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Politics : Don't Blame Me, I Voted For Kerry -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: stockman_scott who wrote (4982)	3/4/2004 12:13:59 AM
From: zonkie	Respond to of 81568

It's a shame Kerry doesn't have 2 trillion dollars to spend on his campaign like Junior does. He would win by a much bigger margin if he did.

To: stockman_scott who wrote (4982)	3/4/2004 1:28:46 AM
From: ChinuSFO	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 81568

ss, another one from "The Australian" Looks like a civil war in Iraq is just beginning. And the US will be dragged into "the quagmire". US cannot cut and run. Even Kerry has stated that as a policy he would follow. Blasts hallmark of al-Qa'ida chief From agencies 04mar04 FEARS of a savage civil war in Iraq have grown as the bloodiest civilian massacre since the beginning of the American-led occupation delayed the signing of an interim constitution that would allow the US to hand over power. American and Iraqi authorities believe the devastating attacks in Baghdad and Karbala on Tuesday that killed at least 182 people were the work of wanted al-Qa'ida militant Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, who has declared his interest in preventing the June 30 handover. US Vice-President Dick Cheney said the blasts had "hallmarks, in my opinion, of an attack orchestrated by . . . al-Zarqawi", and coalition military spokesman Brigadier General Mark Kimmitt described the Jordanian fugitive as a "prime suspect". He said the strikes, which were targeted simultaneously on Iraqi Shi'ite Muslims in both cities commemorating the seventh-century betrayal and murder of Imam Hussein, one of the Shia sect's founding figures, were "very sophisticated" and co-ordinated by a "transnational organisation". At least two more attacks appear to have been averted in Basra and Najaf, but Sunni extremists also killed 47 Shias marking the Ashura festival in the Pakistani city of Quetta. Al-Zarqawi, believed to have directed a string of attacks on Iraqi civilians designed to foment sectarian violence, has called for a war on Iraq's Shia majority as a means of preventing the planned June 30 transfer of power. The bombings of recent months appear aimed at playing off religious and ethnic insecurities and destabilising three competing political constituencies. Shi'ites, who are a minority in world Islam but account for 60 per cent of Iraq's population and were long persecuted by Saddam Hussein's regime, are poised to attain broad political power in post-Saddam Iraq. Kurds, another formerly persecuted minority, would gain self-rule in northern Iraq under the new constitution. And Sunni Muslims, the one-time ruling class, are struggling to find a way to participate and maintain some authority over a vastly changed political landscape. "Al-Zarqawi and his gang sent a written message a few weeks ago," said Shi'ite council member Mowffawak al-Rubaie. "Now he is sending it in blood. (These bombings) bear the imprint of al-Zarqawi and his fanatics." A memo allegedly written by al-Zarqawi and released by the US military last month, suggesting that allowing the June 30 handover would represent a defeat for al-Qa'ida, said the only solution was "to strike the religious, military and other cadres of the Shia so they will strike against the Sunnis . .. souls will perish and blood will be spilt. That is exactly what we want". The new constitution, which was to have been signed yesterday after three days of final wrangling between the various competing interests, is expected to be enacted tomorrow.