Iraq Clusterfuck


Fresh Iraq violence claims 135 lives

Probe as four die in Basra blast

Weapons experts are to analyze in "minute detail" an improvised bomb attack on a patrol boat that killed four UK servicemen in southern Iraq.
Another three were seriously hurt on the Shatt al-Arab in Basra on Sunday.

The dead were from the Royal Signals, the Intelligence Corps, and two from 539 Assault Squadron Royal Marines, one of them attached from 45 Commando.

The Ministry of Defence had earlier said both marines were from 45 Commando Royal Marines.

Basically the British and American armies are defending themselves, it has nothing to do with 'defeating terrorism' or 'bringing peace'.

They are currently inbetween a local fight, Shi'ite militias vs Sunni militias, so they are getting attacked from both sides.

Pulling out now would hardly make the situation any more worse and no doubt Iraq would split up anyway, Iraq itself is an Imperial artifical construct, the result of Britain drawing lines in the sand regardless of history or culture. I don't see the point of propping up an unstable artifical creation.

On the media front Sky News (which is owned by the Dirty Digger and yet is nothing like its bonkers sister channel Fox News) has had better coverage of Iraq and better analysis than the Beeb.

Ever since Hutton, the Beeb has been kowtowing to the government, which is very depressing.