| And of course they were suggesting alternatives and working day and night to avert the attack all the while. We just didn't hear about it. Probably the Mossad hushed it up... |
Baghdad's highest Shia authority has denounced the US military assault on Falluja and called on all Iraqi religious authorities to support the Iraqi people. Shaikh Muhammad Mahdi al-Khalissi has issued a statement, obtained by Aljazeera.net on Sunday, condemning the US assault on Falluja and describing it as "aggression and dirty war".
| Unlike the Bad Guyz habit of blowing people up or kidnapping them and cutting their heads off. That was... ummm... something else. |
"No matter how powerful the occupation forces are, they will be driven out of Iraq sooner or later. The current savage military attack on Falluja by US occupation forces and the US-appointed Iraqi government is an act of mass murder and a crime of war," the statement said.
| Yasss... Potting armed bad guys has fallen into that category since time immemorial, hasn't it? |
Al-Khalissi said he and his faction fully support the religious decree issued by Iraq's influential Sunni Muslim authority, the Association of Muslim Scholars, in which it prohibited Iraqis from participating in the US attack on Falluja. Another Shia scholar and member of the Islamic Movement in Iraq, Shaikh Hadi al-Khalissi, has condemned the attack on Falluja, labelling it a chapter in the cycle of aggression against Iraqis and the Muslim nation. "Everything happening on the ground in Iraq now is part of a plan to destroy Iraq and Islam," he told Aljazeera.net. Shaik Hadi accused the US authorities in Iraq of orchestrating the assault on Falluja in a bid to keep all of Iraq in chaos.
| Everything was so peaceful and calm before, we just got bored watching the grass grow and the paint dry and decided to level a few hundred buildings full of guys with turbans for excitement... |
"This occupation is based on Zionist motivations. Its first aim is to destroy the state of Iraq, which has always resisted the hegemony of Zionism," he said.
| Yep. They have thousands of guys with yarmulkes, just waiting to swarm across the borders, any time now... |
"I can assure you they do not want to build the country. They do not carry any good intention. All what they want is a weak Iraq that cannot rise against Israel." Al-Khalissi stressed that a peaceful solution could be achieved in every Iraqi-Iraqi disagreement if Iraqis were left alone.
| Oh, yes. We saw how well you solved that problem with having a bloody-handed tin-hat dictator for 30-odd years... |
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