This is a news article about Iraq’s vice president. He has been sentenced to death because he and his son have been convicted of running a death squad. His arrest has sparked a “political crisis in Iraq” and Sunni insurgents linked to al-Qaeda have been linked to recent violence in response to the trial. When a warrant was issued for Tariq al-Hashemi’s, the vice president, arrest in December, Hashemi fled. He and his son were found and sentenced to death by hanging on Sunday. Since the US pulled troops out of Iraq last year, violence has been escalating in the country, and on Sunday there were car bombs, raids, bomb explosions, and other attacks. Sunnis are thought to be responsible for the violence. They are angered because they feel like since Hussein, who was a Sunni, came out of office, there has been too much Shia influence in the country.
I find it appaling that the Iraqi leader was even running a death squad. I think that the United States definitely had a part in choosing the vice president, which means that he shouldn’t behave like the leader that the United States kicked out of office. Honestly, I find the Sunni and Shia fued exhausting. Not so much that they are still feuding, but that the violence has worsened since the United States left Iraq. It seems like the country is just going back to to the state that it was in before the start of the war; which makes it seem that the Iraq war was absolutely pointless. I don’t understand though why the Sunnis are reacting so severely to the sentence of the vice president. I don’t understand the correlation between the two except for maybe the fact that the vice president was acting like Sadam Hussein. (301)
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