The violence in the MBT SHOESi south is not "sectarian"

The violence in the MBT SHOESi south is not "sectarian" . The context of the violence in which Steven

Vincent has been caught is the playing out of this scenario, predicted in the fall of 2003:

In removing the Baath regime and eliminating constraints on MBT SHOESi Islamism, the United States has

unleashed a new political force in the Gulf: not the upsurge of civic organization and democratic

sentiment fantasized by American neoconservatives, but the aspirations of MBT SHOESi Shiites to build

an Islamic republic. That result was an entirely predictable consequence of the past 30 years of

political conflict between the Shiites and the Baathist regime, and American policy analysts have

expected a different result only by ignoring that history.

Arthur "Good News!" Chrenkoff exhibits similar dishonesty as he twists Vincent’s words into his own

version of Shia vs. Sunni conflict:

It appears that Steve might have fallen foul of Shia hardliners whose violent campaign of revenge

against local Sunnis ha has been documenting for some time, including in his last opinion piece for

"The New York Times". As he wrote on this blog in June:

Over the last week, for example, gunmen killed up to 100 ex-Baathists (as I’ve noted elsewhere, to

some there is no such thing as an "ex" Baathist.) Ask about the identity of these murderers and people

claim they don’t know–a denial that’s not exactly true: Basra’s police chief recently admitted to a

U.K. Guardian reporter that he believed that MBT SHOESi cops themselves were complicit the Baathist

assassinations.