I don't get it...

[Acebass]

You see one story says one thing...then another says something entirly different...oh but yes I get it...midterms are coming up and it's a sell out...just like Vietnam!...


Shiite Militias Move Into Oil-Rich Kirkuk, Even as Kurds Dig In
Control of Iraqi City Has Long Been in Dispute

By Jonathan Finer
Washington Post Foreign Service
Tuesday, April 25, 2006; Page A16

KIRKUK, Iraq -- Hundreds of Shiite Muslim militiamen have deployed in recent weeks to this restive city -- widely considered the most likely flash point for an Iraqi civil war -- vowing to fight any attempt to shift control over Kirkuk to the Kurdish-governed north, according to U.S. commanders and diplomats, local police and politicians.

Until recently, the presence of the militias here was minimal. U.S. officials have called the Shiite armed groups the deadliest threat to security in much of the country. They have been blamed for hundreds of killings during mounting sectarian violence in central and southern Iraq since the bombing of a revered Shiite shrine in February.


http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/04/24/AR2006042401560.html


Rice, Rumsfeld Tout New Iraq Government By ANNE GEARAN and ROBERT BURNS, Associated Press Writers
1 hour, 14 minutes ago

BAGHDAD, Iraq - Success in forming a new Iraqi government may let some U.S. troops leave the war zone within months, the top American military commander in Iraq said Wednesday. Paying a surprise visit, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld embraced the country's fledgling leaders as independent and focused on the future.

"I came away most encouraged," Rumsfeld said after he and Rice spent a day meeting with Iraqi politicians and U.S. military and diplomatic advisers in the capital city.

Rice called the priorities and commitment of Iraq's newly selected prime minister, Nouri al-Maliki,


http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060426/ap_on_re_mi_ea/us_iraq_28;_ylt=Aqnz8PoSAqWj4R.HMrP6JFtX6GMA;_ylu=X3oDMTBiMW04NW9mBHNlYwMlJVRPUCUl

[rodeodance]

1. some war--these Shite groups openly operating under the eys of US

military.


.....Until recently, the presence of the militias here was minimal. U.S. officials have called the Shiite armed groups the deadliest threat to security in much of the country. They have been blamed for hundreds of killings during mounting sectarian violence in central and southern Iraq since the bombing of a revered Shiite shrine in February.

[Acebass]

2. It's a cluster f...

with no pivot man...

[Acebass]

3. And in what other country are the Shiites the dominant sect?...n/t