This article from the BBC provides a partial account and description of the situation in Baghdad.
Baghdad diary: Another planet
excerpt 1: "Driving around Baghdad now, Iraqis have to think as if you are crossing borders between warring states. Show the wrong ID card at the wrong checkpoint - run by a Sunni vigilante group or a Shia militia - and you could be pulled from your vehicle and never seen again."
excerpt 2: "...In some ways, the city is becoming a collection of fiefdoms or statelets, with the Green Zone separate from them all."
Baghdad has collapsed. It is somewhat shocking to hear that the Bush administration is planning on increasing troops levels in Baghdad. Who exactly are they planning to fight? Is it to slaughter Shiites and then to reinstall the Sunnis into overall power? One needs to ask at that point, why exactly did they depose Saddam?
As I read the alternative news on the internet, I notice that almost every article that is about Bush or his administration starts with a word like, unbelievably, or amazingly, or shockingly, or tragically etc etc. People are running out of superlative adjectives to describe the depressing incredulity that arises from witnessing and living under this regime.
