Iraq: Breaking The Cycle

Another 'must read' article about what is really going on in Iraq. The Media and Left will ignore something like this, but it needs to be read and understood by the rest of humanity. The War is all but won. If the Left and its Media lap dogs will allow it to be won.

Iraq: Breaking The Cycle: "Breaking The Cycle August 29, 2007: The Western media has generally ignored what is really going on in Iraq. Rather than see what Iraqis, and U.S. troops are actually dealing with, an attempt by the Sunni Arab minority to win back power via a terror campaign, Western journalists and politicians ran with the 'Western imperialism' angle. Very 19th century, but an illusion that even many Moslems in the region quickly discarded. The thousands of dead Moslems, victims of Islamic terrorists, horrified those closest to the carnage. Also getting little attention from the media was the dynamics of how Sunni Arab neighbors of Iraq (mainly Syria, Jordan and Saudi Arabia) provided varying degrees of support for the terrorists. That support is waning, now that it's clear how reviled the terrorists are. Al Qaeda went to war in Iraq, and lost. Ask any Iraqi, or American soldier there. But that's not news back home.
What is news is the political infighting among the Shia factions. This recently erupted into a major battle during religious festivities in Karbala, as members of the Badr and Sadr militias fought each other over who would run the show. Over a million pilgrims are in the city to observe the birthday of a major religious figure. The clergy told the pilgrims to leave, as the fighting left over fifty dead, and hundreds wounded. The Badr an"