Topic: Full week
Well, so far this PlameGate thing continues as Bush and Mclellan continue to dodge answering shit. It is becoming increasingly apparent that someone did something wrong and it might be Rove it might be Libby (Cheney's chief of staff) on Americablog they posted a link to an audio interview with Larry Johnson, a former CIA agent who says this, "this is the first time in our HISTORY that a political operative at the White House has purposefully outed a covert CIA agent."
Serious business people.
Americablog also had this interesting item from Reuters:
Iraqis have begun barricading themselves in their homes and forming neighborhood militias in an effort to fend off relentless suicide attacks, residents in the capital said on Monday.
The measures come amid waning confidence in the Iraqi police and other security forces as they struggle to get on top of the two-year-old insurgency. In the latest attack, 98 people were killed by a suicide truck bomb south of Baghdad on Saturday.
A senior member of Iraq's parliament on Sunday called for popular militias to be created as an extra line of defense against the militants, and criticized the government for failing to stop the bombs.
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While there was some backing for his proposal, there are concerns militias formed along sectarian lines could lead the country ever closer to civil war, with Shi'ite and Sunni Arabs already involved in tit-for-tat killings.
Despite that fear, local militias have already been formed in several Baghdad areas, and at least two Shi'ite political movements have their own powerful private armies.
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They carry a piece of paper signed by the Iraqi army granting them permission to carry out the patrols. Rob's Note: Are these legitimate letters? Is this is now a policy of the new Iraqi Army? Perhaps an enterprising journalist might find out the answer to this.
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"We are scared even inside our homes -- we expect attacks at any moment," said Hamid Hashim, a teacher in Aadhamiya who has padlocks on his doors. "Our children are never allowed out of the house, even if that may hurt them psychologically."
Shi'ite lawmakers are growing increasingly frustrated and fear militants will succeed in their aim of provoking sectarian conflict if greater efforts are not made to quell the insurgency.
"The multinational forces have to take responsibility for the bloodshed," said Sheikh Jalal-el-din al-Sagheer, a member of the main Shi'ite bloc in parliament.
INteresting stuff if not a little on the suck side. Sorry for the infrequent posts as most of my time on the computer is spent job searching right now...
Posted by Ahlberg
at 5:27 PM CDT
