Today CNN.Com posted this article.
Basically it goes on to say that one of the Vice Presidents of Iraq, a Sunna named Tariq Al-Hashimi, is worried that by loosening up the checkpoints around Sadr City it is allowing the Shia militia's to move freely again. Yet another order directly from the Prime Minister Nouri Al-Maliki. (Like the one to release the known bomb maker and killer of American and Iraqi forces because Muqtada asked him to)
My unease with Al-Maliki is growing more and more by the day, as he begins to assert more and more authority over the US efforts to crack down on the militias that violate the country's own constitution, which he is under oath to uphold. He seems to be worrying more about those 30 seats that Muqtada holds in their Congress than the 240 other seats that are there to deal with.
Because of the recent checkpoints there was a downtrend in violence. The day they loosen the checkpoints there are bombs going off all over the place. One source quoted the inconvenience it caused Iraqis daily...I'm sorry would you rather have someone search your trunk or have a bomb go off while you were at the market?
While the US military has one hand tied behind their back to deal with Sunni insurgents, they are hog tied to deal with the Shia militia. If we were doing something that was working to quell the violence, why would al-Maliki stop us, if he didn't have some ulterior motive? Where is his case for disarming Muqtada? Where is his case for national unity? His mandate is until 2010...will there be any Sunni left in Iraq to vote him out?
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My unease with George Bush grows daily. I am so frustrated with his conduct of the war that I could scream. If the troops are just there to serve as targets now, then cut and run is beginning to look a lot saner than what's going on. I know US morale and prestige will take a devastating hit, but if this is how he's going to fight the war, then it's just a question of how many of our soldiers will die before we finally acknowledge that we lost. We won't have lost because of defeat on the battlefield, and we won't have lost because of public opinion, we will have lost because our lousy politicians tried to fight an altruistic war... again.
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