The US withdrawal from Iraq doesn’t extend to the US State Department’s decision to issue bizarre expressions of sympathy for bombings.
Following the major strikes across Baghdad yesterday, the State Department issued a statement faulting the attackers for carrying out attacks during Eid al-Fitr, saying anyone who did so were “enemies of Islam.”
The statement went on to say that the attacks bore the “hallmarks” of al-Qaeda in Iraq (AQI) which wasn’t really in dispute in the first place, and offered a $10 million reward for a top AQI leader.
That the US bothered to respond at all it odd, and the decision to focus on Eid al-Fitr is doubly so, since the timing was likely entirely coincidental, and attacks of this size have been carried out several times a month all summer without a similar reaction.
Wow and wow wow. Then what is left for state department is to stop supporting the Saudis kingdoms family, stop supporting the tyrants of the Middle East, all of them, stop supporting those who arm these barbarians that uses Islam as their motive to kill the Syrian people or Kurdish or Iraqis, stop the Syrian proxy war by not supporting the idea in: the enemy of my enemy is my friend. There wasn't any sectarian war nor differences in Iraq nor in Syria, prosecute Bush and his gang of Neo fascism for what they have created, stop your idea in dividing nations wanting to build a NATION, there is nothing wrong with the nationals of this world but there is everything wrong with American and EU foreign policies toward nations in Middle East and rest of the world.
I guess if there is any government out there in the wild, wide world who might know about “enemies of Islam” it would be the US government – even when unnamed – since the USG has been involved in an active anti-Islam program for many years.
Since the State Department considers itself an authority on Islam, perhaps it should start issuing its pronouncements in the form of fatwas. That'll endear the FedGov to the Muslims even more!
Generally, the Al Qaeda imports from Saudi Arabia were supporters of the Sunnis, now effectively removed from power by the Shi'ite Malaki government. They seem to be mounting a continuous campaign of car bomb terror around Baghdad to destabilize the Malaki regime but without any strong Sunni militia to follow up their terror. The US has tolerated this activity for a year or more and now suddenly started complaining that the Al Qaeda bunch aren't good followers of Islam. Is this merely some Eid el Fitr gesture by our State Department or merely Secretary Kerry trying to find his way?