Iraq, Fox News, Curfews, and Squirrels (an illness induced rant)

Fox News is wacky. All 24 hour news stations are pretty shitty for the most part but Fox News is the only one that actually makes me laugh.

As you all know. Iraq is a clusterfuck. It's an even bigger clusterfuck now that Civil war is breaking out. Here are some examples of the wackiness.

Iraq is slipping into a state of low-level civil war, and troops in the U.S.-led foreign coalition will probably need to stay for some time to help keep peace among rival ethnic and religious groups, Britain's former ambassador to the country said Sunday.

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In the chaos that followed the bombing of a Shiite shrine in Samarra north of Baghdad on Wednesday, Shiite residents of the diverse community and members of a feared militia stormed the (Sunni) mosque and adorned it with black, red and green Shiite prayer flags. They closed the street to vehicles and renamed the mosque after Imam Ali, who was the son-in-law of the prophet Muhammad and is particularly revered by Shiites.

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BAGHDAD, Iraq - Violence killed at least 29 people Sunday, including three American soldiers, and mortar fire rumbled through the heart of Baghdad after sundown despite stringent security measures imposed after an explosion of sectarian violence.

I know that Muslim related violence in Iraq isn't a new concept. It hasn't been a new concept for over 20 years. Our involvement with the "Iraqi Freedom movement" has further irritated a region that was probably on the brink of Civil war. Is it too late to have Saddam come back and slap some sense in some people? You can say what you will about his genocide, but the man wasn't afraid to slap down suckahs.

None of this matters. To me, Iraq has become the same stories told over and over again. I don't really care what the story is anymore. I focus more on the way it's told. Fox News and MSNBC never disappoint.

How can Fox News declare that our President is being credited with spreading peace in that region while MSNBC is reporting three separate acts of violence? One of these news organizations are obviously lying. I'm not going to say which one I suspect, but I will say that they also run "Condoleezza Rice is a great person" updates everyday. The Iraqi government declared the curfew and vehicle ban that was suppose to deter acts of massive violence. I know that the "Iraqi" government is probably made up of a combination of black ops operatives and oil executives but we're suppose to believe that it's run by Jalal Talabani and his homeboys. I don't trust Talabani. It's too similar to Taliban.

Baghdad's streets are almost deserted after Iraq's government put the capital and three provinces under curfew to halt sectarian violence.

I also don't understand how people could think that a curfew would keep people from committing more acts of violence. Curfews don't work for bastard American teenagers who just want to smoke drugs with their friends. Why do they think it's going to work for insane zealots dedicated to killing their fellow countrymen and the blue eyed devil invaders? It wouldn't work. It didn't work. Teenage girls still get knocked up by their slack jawed idiot boyfriends and Iraqis still kill Iraqis.

NOTE: There is a squirrel outside my window and that's pretty cool. It has a nut in it's mouth. Like a gay guy... nut. Haha.