Violence empties schools in Iraq

[RamboLiberal]

http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/8402A121-A670-4F5B-8234-580CF360593E.htm

In an ordinary year, schools throughout Iraq would have opened for classes on September 20, but this year many in the country are left empty, as schoolchildren are kept at home by the violence that has plagued Iraq's streets.

In Ramadi, members of armed groups calling themselves the Iraqi resistance distributed fliers asking parents to keep their children at home until all US security checkpoints had been removed from the city.

Mohammed Noor, an Arabic language teacher at one of the secondary schools, told Aljazeera that the fliers also claimed that US military personnel had occupied some of the schools in the past few months and that schoolchildren should refrain from registering for classes "until the people of Ramadi are rid of their presence".

Ramadi is a city virtually under siege as it has been the battleground between armed groups and US forces.

Fierce fighting has kept many of the streets closed to all traffic – in some districts the city looks deserted.

[Erika]

1. What a bush cluster fuck n/t

[Phredicles]

2. But they're still well-painted schools, right?

There goes the librul media, once again not reporting on the good news out of Iraq. :sarcasm:

[RamboLiberal]

3. Oh hell this is the Islamo Facist Media reporting

the propaganda from Iraq. :sarcasm:

[BrotherBuzz]

4. Might be a good time for Laura to slap another coat of paint on them

:sarcasm:

This whole mess is a cluster-fuck ten ways to Tuesday.

[krispos42]

5. well, we know he's not the Education President

This is just more proof...