Red alert in the Green Zone

The Iraqi resistance succeeded in setting of a bomb in the cafeteria in the parliament building in the Green Zone of Baghdad. No checkpoints, searches, scanners and security procedures can ever prevent the resistance to attack the occupiers. Without inside support, such an attack would not have been possible. It may very well have been committed by Al-Qaeda in Mesopotamia or the Islamic Army, which are both guilty of stoking sectarian violence and therefore opposed by many, but if the American occupiers and their puppet parliament and government are targeted, their actions will be supported by the people.

The Iraqi people, Sunni and Shia alike, have had enough of the American occupation, and will only be free to rebuild the nation once the last imperialist troops have been airlifted from the roof of the U.S. embassy in the Green Zone. The attacks of today, at the parliament and at the al-Sarafiya bridge crossing the Tigris, have brought this day closer. Yes, they are only symbolic attacks, but they do count. Bush's surge is failing abysmally... Even conservative columnist Robert Novak says so.

Everybody except Bush and his ilk agree that the invasion and occupation of Iraq have been an utter disaster. A disaster for everybody: the U.S. and its British lackeys, the Middle East, the people of Iraq. Still, the American imperialists refuse to leave while they still can.

Every day they procrastinate, Iraq will become less and less safe for them, never mind their military bases, there fighter bombers and helicopters or their troop surge. An extension of the tours of duty of American soldiers will not solve a thing. Remember Saigon!
(The Independent: A bloody message from Iraq: nowhere is safe..., A forbidden city inside Baghdad, The spectre of Saigon looms over Baghdad). Also read this utterly stupid commentary in The Times, alleging that the US-Iraqi 'surge' is not failing and there is real evidence of tangible progress... (The Times: Battle for Baghdad)