Attacks across Iraq claim 142 lives

SouthernDemocrat · 08-02-07, 04:45 AM

BAGHDAD - (edit: In another sign of progress in Iraq....) Baghdad shook with bombings and political upheaval Wednesday as the largest Sunni Arab bloc quit the government and a suicide attacker blew up his fuel tanker in one of several attacks that claimed 142 lives nationwide.

The Iraqi Accordance Front's withdrawal from the Cabinet leaves only two Sunnis in the 40-member body, undermining Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's efforts to pull together rival factions and pass reconciliation laws the U.S. considers benchmarks that could lead to sectarian reconciliation.

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cherokee · 08-02-07, 07:43 AM

I'll never understand why these people put up with this chit! Where is the outrage from the Iraqi people? People go ape-chit over cartoons, scream bloody murder at the US everyday but when retarded clerics like Muqtada al-Sadr send their suicide bombers out to kill hundreds of Iraqis you don’t hear a fooking word! Why?...
Why are people so quite for?

I'll tell you worldwide without any fanfare clerics like Muqtada al-Sadr need to be assassinated.

bub · 08-02-07, 07:50 AM

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Originally Posted by cherokee

I'll never understand why these people put up with this chit! Where is the outrage from the Iraqi people? People go ape-chit over cartoons, scream bloody murder at the US everyday but when retarded clerics like Muqtada al-Sadr send their suicide bombers out to kill hundreds of Iraqis you don’t hear a fooking word! Why?...
Why are people so quite for?

I'll tell you worldwide without any fanfare clerics like Muqtada al-Sadr need to be assassinated.

If you kill him, another moron will take his place.

That's the people who have to understand extremism and intolerance is ****.
Many already do, but that's always the radicals that you see in the medias.

Billo_Really · 08-02-07, 08:04 AM

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Originally posted by Cherokee:
Where is the outrage from the Iraqi people?

Why ask a question you are deliberately "deaf" to the answer on?

This is a protest letter from an Iraqi human rights activist questioning Amnesty International's call to re-write the Iraqi Constitution so it would include specific verbage respecting International Law on human rights. It is a little dated, but it does shed some light on how Iraqis view the problem and where some of their outrage is directed too.

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I hear Amnesty International is campaigning for Human Rights in the new Iraqi draft constitution? How wonderful that they are concerned about our human rights in the future... but what about now? Why doesn't Amnesty International campaign or at least say something about the hundreds of thousands of innocent Iraqis who are held for months, years in the American prisons, without the least rights? The known and the unknown prisons inside and outside Iraq? Why don't they do something about the hundreds of Iraqis, whose bodies are found every day on the garbage piles, with evidences of horrible torture on their bodies after they had been disappeared for a few days? What about the miserable life the Iraqi government is giving the Iraqis for months now, in every field? Does Amnesty International consider the rewriting of the constitution now a legal process? Obviously it does, but on what bases? The war and occupation of Iraq are illegal (even Kofi Annan said it). Who wrote the draft? A member of the writing committee admitted that a draft was sent from the US. So, how far is this legal?

I would like to ask Amnesty International one question: why is it so necessary to write a new constitution for Iraq now? All the political parties, the government, the National Assembly, the media ... etc are preoccupied with the (controversial points) in the constitution for months now, and will be for the next few months. Meanwhile, the country is full of problems: the security, the services, the economy, the environment, the corruption, the Human Rights conduct of the Iraqi government... to mention only few ...two days ago I went to a dentist compound, one of the biggest in Baghdad, where at least 50 dentists work. They could not pull out my tooth because they did not have anesthetic...a very common problem in the Iraqi hospitals for months. Too bad for my teeth, but imagine with emergency cases?

In Tallafar families did not get the food ration, neither any other food since the beginning of this year. In many Iraqi towns, the majority, there is no authority, no law, no police, no courts, only the armed militias and their political parties. Racial cleansing has begun in many parts of Iraq. The government in the heavily fortified Green Zone is very busy working on the constitution.

During the last attack on Haditha, for more than two weeks, all the news programs, the dialogue, the forums were focused on the constitution and in the meantime an Iraqi major city was practically slaughtered. No one said a word about it as if it was happening on the moon. Do you think that this is just a coincidence? And, by the way, it happened and is happening continuously in other places.

There are so many problems in Iraq now, so many crimes committed daily, where innocent people are killed, arrested, tortured... Why is it so important to neglect all these crimes and be busy with the constitution? Why is it so urgent?

Saddam did not write the Iraqi constitution, and if there were some changes or resolutions added to it during the last 30 years, they can be cancelled, simple. We can keep our constitution until we have a proper government and national assembly. After we are done with the most urgent problems, we can take our time writing the most humanitarian and progressive constitution in the world!

Maybe more dangerous is the fact that rewriting the constitution now is deepening the divisions between the Iraqis and pushing them to the verge of civil war, because some of them were given guarantees to participate in the political process, which they refused in the beginning, and after they agreed, the guarantees proved to be untrue. Now these groups are saying that they were deceived, and they reject the draft presented to the National Assembly. All these problems are for what? Just to help Bush look more successful in Iraq, to give him more diplomatic credit?

To hold the election, thousands of people were killed and the entire city of Fallujah was demolished. Now, what is needed to impose a constitution? A civil war?

Can't you see that it is a game? The political parties and ethnic, sectarian groups are taking the chance of imposing a constitution convenient to their interests, and their masters' interests, not the interests of Iraq. I am not saying this out of my own prejudice, no, they admit it themselves, openly. And by the way, there is a very unhealthy, non-objective atmosphere in which this constitution is written, which is something very expected and normal in the current situation. But it is not the right way to write a constitution.

