Sunni Leader says genocidal campaign is being waged inside Iraq

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Iraq's most senior Sunni politician issued a desperate appeal Sunday for Arab nations to help stop what he called an "unprecedented genocide campaign" by Shiite militias armed, trained and controlled by Iran. The U.S. military reported five American soldiers were killed, apparently lured into an al-Qaida trap.

Adnan al-Dulaimi said "Persians" and "Safawis," Sunni terms for Iranian Shiites, were on the brink of total control in Baghdad and soon would threaten Sunni Arab regimes.

"It is a war that has started in Baghdad and they will not stop there but will expand it to all Arab lands," al-Dulaimi wrote in an impassioned broadside e-mailed to The Associated Press.

Sunni Arab regimes throughout the Middle East fear the growing influence of Iran's Shiite theocracy with radical groups like Hezbollah and Hamas as well as the Syrian regime. Raising the specter of Iranian power reaching the Arab doorstep, unlikely in the near-term, betrayed al-Dulaimi's desperation.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070812/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq

But yet, they say that if we leave Iraq then there will be a bloodbath. It looks like we could have 16 or 160,000 troops over there, it won't be able to stop the slaughter, this "bloodbath" is going to happen regardless of what strategy can be thought up. It's time we just focus on rescuing Iraqis and taking them to safe places rather than trying to stabilize a country that will probably be unstable as long as it's called Iraq.

[seemslikeadream]

1. but will expand it to all Arab lands

Isn't that the plan?

[saltpoint]

2. Freedom's on the march! Mission accomplished! Bring it on!

Bush's own words boomerang and bonk him on the head.

The most restrained historian is still going to have to call a landscape of smoking rubble a landscape of smoking rubble.

[kenny blankenship]

3. The things they scare us with and say "this will happen in Iraq" ARE ALREADY HAPPENING

Basra has been ethnically cleansed of Sunnis ALREADY.

Congressional Democrats must demand General Petraeus stop inciting the Sunnis to secede by arming them in Anbar, and also reverse the ethnic cleansing of Baghdad and Basra OR ELSE ADMIT HIS FAILURE.