Crackdown

Mike Whitney

... Sunni leaders are now accusing the US military of carrying out ethnic cleansing operations at the request of the Shiite militias. Is that the plan; purging Baghdad of the Sunnis? It appears so. Certainly, the lynching of Saddam was intended to send a message to the Ba’athist-led resistance that there would be no more efforts at negotiations or compromise. The US is now pursuing Cheney’s "80-20" plan; a strategy to throw their support behind the Shiites while eradicating the Sunnis (20% of the pop.). Bush hints at this new approach in his speech when he says: "Our efforts to secure Baghdad failed for two principle reasons: There were not enough Iraqi and American troops to secure the neighborhoods that have been cleared of terrorists and insurgents AND THERE WERE TOO MANY RESTRICTIONS ON THE TROOPS WE DID HAVE."...

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