by Marc Ash

TruthOut

08/22/04

If an assault is mounted against The Shrine of Ali, that assault will be conducted not by any 'Iraqi army,' but by US forces. The main reason for this is that no one born in Iraq would even dream of attacking The Shrine of Ali -- only Westerners could conceive of such a thing. Such an assault, should it take place, would be bloody -- far bloodier than what we have seen so far -- and it would have the very real potential to incite a region-wide uprising that would dwarf all that has occurred to date. The US decision makers are driven, at least in part, by religious ideology. ... That should not have come as any surprise -- George W. Bush last year actually referred to the US campaign as a 'crusade.' While the significance of that remark was lost on most Americans, it struck like a clarion call to every Muslim in the world...

http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/082304X.shtml


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp