My subconscious has been avoiding writing posts about Iraq. It's such a crazy mess... damn occupation! Damn terrorists! damn stupid jerks planting bombs! Damn US! Damn UK! Damn Kurds! Damn Shias! Damn Sunnis! Damn civilians! What the fuck is wrong with this place?
But hey, Iraq won the Asia Football Cup 10 days ago, so that's worth celebrating. Always nice when you see mass demonstrations of HAPPY people... And although we've been dealing with the same level of casualties since - the average 10, 15 dead a day - we've managed to do what we've been doing for Palestine forever: relegate these unhappy bits of news to page 6, bottom.
Unless there are US soldiers who also blew up, at which point it becomes worthy of a front page mention, because we know of course that all lives aren't worth the same.
Oh, and earlier today 5 ministers resigned from Al-Maliki's cabinet. Add those to last week's 6 who withdrew, and you have a cabinet with no Sunnis. Nice. Do I see a Lebanon on the way? However, in Beirut, although the Shiite ministers have left the cabinet several months ago, there has been no major outbreak of violence (a few skirmishes here and there...)
but in Iraq, those guys are hot-headed - and armed.
And apparently they've been getting their arms from the most unexpected supplier:
the US Army.
BBC titled "US 'loses track' of Iraq weapons" - which could very well have been written: "US says 'Oh shit'."
Because it's not a gun they lost -- it's a bloody arsenal:
110,000 AK-47 rifles
(yes, one-hundred-and-ten-ay-kay-fourty-seven-rayfels, you read correctly!)
80,000 pistols
135,000 body armour pieces
110,000 helmets.
NICE. Someone's having a good day. Several thousand people are having their last ones.
And the very cool headed Pentagon decided that... it was going to ask for $2 billion to buy more weapons to distribute.
Did i hear someone say 'irresponsible'????
ROFL.
1 comment:
iraq will crack the american nuts
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