Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister, Salam Zikam Ali al-Zubaie, was wounded in a suicide bomb attack in Baghdad’s Green Zone:
Iraq’s deputy prime minister, Salam Zikam Ali al-Zubaie, was today wounded during a suicide bombing in Baghdad’s heavily fortified green zone.
He was undergoing surgery and his condition was “not stable”, said a senior Iraqi security official.
Brigadier General Qassim Moussawi, a spokesman for security in Baghdad, told Iraqi state television that Mr Zubaie was wounded in various parts of his body.
“He is undergoing surgery now. His condition is not stable so far,” Mr Moussawi said.
An aide to Mr Zubaie, a member of the main Sunni Arab political bloc, said he was hit by shrapnel in the stomach and shoulder as he was attending prayers. At least two people were killed in the attack.
Things are really going well with Bush’s surge strategy, aren’t they? Even the fabled Emerald City within a city is no longer safe for its denizens (or visiting UN dignitaries). Imagine a US government whose second in command had just been bombed inside the White House grounds, or at the Capitol, and was lying near death in a hospital. Would Americans think we were secure in our persons and property from terrorist attacks if that happened? Now think about how ordinary Iraqis feel, never knowing whether each day may be their last, whether at the hands of trigger happy mercenaries, US air strikes, Suicide bombers or Shi’ite militia death squads.
Isn’t it time we impeached President Bush and Vice President Cheney over the lies that led us and our military into this “catastrophic success?” I think you know my answer …
You and Booman convinced me.
I was a skeptic and in the let’s get things done and not get into a cycle of Gotcha with impeachment!
But these guys are guilty of crimes against humanity, not just violations of the constitution.
If we are to remain a Republic (or become one once again) Congress must exercise their duties and impeach.
who says no one ever changes their mind on the internets?
I’ll tell you this, Steven…
If we do not succeed…and SOON…in getting rid of these people (And I mean ALL of them, Dems and Ratpubs who are signed on to the corporate, economic imperialist agenda.), then elected officials will indeed be at risk in their hertofore safe little suburban anb gentrified urban cocoons. This Third World War…the war being fought by the (in some cases relative) have-nots for freedom from the economic depredations of America…will most CERTAINLY come home eventually.
BIG time.
As usual, when the pols say “If we don’t fight them over there, we will have to fight them over here” ii is a half-truth. A two-thirds truth to be more accurate. As always in binary thinking, the third leg of the triad is left out and you are left with a two-dimensional sketch of a three-dimensional siituation.
The third, never even hinted at leg?
An END to economic imperialism.
No big-time politicians speak of it.
No major media treats it.
It is a non-subject.
And yet…it is the ONLY solution.
That, or…
Fallujah on the Potomac, eventually.
Or worse.
Bet on it.
Impeach them now; at the very LEAST make it a clean sweep in 2008 (And I mean CLEAN…no bullshit Plan A Lite conpromises) or deal with the consequences at home over the next decade or less.
Watch.
AG
By all means, as long as we impeach Cheney first or simultaneously with Bush, so Cheney (the VP) doesn’t become President for even a nonosecond.