Chris Floyd: Bush's Bloodbath in Babylon: 'Coincidence' and Consequences

[muriel_volestrangler]

JULY 18, 2006--

Neighbors are Killing Neighbors (Washington Post): After more than a week of some of the most vicious sectarian violence of the war, Baghdad is a skeleton of a city: Many of its shops are shuttered, its streets drained of people.The violence erupted July 9 when Shiite Muslim militiamen rampaged through the al-Jihad neighborhood and killed dozens of Sunni Arabs. By Friday, the sixth day, the death toll in Baghdad stood at 628 people, according to Brig. Gen. Mahmoud Nima of the Interior Ministry, citing a figure that far exceeded the numbers previously suggested by news reports.
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Can it be a total coincidence that the hellstorm of murder and mayhem that has now turned Baghdad into "a skeleton of a city" began just after Bush and al-Maliki announced their ballyhooed "security push," pouring thousands of new troops and police into the capital's streets?

Can it be a total coincidence that much of the new violence has been carried out by "men dressed in the uniforms of the Iraqi police," to use the timid euphemism adopted by the mainstream media, and by militia forces associated with perhaps the key political player in the new "sovereign" government, the hidebound religious crank Motqada al-Sadr?
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Can it be a total coincidence that this rise followed the implementation of the Bush Regime's lavishly-funded, openly attested program " to arm and train non-governmental 'local militias' – i.e., bands of lawless freebooters – to serve as Washington's proxy killers in the so-called 'arc of crisis" that just happens to stretch across the oil-bearing lands and strategic pipeline routes of Africa, the Middle East, Central Asia and South America," as we reported in August 2004? That's when then-Pentagon poo-bah Paul Wolfowitz told a Congressional committee that:
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http://baltimorechronicle.com/2006/071906FLOYD.shtml

Floyd has assembled a large list of stories from Iraq, to show the civil war now going on. 628 dead in less than a week, just in Baghdad? This is a nightmare.

[LibertyorDeath]

1. Thanks I count on Chris to keep me up to speed on the Truth...

He's a very talented writer imo...