I suppose I'm not the first person to wonder what the news would look like if we were as concerned with Iraqi civilian fatalities as we are with those of American soldiers. Sometimes you do see a headline like this one, though. From a distance, I bet that camera looked a lot like an RPG launcher.
While you're visiting page one, check out this article about Putin's policies and the Chechen war.
Posted by cradle at September 13, 2004 12:37 PMYou should read http://english.aljazeera.net
Also Zeyad from http://healingiraq.blogspot.com/ says:
"The most likely scenario in the event of a premature withdrawal of occuppation forces is this: Sadr will move to gain control of the south and most of Baghdad, other Shi'ites will submit by intimidation. The Marji'iya will have no power to intervene unless they are willing to allow a violent civil war between the various Shi'ite factions. Iran is likely to interfere, but perhaps not directly.
At the same time, Sunni elements will move to consolidate their power over their areas. The fundamental foreign and Salafi constituent would be too weak to control any area. Each town would be virtually independent until the strongest (and most ruthless) group can control the Sunni areas north of Baghdad. The Kurdish region would break off the rest of Iraq and the Peshmerga would move to control oil fields in Kirkuk. Later, there would be a bloody confrontation between the different groups until one subjugates the others and controls the country, this would probably take years and hundreds of thousands of Iraqis would die, many more would try to leave Iraq."
Almost makes me wish we hadn't invaded in the first place.
Posted by: David at September 16, 2004 11:52 PM