Residents look at a destroyed vehicle after an attack in Basra on Saturday.
Baghdad: The death toll in clashes between the military and Shiite rebels escalated on Saturday, with health workers saying two hospitals are overflowing with the wounded.
At least 133 bodies and 647 wounded have been brought to five hospitals in eastern Baghdad over the past five days, eastern Baghdad's health chief Ali Bustan said on Saturday.
More than 200 people have been reported killed and hundreds wounded in the five days of fighting across southern Iraq and Baghdad since a crackdown on militants in Basra....
The Gulf News reports the 'discovery' of BODIES. Not people, but, bodies. Wow. What is it like to have 133 people dead within five days time?
What is it like to have war a daily routine?
No child can count on their future and in Iraq's war zones they count on growing up fast, to learn to carry weapons and destroy any entity that will seek to destroy them.
You know what is interesting about the picture above?
Its a car.
A car in Basra.
A bombed car in Basra.
A bombed out car in Basra that was NOT destroyed by a suicide bomber, but, by an American jet fighter.
When have we ever seen the Sistani Shia mount a suicide bomber attack into any place in Iraq or otherwise? They aren't capable. One of the grestest criticisms of militias such as Hamas is the FACT that children are recruited into 'martyr brigades.' That isn't happening today in Basra. The Iraqi military and it's USA components aren't receiving suicide bombers to deal with. Don't you find that odd?
Has there been one report of a suicide bomber attacking even The Green Zone? Not a one. Its almost as though they can't 'imagineer' themselves doing that. Its almost as though that is a distasteful way to defend their hamlets in southern Iraq or in Baghdad.
Could it be that the Grand Ayatollah al Sistani loves his flock so much that he cannot conceptualize their death to incur the deaths of others? Could it be that the Grand Ayatollah could never mandate a fatah to lead against any other person? Could we actually be looking at an Islam VOID of the ability to do anything beside live in peaceful practice of their faith?
That is my belief of the Sistani Shia. It has been a long held belief. No, they aren't pacifists. They will rise up against authority to defend themselves, but, that is nearly a genetic predisposition for them. They are damnably autonomous, but, they are survivors. The Maliki government, Iraq's military and police, the USA military and the British military need to be brought up on war crime charges because of their 'aggressive' initiatives against 'a people' that was actively seeking resolve of issues with a declared and sustainable ceasefire !
