Iraqi politician warns of 'river of blood'

[sabra]

http://news.monstersandcritics.com/middleeast/article_1154426.php/Iraqi_politician_warns_of_river_of_blood

Iraqi politician warns of 'river of blood'

Baghdad - The chairman of a Sunni Iraqi party warned on Tuesday that Iraq faced massive bloodshed if the country's rowing political factions failed soon to form a government as a meeting of Shiite politicians ended without a solution to the impasse.

Saleh al-Mutlaq, of the non-sectarian Iraqi Front for National Dialogue, said that 'an Iraqi government should be formed in the next few days, otherwise Iraq will drown in a river of blood.'

Al-Mutlaq was also quoted in the Tuesday issue of the pan-Arab daily al-Sharq al-Awsat as describing the current wrangling among political factions as 'sadism.'

'People are being slaughtered on the street while politicians are busy seeking positions,' he said.

[mike_c]

1. same as it ever was....

People are being slaughtered on the street while politicians are busy seeking positions,' he said.

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

2. Saddam warned about that back in Poppy's day...

...and I'm too damned lazy to Google the actual quote, but anyone who remembers "Operation Desert Storm" remembers Saddam saying that if U.S. soldiers invaded Iraq, "their blood would flow like rivers and the jackals would drink their blood from the rivers and..."