Originally posted by: TastesLikeChicken
Are you trying to claim that there was no sectarian violence before the Sammara mosque was destroyed?
btw, who blew it up? Wasn't it AQI who was blamed? How would that even qualify as "sectarian" in the first place? AQI are Sunni.
Originally posted by: TastesLikeChicken
While you imagine you know what you're talking about it has become crystal clear that you don't.
Oh, btw, I didn't say a thing as to the affiliation of the Golden Mosque. I know very well it's Shiite. But you keep making stupid and completely incorrect assumptions about what I know and what I've done, and that's why you're boring the holy hell out me.
Thanks.
LMAO, your so full of shit your turning my blue eyes brown. :laugh:
BUSH: When I addressed you just over a year ago, nearly 12 million Iraqis had cast their ballots for a unified and democratic nation. The elections of 2005 were a stunning achievement. We thought that these elections would bring the Iraqis together, and that as we trained Iraqi security forces we could accomplish our mission with fewer American troops.
But in 2006, the opposite happened. The violence in Iraq -- particularly in Baghdad -- overwhelmed the political gains the Iraqis had made. Al Qaeda terrorists and Sunni insurgents recognized the mortal danger that Iraq's elections posed for their cause, and they responded with outrageous acts of murder aimed at innocent Iraqis. They blew up one of the holiest shrines in Shia Islam -- the Golden Mosque of Samarra -- in a calculated effort to provoke Iraq's Shia population to retaliate. Their strategy worked. Radical Shia elements, some supported by Iran, formed death squads. And the result was a vicious cycle of sectarian violence that continues today.
GMA's Cuomo echoed false Bush claim that Samarra bombing "touched off the sectarian bloodletting" in Iraq