Because, you know, democracy can be messy:
Sunni politician Hamid al-Mutlaq says the country can only go downhill if Shiites like Maliki remain in power. Mutlaq, a member of the alliance of parties headed by secular Shiite and former Prime Minister Ayad Allawi, is the chairman of the defense and security committee in parliament.
Mutlaq, who doesn't make a particularly delicate impression, hasn't returned home to Fallujah for almost two months, ever since a bomb struck his house there. He says that there are "special troops who are burning down the houses of the Sunnis," and that "half a million people have fled." According to Mutlaq, the Shiite government is promoting "religious racism" and hunting down Sunnis "the way the Nazis once hunted the Jews in Germany." Is he serious? Completely. The true culprit, he adds, is neighboring "Iran with its sectarianism." The mullahs in Tehran, says Mutlaq, are literally "part of our government; they have driven a wedge into our nation."
Wonderful. Tens of thousands were slaughtered. Tens of thousands more are still being slaughtered. And no one in this country has had to account for any of it, even though none of the slaughter would have happened if not for our involvement. When I say "our" involvement, I'm not only referring to the White House and the D.C. policy establishment but to all the media and think-tank apparatchiks who took to the airwaves to cheer on the invasion while the fraud being perpetrated was hiding in plain sight. And by "our" involvement, I'm also referring to the people in Washington today who are running a protection racket for the serial liars, mass murderers and war criminals. They're equally culpable at this point in our history, and so long as there's no accounting for what was done in our name in Iraq, it virtually guarantees that sometime, somewhere, these atrocities will happen again. They may even be visited one day upon us!
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Baron V