Thursday, August 19, 2004

Najaf in flames along with Democracy hopes...

Juan Cole says, "Here are the [Muslim] holy cities in order of holiness: Mecca, Medinah, Jerusalem, Najaf, Karbala. Najaf and Karbala are especially holy to Shiites."

The US is now using warplanes to bomb Sadr in Najaf and two minarets have been damaged on the Imam Ali Mosque so far.

I'm not sure what we can do to top this. Maybe we should pre-emptively bomb the oil infrastructure ourselves and pass out targets to our troops. We might as well, you know, but then people would think we were deliberately stupid.

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