Posts by Roger Hughes

"Any confession pulled out of someone at Guantanamo Bay isn't worth the paper it's written on."

Amnesty International

northernheron97 said:I completely agree that the invasion of Iraq was hands down one of the biggest blunders in American history, and honestly, Bush was an absolute clown of cosmic proportions; the whole neoconservative crew was just a massive collection of amateurs who were totally out of touch with how the post-Cold War world actually works, but don't you really see that the true killers in Iraq are the religious fundamentalists from both the Sunni and Shia sides?

For instance, the real killer is someone like al-Baghdadi, who declared something like nineteen new Islamic dogmas, claiming that Christians and Jews living among Muslims aren't even protected as dhimmis anymore, and that any Sunnis participating in the Iraqi government are apostates—basically marked for death right alongside the Shias.

The actual engine of this slaughter is al-Qaeda and those Sunni fundamentalists who kicked this whole bloodbath off by destroying the mosque in the Samara Desert.

And it’s the exact same story with the Shias and their various vampiric, messianic cults that preach death and chaos as a necessary precursor to the arrival of the Mahdi; their leaders are simultaneously leading special death squads for the Mahdi's army, and their worst psychopathic killer, al-Dera, is currently hiding out in Iran (which explains why even Ahmadinejad seems to believe that chaos is a prerequisite for the Mahdi's return).
The atrocities committed by the Mahdi's army have become so extreme that even Muqtada al-Sadr is starting to purge movement leaders—like Hasan Salih, the leader of the Mahdi's army in Baghdad—because they are just too deeply mired in bloodshed.

Americans essentially found themselves in a helpless situation because of their own incompetence and the sheer failure of their analysts to predict what would happen, but blaming them directly for the deaths isn't quite right—the responsibility lies with the ones doing the killing, and those killers are the Iraqis themselves, specifically the extreme Sunni and apocalyptic Shia movements.
The Americans are guilty of opening Pandora's box on a massive scale, but that is still a lesser evil compared to the darkness lurking within the extremist factions of the Iraqi people.

You know what's actually wild about all this?? It's the fact that the top Shia religious leaders are out here claiming the USA was behind the destruction of that mosque instead of the Sunnis?!