Anything by the left-leaning Yahoo to discredit the elections in Iraq. This is unfortunate I suppose, but the Baathist are reaping what they sowed. Frankly these revenge killings are quite restrained in terms of numbers compared to what we might expect from a population who saw hundreds of thousands of their people murdered by Saddam's Baathists. Saddam created this society of violence. Naturally its effects will continue to echo in a lack of respect for life such as we're seeing in these vigilante killings.
But Yahoo and the US media doesn't want to talk about that, or the much greater and more frequest acts of violence by people they indirectly glorify by calling them "the Resistance" or "insurgents," while refusing to call them what they are: terrorists.
Honestly, now ...
if you knew the Bathist party member who had your family members murdered, or had friends 'vanish' into a mass grave, or perhaps had your daughter raped to ensure your cooperation, would you hesitate to exact a little revenge?
I don't know about you, but I would have my day, and it wouldn't be merciful ....