Suicide bomber kills 53 at Iraq pilgrimage climax
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Elbuda Mexicano
Are Arabs and Pakistanis and Iranians going to blame this on Israel?? The USA??
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johninnaha
I don't know who the Arabs and Pakistanis are going to blame it on, but wasn't the U.S.A. supposed to have civilized the place and brought freedom?
Looks like they did a great job (sarcasm)!
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Madverts
Oh I think it's fair to heap 99% of the blame on the fundie Islamists that planned and carried out the attack.
It's the title of the article that I don't like.
Climax?
Even when I hear Formula 1 historians talking about the famous "Coventry Climax" engine, it still sounds like the title of an adult film...
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smithinjapan
Good thing GWB decided the "war on terror" deemed all this necessary. Saddam is starting to look like he was mighty stable. Next Karzai is going to start crying again in Afghanistan.
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Madverts
Saddam stopped them having a pilgrimage by threat of torture at the hands of his secret police and/or mass-murder. That was how he achieved a certain amount of stability.
Few people actually believe the neo-cons initial reasons for ordering the invasion that touched off the blaze, but even fewer believe they had any idea the extent of the horror they were to find in Pandora's Box.
It will soon be ten years. It's time the Iraqi's got their act together and pass a law on lacism. Religion, and a 1300, yes a one thousand and three hundred year old feud is the root cause of the carnage.
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Patrick Hattman
The Sunnis and Shias will never stop their attacks on one another because the differences they have go to the very core of their beliefs. There is and never will be any common ground for long-term peace and good relations between the two.
No amount of U.S. fighting and (some rebuilding) there was ever going to change this.
No amount of "peace, freedom and democracy" blah-blah was going to alter this either.
Sad to say, but things will just get worse.
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Familienprobleme
Apparently it was necessary since they went right back to killing eachother after Saddam was toppled.
Most of us are sure they just had no idea what they were doing. A few of us realized it at the start. I cannot say I predicted sectarian chaos from the invasion. (although I expected ineptitude from the neocons). But how was I to imagine that military commanders would fail to make sure there were enough troops to keep order despite the musings of the military debutantes of the Bush Administration?
Most of what I predicted were political failures rather than military. I guess I was half right on that. I was completely right that the war would not be worth it for us on most any facet. That is the general course of military incusions for the sake of regime change.
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Madverts
They knew exactly what they were doing. The profits made long before Halliburton abandoned Iraq...
Tu m'a bien mal compris...
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Elbuda Mexicano
Sad, but somehow I think those leaders in neighboring, Iran, in Teheran are loving this, seeing the Iraqis at each others throats, what a world we live in and as Madverts says, Haliburton etc..did PROFIT and are still profiting from all of this mess.
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Familienprobleme
As far as making tons of money, yes, I agree with you there Madverts. So many of them should be on trial and facing jail time. I am undecided on the issue of if they actually wanted it all to go on this long. But as they will get away with it (with support from people too scared about the loss of faith in government to agree to do anything about these high criminals), I doubt they care.
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Madverts
Expecting to see any of the neocons in the dock is as likely as meeting Santa on Christmas day.
There may have been a certain stability under Saddam but it's un-fair to call his regime "mighty stable". I have a sneaky feeling things will, eventually get better - especially if they could manage to exclude their religions from any sort of decision making just like every country should. Lacism rocks.
And besides, things have massively improved since the dark days of 2006 at the cost of huge loss of life, including many American kids- it just isn't happening quick enough. The PNAC and the Bush ju,ior administration have a lot to answer for, but they never will, trust me on that. The reasons for invading we utter rubbish and we knew that at the time so I think ten years down the line it just has to be accepted, just as we have to accept the current financial crisis are products of un-checked capitalism run wild that will result in not one person being held to account whilst the rest of us foot the bill as it trickles on down.
I doubt many people in Iraq are pining for the Saddam years, even if they're un-happy with their current lot.
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Serrano
"Shiite devotees"
They've been deceived. As have the Sunni devotees.
If only they would realize this, they could all become great pals!
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JeremiahW
I like how when it is sectarian strife that escalates into mass murder in Arab countries no one blames religion (or calls for its end in politics) or tribalism, they just blame themselves - - it is the fault of" the West", "George Bush", "neo-cons" "war profiteers", etc etc
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