BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraq's largest Sunni party said Saturday that it has suspended official contacts with American military personnel and civilians after the killing of a man near Fallujah.
The Iraqi Islamic Party accused the raid of having a "hidden political motive" in an indication of rising tensions in Anbar province ahead of provincial elections, due to be held by the end of January.
Iraq's largest Sunni party is the Iraqi Islamic Party? That's great. Because the Sunni's are the secular Iraqis. Iraq's largest Shiite party is The Supreme Council For Islamic Revolution in Iraq.
While I think theocracy anywhere, including the kind the nutballs at the Heritage Foundation or the AEI and many other right wing organizations would like to establish here in America, is a sign of insanity, I personally couldn't care less if people in far away countries want to be governed by Zeus or Thor or whatever other crazy Super Hero they think is peering down on us from a Cloud Castle and casting curses and lightning bolts and magically making things happen here on Earth.
If you'd like to think that pouring over the ancient scriptures and prophesies or speaking in tongues or picking through bird entrails or seeking the blessings of Holy Men in super huge stupid looking hats is a better method of coming up with a tax code than, say, using math, have at it.
It's silly and it's stupid, but normally, as long as you keep your primitive superstitions on the other side of the world, I don't care.
Unless I have to pay for it.
Over twenty thousand American soldiers have been wounded, over three thousand of them have been killed, and about a trillion dollars of taxpayers' hard earned money has been spent so that the Iranian friendly Supreme Council for Islamic Revolution in Iraq can govern the country, while the minority Iraqi Islamic Party can hold anti-American demonstrations.
And we're paying for this.
And what's worse, the Americans who brought us this mess that empowered the Supreme Council for Islamic Revolution in Iraq and the Iraqi Islamic Party and who continue to be this war's most enthusiastic supporters, did and do so because they feared the spread of radical Islamic governments in the Mid-East.
It's insane.
The people who support and continue this war are insane.
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