I know very well who are the friends and the enemies of Iraq and its people. I have nothing against any international organization. On the contrary, I, personally, am badly in need of an international organization that can help me in my campaign on the Missing. I want these organizations to come here and work on the violations that the occupation did and is doing in Iraq. We need them badly to see what the occupation is covering by rewriting the constitution. We need them to campaign for releasing the innocent, or at least giving them some rights in prison, not to campaign for a political process built on the wrong basis.

The problem is that the world is asking somebody who is burning in fire to scream in a low voice.

Have you experienced living with death all around you, with fear of everything and everybody, with the horrible stories and pictures of what some Iraqis are facing? Excuse my frustration, with my respect to all the international organizations which defend Human Rights."

An article, written on August 17th by Haifa Zangana, an Iraqi novelist and columnist of 'The Guardian', reflects the essence of this message we received from inside Iraq:

"perhaps we need to remember that this constitution is being written in a war zone, in a country on the verge of a civil war. This process is designed not to represent the Iraqi people's need for a constitution but to comply with an imposed timetable aimed at legitimizing the occupation. The drafting process has increasingly proved a dividing, rather than a unifying, process. Under Saddam Hussein, we had a constitution described as "progressive and secular". It did not stop him violating human rights, women's included. The same is happening now. The militias of the parties heading the interim government are involved in daily violations of Iraqis' human rights, women's in particular, with the US-led occupation's blessing. Will the new constitution put an end to this violence?"

The Brussels Tribunal | Dear Amnesty International

Billo_Really · 08-02-07, 08:14 AM

You want "outrage", you got outrage!

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U.S. erects more walls to isolate Baghdad quarters
By Haqqi Ismael Azzaman, July 28, 2007

U.S. troops have isolated certain quarters in the neighborhood of Dora with concrete slabs, blocking the passage of vehicles. Residents now vent their fury on U.S. troops, accusing the military of turning their neighborhood into a big prison. Doura is one of the most violent areas in Baghdad and repeated U.S. military forays have failed to pacify it.

Residents said at least three districts were now completely cut off, leading to shortages of food and vegetables. Cars are not allowed to enter or leave these areas making it difficult for patients to visit hospitals and shop owners to replenish supplies.

“These measures have caused a lot of problems for us. We are under fire now from all sides. Mortars and bombs by rebels and terrorists continue falling over our heads while U.S. troops have turned our areas into a big prison,” said Abu Saif.

Residents have now to walk for long distances to reach bus terminals and it is impossible for ambulances and cars to drive patients in acute conditions to hospitals.

Trajan Octavian Titus · 08-02-07, 08:20 AM

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Originally Posted by Billo_Really

Why ask a question you are deliberately "deaf" to the answer on?

This is a protest letter from an Iraqi human rights activist questioning Amnesty International's call to re-write the Iraqi Constitution so it would include specific verbage respecting International Law on human rights. It is a little dated, but it does shed some light on how Iraqis view the problem and where some of their outrage is directed too.

A) The war is not illegal and Kofi Anon has no authority what so ever to say that it is.

B) Where is this guys outrage for how Fallujah was living under a state of terror when it was controlled by the insurgency?

C) This guy isn't a human rights activist he is an insurgent propagandist just like YOU. Oh wait this wasn't even written by an individual it was written by the Brussels Tribunal on Iraq:

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The following letter was composed by members of The Brussels Tribunal, one of the groups from the World Tribunal on Iraq. For those interested in international law and the upcoming referendum vote on the Iraqi constitution, this is a must read:

from their website:

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Questioning the New Imperial World Order
The BRussells Tribunal:

People vs Total War Incorporated

lmfao keep up the good work Billo you are truelly a credit to propagandists everywhere.

Billo_Really · 08-02-07, 08:20 AM

You'd express "outrage" too, if you were living in these conditions!

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Power outage plunges half of Baghdad into total darkness
Azzaman, July 22, 2007

The Karkh side of Baghdad where nearly half of the city’s six million people live has been without electricity for more than 10 days.

The Tigris River divides Baghdad into two parts – the Karkh and Rasafa. Baghdad has much less electricity than before the 2003-U.S. invasion.

Nationwide, electricity generation rates are also lower with major cities and towns often suffering more than 20-hour long outages.

As the output levels from major power plants decline, the authorities have almost done nothing to provide new alternatives.

The Iraqi people feel their government is not addressing their issues but instead, catering to the needs of their occupiers.

cherokee · 08-02-07, 08:21 AM

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Originally Posted by bub

If you kill him, another moron will take his place.

That's the people who have to understand extremism and intolerance is ****.
Many already do, but that's always the radicals that you see in the medias.

What other options do you have? You would think the world would be outraged over the daily bombings especially in the Muslim world but the simple truth its not.

Trajan Octavian Titus · 08-02-07, 08:21 AM

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Originally Posted by Billo_Really

You want "outrage", you got outrage!

Take your Azzaman propaganda and shove it. If the Sunni's weren't blowing **** up and killing innocent non-combatants in mass then these structures would not need to be erected so again place blame where blame is due.

Trajan Octavian Titus · 08-02-07, 08:26 AM

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Originally Posted by Billo_Really

You'd express "outrage" too, if you were living in these conditions!

The Iraqi people feel their government is not addressing their issues but instead, catering to the needs of their occupiers.

This article is a pack of lies Iraqi power output and consumption are above pre-war levels I have proven this undeniable truth to you over and over so please take your Saudi bought and paid for Azzaman propaganda and shove it.