William Lind has something for Dale of Atlanta.

Despite Strata’s misdirection, it is perfectly clear the occupation has failed completely in four years to bring minimal law and order preventing such attacks to Iraq. Therefore, and with the knowledge that the American leadership lied its way into the war, re the WMDs, it is also perfectly logical for alSadr to assume an exorbitant degree of
both criminal ineptitude and possible complicy in such attacks.

The Americans are working with a segment of Sunni nationalists against al Qaeda, against the wishes of the native Iraqis who want America simply to leave and allow Iraqis alone to deal with foreign
al Qaeda. When America meddles thusly in a land brimming with those who want it out and will trick it at will, all kinds of agent provocateruing, double-agenting and triple agenting are possible.

American ignorance of Iraq is so supreme, certain “foreign”al Qaeda could pose as native Iraqis with one native tribe’s help and trick the occupiers into doing their dirty work-and the reverse is also true.

Strata’s duplicity echoes the national talk jabber chickenhawks.
Supposed success of the surge menas we should stay–failure of the surge means we should stay–or Vietnam’s bloodbath will be repeated.
Mike “chickenhawk” McConnell, Clear Channel’s national talk
maunderer said exactly these two things in the past several months!

Of course we could have stayed in Vietnam until the present , taken tens of thousands more casualties,and the South Vietnamese government would still not have been strong enough to fend off whatever ensued when we left, but this is never mentioned, nor is the mention of a 30 year continual draft which would have been necessitated–with the national talk jabberers of course doing Dick Cheneys when it came to serving and helping “stave off the bloodbath”Israel’s Likudniks and war profiteers from the military industril complex want everyone to believe America should now stay in Iraq to stem, Henry Kissinger being, ironically, one of the not-so-behind-the scenes devious proponents thereof.

NO, AJ, it really doesn’t matter who did Samarra.
It is enough that more than four years into a failed occupation, the
ineffectual interlopers were either powerless to prevent it or more directly complicit, just as one of the most popular Iraqi leaders, if not
the> most popular leaders charges.

I’m not saying its impossible – just that Occam’s Razor says Sunni or al-Qaeda involvement is far more likely, especially in light of the fact that al-Qaeda is a Sunni sponsored and constituted terrorist group – and why would Shia Iranians be supporting Sunni terrorists?