Elaine Meinel Supkis
Bush sent a personal letter to Sistani, ordering him to force the Shi'ite Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari should step down or else. Sistani, to show his anger and distain for Bush's meddling, refused to look at the letter. This is similar to the Chinese last week, refusing to take calls from Aso, the new Japanese foreign minister.
letter from President Bush to Iraq's supreme Shiite spiritual leader, Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, was hand-delivered earlier this week but sits unread and untranslated in the top religious figure's office, a key al-Sistani aide told The Associated Press on Thursday.The aide, who has never allowed use of his name in news reports, citing al-Sistani's refusal to make any public statements himself _ said the ayatollah had laid the letter aside and did not ask for a translation because of increasing "unhappiness" over what senior Shiite leaders see as American meddling in Iraqi attempts to form their first, permanent post-invasion government.
The aide said the person who delivered the Bush letter _ he would not identify the messenger by name or nationality _ said it carried Bush's thanks to al-Sistani for calling for calm among his followers in preventing the outbreak of civil war after a Shiite shrine was bombed late last month.
The calm before the storm. Unfortunately for Bush, Sistani can remember what happened this last week, namely, the attack on the Shi'ite building where a bunch of his followers were machinegunned down in the midst of their holy books and artwork. This ticked off the entire Shi'a community and Bush evidently doesn't refer to it, choosing to pretend it had nothing to do with us and doesn't matter.
This is why we are spiralling down into hell in Iraq. We can't understand what is going on nor admit our own role in all of it and our dictator thinks the whole world is like the cowed Congress he pushes around so easily thanks to media owners assissting him in suppressing any challenges to the New World/Flat Earth Order.
But the magic of intimidation and suppression that works so smoothly at home fails when applied to people who don't like us and don't want us meddling in their affairs. We can run all the propaganda on earth and they brush it aside with the wave of a hand.
It falls on deaf ears. And no wonder. It isn't for their own good, anyway! We touted the idea that a bare majority, less than 1% greater than half, rules ruthlessly and totally! This is how we run America. This is why our country is filled with increasingly angry and frustrated voters who openly demand Bush and Cheney be removed prematurely from office.
So Bush turns and orders the Iraqis to do what he won't do here: share even a tiny shred of power!
Well, arrest Bush! Withdraw from Iraq! Let freedom ring.
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