On Nov 23, 2006, at 9:14 AM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
> Both those, like Tariq Ali, who have hailed resistance to the
> occupation of Iraq and those, like Doug, who have had nothing but
> negative comments on it
What I said just yesterday:
> In a better world, there'd be a unified Iraqi resistance that
> didn't kill members of rival militias or sects that could
> successfully drive the US out and lead to the creation of a
> democratic socialist independent Iraq. I know that wish and a
> Metrocard will get me on the subway, but I doubt Obama would agree.
Meanwhile, today:
> BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A series of car bombs killed 160 people in a
> Shi'ite stronghold in Baghdad on Thursday in the bloodiest single
> attack since the U.S. invasion of 2003.
>
> As political leaders scrambled in public to hold Iraqis back from
> all-out sectarian civil war, they imposed an indefinite curfew on
> the capital. Police said the six coordinated blasts in the Sadr
> City slum wounded 257 people, many maimed for life.
>
> The blasts came at the same time as gunmen surrounded and fired on
> the Shi'ite-run Health Ministry in one of the boldest daylight
> assaults by militants in Baghdad. Mortars later crashed down on a
> nearby Sunni enclave in an apparent reprisal attack.
It'd be nice if there were less that, more resistance.
Doug