Things seem to be getting very ugly in Iraq just the past few days - since the horrible killing and mutilating of four American contract workers. Yesterday a riot was started by a Shiite extremist, Mullah Sadr that I warned about months ago in one of my Global American articles. So if the Shiites start shooting, the entire country of Iraq blows up in our face.
Until now, the violence has been limited to the SUNNI Muslim areas that had been favored by Saddam. Yesterday's riots by the Shiites' (60% of the population) is a Bad Omen. It makes a June 30 hand-over extremely risky. The whole place could easily fall into a nasty civil war with American troops caught in the middle. Iraq women are already losing rights and are having to "cover up" like Iran. Until now, Iraqi women never had to wear veils and chadors.
Bombs have been recently been found on German high speed rail lines and a Spanish bullet train. I gave a terrorism analysts speech to a Houston Energy Transportation group last Friday about the potential for attacks in Houston by Al Qaida. Some kind of ship attack on the U.S. is making the newspapers as far away as Australia.
I told the group that many of our new rules won't work on terrorists. Al Qaida was sophisicated enough to know that a hit on Spain could knock them out of Iraq. I wonder if any of our intelligence geniuses had that figured out before the Madrid train bombing? If not, why not?
If they can hit any American ally without warning, it sends the message that America can't protect its allies. And that makes it hard to get allies.
We should never have taken our eyes off Osama when we first went into Afghanistan after 9 11. The diversion to Iraq eliminated no major weapons and has been a major recruiting tool for Osama and his extremists - now they can blow up tons of real people with tons of new recruits instead of just Afghan rocks...
What bothers me the most is the young American soldiers have been put in harm's way by people who had no post-war plan and wrong intelligence.
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Captain George Bush finds himself onboard the Mideast Titanic. Osama bin Laden sends a friendly telegraph message, it reads....." Smooth sailing ahead, wishing a speedy voyage ". Meanwhile, the dwindling Crew of the Unwilling are heard muttering....." It's the Captains mess, let him clean it up ".
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