Sunni anger spills into Iraq streets

[Contrary1]

Bush's War is gonna get much worse. Of course, "no one could have anticipated _____________ "

BAGHDAD, Iraq - Enraged crowds protested the hanging of Saddam Hussein across Iraq's Sunni heartland Monday, as a mob in Samara broke the locks off a bomb-damaged Shiite shrine and marched through carrying a mock coffin and photo of the dictator.

The demonstration in the Golden Dome, shattered in a bombing by Sunni extremists 10 months ago, suggests that many Sunni Arabs may now more actively support the small number of Sunni militants fighting the country's Shiite-dominated government. The Feb. 22 bombing of the shrine triggered the current cycle of retaliatory attacks between Sunnis and Shiia, in the form of daily bombings, kidnappings and murders.

Monday's protest came on a day that saw the U.S. military kill six Iraqis during a raid on the offices of a prominent Sunni political figure, who was suspected of giving al-Qaida in Iraq fighters sanctuary.

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Sunnis were not only outraged by Saddam's hurried execution, just four days after an appeals court upheld his conviction and sentence. Many were also incensed by the unruly scene in the execution chamber, captured on video, in which Saddam was taunted with chants of "Muqtada, Muqtada, Muqtada."


More: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16428440/

[madeline_con]

1. What? No greetings or flowers for the "liberators". n/t

[IndianaGreen]

2. Every chance Bush had to fuck up the situation in Iraq, he has done so lustily!

G-d save us from this madman who still has 2 more years left as Commander-in-Chief.

[snowbear]

3. OMG... two----more-----years......

Thank God for the election of 2006!!!! If the thugs would've won, can you imagine how much more pathetic the next two years would be?

~~~ Thank you November 7th!!!

[Selah]

5. That is hilarious!

[gratuitous]

4. And when retribution comes . . .

And you know it will, there will be all sorts of hand-wringing and dithering from the usual suspects wondering why, oh why, do these bloodthirsty ragheads hate us so much? What did we ever do to them, you know? Yes, no one could possibly anticipate any backlash from this.

Of course, the retribution won't visit the perpetrators here in the U.S.; it'll hit working folks and ordinary people.

[dicknbush]

6. Your are right about the retaliation

You know it is kinda of strange but it seems to me that this insurgency is sort of a slow motion affair. It is as if those most affected by the idiocy of Bush the Iraqis, seem to be slow to burn but it is a very long fuse that is getting shroter and shorter every day. With the lynching of Saddam we have now guraenteed a generation of Iraqis who will hate the government installed by the United States and also will hate the Untied States for allowing that disgusting display to go ahead. Thank you Geroge You fucking idiot!

[Uncle Joe]

7. This was as predictable as flowers in May

and Bush knew it, he just didn't care. Why on earth, would you demonize someone on television continually showing dead Kurdish villagers from Saddam's atrocity and then never try him for it? In lynching Saddam, Bush has aided the insurgents by giving them a martyr.

[kentuck]

8. Just wait until this "holiday" is over....

It started on the day Saddam was hung and lasts about a week. Expect more.

[petgoat]

9. The Golden Dome was bombed by Sunni extremists?

How does MSNBC know who bombed the Golden Dome? Did their crack team of
investigators actually leave the Green Zone to poke around in it for clues?

Dahr Jamail says a witness who owned an internet cafe across the street
says that the Golden Dome was guarded by US soldiers and Iraqi Nat'l Guard
troops all night long, and that the bombs went off ten minutes after they
left.

Here's another report (can't vouch for the site but it's consistent with
what Dahr Jamail said.)

http://www.twf.org/News/Y2006/0223-Mosque.html