[Y0K]

Militiamen burn six Sunni worshippers alive, army does not intervene

Seattle Times BAGHDAD, Iraq – Shiite militiamen grabbed six Sunnis as they left worship services today, doused them with kerosene and burned them alive near Iraqi soldiers who did not intervene, police Capt. Jamil Hussein said. The savage revenge attack for Thursday's slaying of 215 people in the Shiite Sadr City slum occurred as members of the Mahdi Army militia burned four mosques, and several homes while killing an unknown number of Sunni residents in the once-mixed Hurriyah neighborhood of Baghdad. Gunmen loyal to radical anti-American Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr began taking over the neighborhood this summer and most of its Sunni residents already had fled.

At this time of our testing, the American people are starting to go wobbly. Sadly, many Freepers are too. Our troops and their Commander-in-Chief are not, thank God. It's only been three-and-a-half years.

I wish our President had woke up and smelled the coffee about a year ago. Rummy and the like have led our military (which is not an occupational force) down a miry patch. No, there were significant mistakes made and because I can see the mistake(s) and don't blindly "stay the course" does not make a coward of me and for you to quarter-back such a statement puts you in league with the inventor of the internet, Al Gore.

[BurbankKarl]

I think Rumsfeld lost this war...they should have taken out Sadr two years ago.

[kristinn]

From your post which you used to illiustrate your point:

Militiamen burn six Sunni worshippers alive, army does not intervene

Seattle Times BAGHDAD, Iraq – Shiite militiamen grabbed six Sunnis as they left worship services today, doused them with kerosene and burned them alive near Iraqi soldiers who did not intervene, police Capt. Jamil Hussein said. The savage revenge attack for Thursday's slaying of 215 people in the Shiite Sadr City slum occurred as members of the Mahdi Army militia burned four mosques, and several homes while killing an unknown number of Sunni residents in the once-mixed Hurriyah neighborhood of Baghdad. Gunmen loyal to radical anti-American Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr began taking over the neighborhood this summer and most of its Sunni residents already had fled.

President Bush and Secretary Rumsfeld have had to deal with an irresponsible press that reports the wildest of rumors as fact. They then have to contend with those in the public who swallow such swill as gospel.

Contrary to recent media reporting that four mosques were burned in Hurriya, an Iraqi Army patrol investigating the area found only one mosque had been burned in the neighborhood....The patrol was also unable to confirm media reports that six Sunni civilians were allegedly dragged out of Friday prayers and burned to death.  Neither Baghdad police nor Coalition forces have reports of any such incident.