August 21, 2005

Last throes
A noble cause - democracy's on the march!

Iraqi civil war is already underway as militias wrest control across the country:

Shiite and Kurdish militias, often operating as part of Iraqi government security forces, have carried out a wave of abductions, assassinations and other acts of intimidation, consolidating their control over territory across northern and southern Iraq and deepening the country's divide along ethnic and sectarian lines.

"I don't see any difference between Saddam and the way the Kurds are running things here," said Nahrain Toma, who heads a human rights organization in northern Iraq.

And it's five, six, seven,
Open up the pearly gates
Well there ain't no time to wonder why
Whoopee! we're all gonna die.
- Country Joe and the Fish.


"9/11! 9/11!"
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