From the LA Times:
BAGHDAD, Iraq — Shiite Muslim religious leaders ratcheted up their rhetoric against the United States during Friday prayers amid ongoing sectarian violence and faltering talks over the creation of a new Iraqi government...One leading Shiite cleric, Ayatollah Muhammad Yacoubi, called on Washington to remove Khalilzad, who is perceived by some Shiites as biased in favor of Kurds, Sunni Arabs and secular Iraqis.
Khalilzad, speaking to a group of Iraqi women Friday inside the tightly secured Green Zone, took his own swipe at Iraqi politicians. "Iraq is bleeding while they are moving at a very slow pace," he said, according to a transcript provided by the U.S. Embassy.
Shiite religious leaders throughout the country also condemned a U.S.-Iraqi raid Sunday on a Shiite religious complex in northern Baghdad that left at least 16 dead.
"This grisly crime was committed by the occupier and its mercenaries," prayer leader Mohammad Tabatabai told worshippers in the impoverished Shiite neighborhood of Sadr City. "America is taking on the role of Pharaoh to the world. America came to kill the believers."...
Iraq's Sunni Arabs, once viewed as the primary perpetrators of ethnic violence, have increasingly become victims as shadowy groups with possible ties to official security organs have launched a campaign of abduction and murder. Authorities discovered at least five corpses Friday, some with handcuffs and signs of torture in what has become the signature of the death squads operating in religiously mixed provinces of central Iraq...
Since he did so well in Kabul, why not dispatch him to Baghdad?
the Shia is going to hit the fan. The Shia have been freed and now are ready to wage war across the ME.
We need to give them all of the possible support for it is to the advanage of the world when muslms war with each other.
An envoy of the United States, a nation, sent on a diplomatic mission to deal with a province of the religion.
MO STATE DEPARTMENTS MO HATE DEPARTMENTS MO IDEA COMPARTMENTS MO MO
A religion that is not a faith. A nation that is not a country. An army that is not military. A race that has no color. A legal code that is not judicial. A tyranny that sets people free. A docile people hellbent on expansion and global rule.
This infected cat changes its colors at will, and nobody notices. Have our eyes become that blind, our memories that short?
I still haven't forgotten those burning Americans leaping from the 91st floor. It's a crime to replay that video, but I remember. A growing number of people in this country, maybe a majority, has.
This proof positive that Islime is too embedded in countries such as Iraq. Am I saying give up the good fight? No. I'm saying that these people are so entrenched in Islime, that they are willing to live under it rather than Sadman Insane. But only the opposite is true. Sadman(Saddam) wasn't a good Muslim at all. Osama bin Laden himself even said that. But they had one enemy in common, the United States!
The Iraqis need to learn that true freedom is totally without a ruling relgious class running the government behind the scene. Such as in Afghanistan! The Founding Fathers made sure to make sure that religion could not be the rulling factor in the business of "We the People." Can religion influence a person? Yes it can. But it becomes dangerous when a person tries to impose his religious points of view on others. The popes of the past tried this in early Europe. They met with objection from reformists or the Protestants. In Iraq the, the same thing is happening. Only in this, the ayatollahs and mullahs are in the role of the popes past. They have to be made to understand, sharia is not true freedom. The Islamic/Muslim religious leaders are not going to let them see that.
The mistake that our State Department is making is not seeing that Islam is not a religion, but a way of life. Custom and culture. That is why it was so easy to put sharia provisions in the Afghanistan constitution. These people will have to change their whole thinking process. I hate to say it, but it has to be said, To these people religious rule is freedom!!! Sharia law is liberty!!! Why do you think the Muslims that frequent this website speak so strongly about the virtues of Islam? Muhammad did a good job in brainwashing his followers. Plant the seed and watch what grows! An enslaved population!!!
Damn Muhammad!!!
Now, what is before us now is a task that is going to take decades/generations to make happen. Teaching an enslaved pepople how to live free. There are free thinkers in the Middle East. They're just in hiding. Or, I'm sad to say, dead or imprisioned. It's going to take generations of time to undo the damage that Muhammad did those hundreds of years ago. It can be done, but the people of Iraq have to be willing. If not, then Iraq will never be free, and the United States military will be there for a very long time. Or some liberal will withdraw our troops and Islamic civil war will break out. Eventually, what will happen is that Iraq may become Iran light. With some ayatollah or mullah as supreme authority.
True change must come from within. The Iraqi people will have to want to be devoid of any religion in their constitution in order for our troops to come home and to reduce the risk of civil war. We do not need another Afghanistan.
The Iraqi people are in serious need of a mental transplant.
On behalf of the Iraqi people, may damnable Muhammad rot in hell!!!