Iraqi Shiite politician calls for tougher U.S. action against Sunnis

[sabra]

http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/politics/16164091.htm

Iraqi Shiite politician calls for tougher U.S. action against Sunnis

WASHINGTON - A powerful Iraqi Shiite Muslim leader on Monday urged the Bush administration to step up military attacks against Sunni insurgents and al-Qaida terrorists in his country, saying the United States' failure to take tougher action against the two groups has brought Iraq to the brink of civil war.

"The strikes they are getting from the multinational forces are not hard enough to put an end to their acts, but leave them (to) stand up again to resume their criminal acts," said Abdul-Aziz al-Hakim, the leader of the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq (SCIRI) after White House talks with President Bush. He spoke at the U.S. Institute for Peace, a U.S. government-funded foreign policy institute.

Using the terms Shiites use to describe al-Qaida and the Sunni insurgents, Hakim called for tougher U.S. military action. "Eliminating the danger of the civil war in Iraq could only be achieved through directing decisive strikes against the Taqfiri terrorists and Baathist terrorists in Iraq," he said.

Hakim's call for greater action against Sunni insurgents, which came two days before a bipartisan commission is expected to recommend that the U.S. begin reducing the number of U.S. combat troops in Iraq, underscores how at odds Iraq's Shiite leaders are with American policymakers.

[Amonester]

1. Looks like he just got his talking points from the nuts in Tehran

Their millennium long attempt at eliminating the other sect ain't over yet...

Edit: And of course, they probably know their idiot "allies" in the White House who made (a few of) them rich (thinking they were "bringing democracy") won't probably be there for very long now...

[atreides1]

2. And the US will lend a helping hand

All this to make Bush look good!!!!


So I guess under the Bush administration genocide becomes part of the War on Terror, or as some would say "the ends justify the means"!!!!