x243590

[Duppers]

24. sorry. I did do a search on breaking news

for Baghdad. You know some times the search function will not pull up all the posts.

Again, very sorry.

[silverweb]

29. No, I'm sorry.

My post was meant to be directional rather than critical. People sometimes post in forums other than what we'd expect, so I always do a search from the main page rather than within an specific forum, and that helps avoid duplications.

:)

[still_one]

6. no wonder they want to distort the subject and blame Kerry

[savemefromdumbya]

13. EXACTLY DEMOCRATS SHOULD BE ON THIS!

[donheld]

7. Why else do you think there making such a fuss about Kerry

Takes this out of the news.

[mia]

8. "Individual atrocities often obscure the bigger picture where:

* upwards of 1,000 Iraqis are dying violently every week;

* Shia fighters have taken over much of Baghdad; the Sunni encircle the capital;

* the Iraqi Red Crescent says 1.5 million people have fled their homes within the country;

* the Shia and Sunni militias control Iraq, not the enfeebled army or police."

[chelaque liberal]

9. Self delete. Sorry, just read the article.

[saigon68]

10. You mean, "The enfeebled PUPPET army or police"

LOL

[RedEarth]

11. $500 billion later.....

[savemefromdumbya]

12. WHY ISN"T THIS HEADLINES?

the media is getting it's 'knickers in a twist' over the Kerry thing and yet Baghdad isa under siege

[TexasLawyer]

26. And of course, this is foreign press coverage

American press will give us all the latest on the Kerry flap, and leave this bad news on Iraq off the front page.

[Duppers]

27. Indeed! instead of talking about what Kerry didn't say! nt.

nt

[alfredo]

14. Not surprised.

How long will it be before US troops will be denied supplies?

[Algorem]

15. Bush has suckered all the terrorists from whole world to Bagdad!He'll get

them now!What a courageous genius! I'm sure he'll go over there and lead the slaughter of them himself.Him and his Korea war era National Guard plane and his copilot Other-Priority Dick.

[funkzilla]

16. what a mess

You'd have to lay the blame firmly at US and UK mismanagement after the invasion. It's time for Bush and Blair to put their hands up and admit they cocked it up.

[lebkuchen]

17. Thank you for bringing the board back to more important issues

[FredStembottom]

18. Time to helicopter out the 'Merkins from rooftops?

Probably not. But what will the Iraq insurgents find should they ever take The Green Zone? The mind boggles.

:eyes:

[AliceWonderland]

19. Four children killed at a wedding

That is real news. My god.

[NashVegas]

20. I Have to Wonder About Supply Routes

To / from occupational troops.

[hedgehog]

21. I've been very afraid of a "black Hawk Down" incident.

Given the current political atmosphere, I don't think it would change any votes, just harden people's current opinions.

[Bandit]

23. Don't worry we are building a 700 mile fence along our border

That should make everything okay....:crazy:

[stepnw1f]

25. Here's What the Right Wing Doesn't Want Us Talking About

How the GOP and Bush lost Iraq ontop of lying us into Iraq in the first place!!!!!

[zippy890]

28. kick

important story:dem: