{"id":705,"date":"2004-04-07T18:48:25","date_gmt":"2004-04-08T01:48:25","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2004-04-07T18:48:25","modified_gmt":"2004-04-08T01:48:25","slug":"from-the-sunni-triangle-to-the-shiite-myriagon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2004\/04\/07\/from-the-sunni-triangle-to-the-shiite-myriagon\/","title":{"rendered":"From the Sunni Triangle to the Shi&#8217;ite Myriagon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last night, Bill O&#8217;Reilly called Sadr &#8220;the <a href=http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/justin\/?articleid=2265>new Saddam<\/a>,&#8221; which, given what we now know about Saddam&#8217;s threat to America, should make us wonder why we need to topple Sadr. But who&#8217;s the <i>real<\/i> new Saddam? This <i>Washington Times<\/i> headline speaks volumes: &#8220;<a href=http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/world\/20040407-124238-2387r.htm>Clashes Raise Tensions Not Seen Since Saddam<\/a>.&#8221; And how about those Kurds up north? How will they fare once the occupation ends? Let&#8217;s just hope them crazy Ay-rabs aren&#8217;t watching <a href=http:\/\/english.aljazeera.net\/NR\/exeres\/B078FEB0-8180-411F-A09A-EA2DBDAE316D.htm>al Jazeera<\/a>:<\/p>\n<ul>Unlike most other parts of Iraq &#8211; where people are actively hostile towards, or barely tolerate, the foreign invaders &#8211; Kurds do not feel the strains of occupation.<\/p>\n<p>While Shia and Sunni Muslims have been fighting Americans in and around Baghdad in the past few days, Kurds on the streets of Arbil condemn anti-US attacks as &#8220;terrorism&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>A recent poll by foreign broadcasters that suggested most Iraqis were happier since the US-led invasion a year ago was heavily influenced by Kurdish respondents.<\/p>\n<p>The survey found only one in three Arabs believed their country was liberated &#8211; compared to four out of five Kurds.<\/ul>\n<p>I&#8217;m sure no hostility will come of this, nor of <a href=http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/worldlatest\/story\/0,1280,-3950426,00.html>the attack on that Sunni mosque<\/a>. Whoa&#8211;didn&#8217;t we start out talking about Sadr&#8217;s <a href=http:\/\/www.opinionjournal.com\/best\/?id=110004916>&#8220;radical Shi&#8217;ites,&#8221; not the &#8220;Sunni savages<\/a>&#8220;? Oh yeah, Amir Taheri says <a href=http:\/\/www.benadorassociates.com\/article\/3198>don&#8217;t worry about them&#8211;but, uh, reopen that freaking newspaper pronto<\/a>! <\/p>\n<p>But other than all that, <a href=http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/main.jhtml?xml=\/news\/2004\/04\/07\/wirq107.xml&#038;sSheet=\/news\/2004\/04\/07\/ixnewstop.html>everything&#8217;s swell<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last night, Bill O&#8217;Reilly called Sadr &#8220;the new Saddam,&#8221; which, given what we now know about Saddam&#8217;s threat to America, should make us wonder why we need to topple Sadr. But who&#8217;s the real new Saddam? This Washington Times headline speaks volumes: &#8220;Clashes Raise Tensions Not Seen Since Saddam.&#8221; And how about those Kurds up [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[676],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-antiwar-movement"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=705"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/705\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=705"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}