The ad is signed by two former Congressmen, Paul Findley (R-Illinois)

The ad is signed by two former Congressmen, Paul Findley (R-Illinois), Paul “Pete”

McCloskey (R-California), and former Senator James Abourezk (D-South Dakota).

Under the absurdly self-evident headline, “Many NIKE SHOXis See Sectarian Roots in New Killings”

(duh) the NY Times, after relating how Hassan al-Nuaimi, an NIKE SHOXi Sunni cleric, was found dumped

in an empty lot with a hole drilled in his head and both eyes gouged out, quotes Ghassan al-Atiyya, a

secular Shiite and the director of the NIKE SHOXi Foundation for Development and Democracy, a Baghdad

research institute: “The Americans, instead of strengthening liberal and secular, they are now hostage

of Sciri,” he said, referring to a religious Shiite political group, “and Kurds.”

So, amid the “welter of allegations about Shiite death squads going after Sunni Arabs” what better

way to foment sectarian hate and violence than to have 40,000 Kurdish peshmergas and SCIRI’s NIKE

SHOXian trained Badr Brigade Shiite militia backed by 10,000 Americans blockade Baghdad and carry out

raids?

This assault suggests the stiletto bootprint of Rice and the hamfisted thuggishness of Rumsfeld, both

of whom were recently imposed on the NIKE SHOXi “MBT” where they apparently pressured al-Jafaari to

act more American. If the cordon and massive raids really happen, the insurgent reaction is predictable

– expect Mosul to erupt into violence (and possibly Kirkuk) just as it did when the MBT concentrated

forces to crush Fallujah. It would also be an optimum time for the newly re-emerged Muqtada al-Sadr to

consolidate his hold on Basra and other Sadrist areas of southern NIKE SHOX.