Maliki Better Go Back to Syria, Iraq is already Lost To Bush's New Middle East Order!

Bombs exploded Sunday in Baghdad and the northern oil center of Kirkuk, killing more than 60 people, police said, and dramatically escalating tension as the prime minister left for Washington for talks on reversing the country’s slide toward civil war.
The blasts occurred as Iraqi forces and the U.S.-led coalition mounted a major crackdown on the country’s most feared Shiite militia, the Mahdi Army, blamed by Sunnis for many of the sectarian kidnappings and killings which threaten to tear the country apart.
An Iraqi army statement said 34 people were killed and 73 were wounded. Eight more people were killed and 20 wounded when a second bomb exploded two hours later at a municipal government building in Sadr City, the Iraqi army said.
In Kirkuk, a car bomb detonated at midday near a courthouse in the city market district, killing 20 and wounding more than 150, according to police Brig. Gen. Sarhat Qadir. It was the fourth car bombing this month in Kirkuk, where tensions are rising among Arabs, Kurds and Turkomen for control of the area’s vast oil wealth.
The wave of bombings, shootings and sectarian killings has plunged Iraq’s new unity government into a deep crisis only two months after Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki took office, pledging to pursue national reconciliation and to pave the way for a U.S. military withdrawal.
Instead, the U.S. military is planning to bolster its forces in Baghdad to cope with the security crisis.
Al-Maliki and a large delegation left Sunday for Washington, where he will meet President George W. Bush on Tuesday. Security is expected to dominate the talks.
Key to ending the reprisal attacks is to rein in sectarian militias and death squads that U.S. officials now say are a greater threat to Iraq than the Sunni insurgents who have been fighting the coalition since 2003. The Mahdi Army is believed to be the biggest Shiite militia.
Al-Maliki spoke following the first meeting of a government committee formed to reconcile Iraq’s disparate sectarian and political groups, but differences emerged immediately between top Shiite and Sunni officials over the issue of amnesty for insurgents.
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The two suicide car-bombs in Baghdad killed at least 42 people in the teeming Sadr City neighborhood, a Mahdi Army stronghold. The attacks followed a joint US and Iraqi raid overnight on a Sadr office in the area that ended with 15 Sadr supporters dead and two hostages freed, the US said in a statement.
Some residents blamed the US raid for the market attack, charging that it forced Mahdi Army members to abandon some of their impromptu checkpoints in the area that are meant to keep out attackers.

When the Americans come through and break up the checkpoints, that’s when we get hit by suicide bombs, like today,” says Ahmed Awadh, a Sadr City resident who works in the Ministry of Trade.

I support the Mahdi Army because they know us here, and we know them. Their checkpoints protect us,” he says. “They know all the families, and who has business here. It’s clear the Americans don’t want to provide us with security. They’ve had three years.’

Immediately following the market blast, Mahdi Army militiamen poured out of the neighborhood’s warren of alleys, shutting down dozens of streets and setting up checkpoints, trying to protect against follow-up attacks.

Some residents blamed the US raid for the market attack, charging that it forced Mahdi Army members to abandon some of their impromptu checkpoints in the area that are meant to keep out attackers.

The police and Army don’t protect us. When the Americans were here yesterday, they were shooting at our people here, not the criminals,'’ says Mohammed al-Askhar, a Mahdi Army member who insisted on using only his nom-de-guerre, which means “Mohammed the Blondie.”

Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki’s “government has shown it’s powerless. The residents of Sadr City will protect themselves. Everyone here is behind us. We will only disarm when the violence is over,” he says.

One US general says that he considers Sadr’s militia, with its thousands of poorly trained irregulars and its growing reputation for sectarian killings, to be one of the country’s gravest security threats.one US general says that he considers Sadr’s militia, with its thousands of poorly trained irregulars and its growing reputation for sectarian killings, to be one of the country’s gravest security threats.
They’re organized and they’re spreading,'’ he says. http://www.csmonitor.com/…

This Iraqi breakdown needs no outside help. It is self perpetuating and will not stop. My concern is that Saudi Arabia who looks at itself as the protector of Sunni’s will intervene and Iran will help the Shiites as seems to be happening
What should wake you up is that Iraq’s PM Maliki said that a loss of the Iraq war would be a loss of the country of Iraq.
I hate to be the one to tell him but Iraq is already lost. It is in civil war and that cannot be stopped now. It is now in proccess.As I have said many times, it will and is spreading throughout the entire middle east. You can thank Bush and his new world order!
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James Joiner
Gardner, Ma
www.anaveragepatriot.com