Iraq, the unraveling (XXVIII): Sunday’s attacks

Posted By Thomas E. Ricks Monday, October 26, 2009 - 1:45 PM Share

With the latest round of bombings, I've got no lectures, no insights, no smart comments. Anthony Shadid, one of the best reporters on Iraqi politics, worries that it portends badly for the national elections early next year. I have only sympathy for the people of Iraq, the average citizens trying to care for their families. What a nightmare.

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ADMIRAL

7:37 PM ET

October 26, 2009

The American People

We the American people are responsible for all this carnage. We declared aggressive war on Iraq and must suffer the consequences of our crimes against these people. President Obama should address the people of Iraq and apologise for our crimes. He must also promise that those responsible, civilian and military will be brought to justice at an international war crimes trial. The trial must be held in Iraq, and those found guilty will be handed over to the Iraqi government. Also he must put together a civilian commission to estimate reparation payments to the Iraqi people for the loss of life, and the destruction done to the Iraqi infrastructure. All refugee's must be allowed to resettle in the USA.

MONGO46538

3:17 PM ET

October 27, 2009

Unfortunately your right .....

I believe I heard a pundit quote Zbigniew Brzezinski as saying, "Invading Iraq over 9/11, would be like invading Mexico for Pearl Harbor", although I have yet to find that quote documented anywhere, I used this to express my moral outrage over the invasion of Iraq, not only because it was wrong , but stupid. I chafed for 7 years of verbal abuse and misunderstanding from my co-workers and other compatriots, who were all to willing to swallow the standard line of thinking without doing any research of their own. Even in the most ulterior of motives I cannot fathom why we should go to such lengths to make such a huge strategic blunder. This is classic destabilization of an entire region and what your seeing now was the only logical result. I can sit on my laurels and reiterate that this was the Bush administrations decision but unfortunaly since the rest of congress jumped on the bandwagon, as our representatives, then we as a nation are trully at fault.

JWING

12:32 AM ET

October 27, 2009

How To Read The Bombing, And Blame The Perpetrators

Here's a post by me putting yesterday's bombing in context of the overall security situation in Iraq:

http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2009/10/baghdad-bombing-follows-trend-in.html

And a very good post by Iraqi Mojo about how no one is actually blaming the people responsible for the bombings, Iraqis and Arabs, but rather trying to blame America or imperialism.

http://iraqimojo.blogspot.com/2009/10/sunday-bloody-sunday.html

MONGO46538

6:38 PM ET

October 27, 2009

Dianne Rehm Show

Tom sounding good on NPR today. I do not understand why the Obama administration cannot employ real foriegn policy experts such as Tom and perhaps Pat Buchanan as well as others to get the mostly obvious answers to some of the question they must have concerning AfPak.