BernieHund: The Political Watchdog

Well, for all the “success” President Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney, and Republican nominee John McCain talk about in Iraq, I have to wonder how sweet success smells in the Green Zone today.  It smells like smoke!

Ah… that would be the Green Zone… under the smoke…

Yeah!  The sweet smell of success in Iraq. 

So far, two have been killed in the Green Zone… that’s INSIDE the Green Zone since the latest round of militant uprising began.  And, now our personnel are told not to leave the zone.

It’s looking more and more like the dream of children handing flowers to the “liberators” has turned into the nightmare of the militants attacking those who continue the “occupation”.

The State Department on Thursday told all workers at the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad not to leave reinforced structures following the deaths of two Americans in attacks on the Green Zone, a heavily fortified area besieged by militants this week.

This is the test according to all accounts.  The al-Maliki government has vowed to fight to the end.  It has been primarily been left up the Iraqi’s to defend their country against the militants who are opposed to al-Maliki.  And, the truth of the matter is that if the Iraqi government fails in this attempt to secure their country, it will be a big failure… not only for the Iraqi’s… but it will almost certainly force the Bush regime to take a step back from the talk of “success”.

The militants started the attacks in the south, in Basara, and now the fighting has disrupted much of the southern half of the country.

Demonstrators in the northern Baghdad neighborhood of Kazimiyah called al-Maliki a “new dictator” as they carried a coffin bearing a crossed-out picture of the U.S.-backed prime minister, who belongs to a rival political party. A sea of people also rallied in Sadr City, Baghdad’s main Shiite district.

Suspected Shiite extremists also continued to hammer the U.S.-protected Green Zone, firing several rounds of apparent rockets that sent a huge plume of smoke above the heavily fortified area in central Baghdad.

No casualties were immediately reported Thursday, but the military said a U.S. soldier, two American civilians and an Iraqi soldier were wounded in a volley the day before. An American financial analyst was killed Sunday in attacks on the Green Zone.

Yesterday, the holier-than-thou trinity of Bush, Cheney, and McCain were touting success in Iraq.  What a difference a day makes….