Another Reason for a Party

Jazz reported below that Rumsfeld's Pentagon is going to throw a 9-11 party. Well I have to wonder if they are going to throw a party when 2000 Americans have been killed in Iraq. At the present rate that should happen at about the same time if not sooner.
Four Soldiers Killed in Iraqi Insurgent Attack

BAIJI, Iraq, Aug. 10 -- Four U.S. soldiers were killed and six were wounded late Tuesday when insurgents attacked an Army patrol near the northern town of Baiji, the military announced Wednesday.

The killings brought to nine the number of U.S. service members whose deaths have been announced since Saturday while 38 have been killed in the month of August.

And things aren't likely to get better anytime soon. W Joseph Stroupe explains that while there were no Weapons of Mass Destruction in Iraq there were Weapons of Self Destruction which were unleashed by the US invasion. He explains that Saddam put a damper on sectarian tensions and his removal has brought them closer to critical mass.

Iraq is dangerously close to the threshold - the point of no return at which an ideological-sectarian chain reaction is triggered and a rapidly accelerated disintegration along sectarian lines occurs. The blinding flash of Iraq's disintegration will be followed closely by a powerful shockwave radiating outward in all directions, then by an irresistible reverse force that will pull Iraq's neighbors into the vortex. That is the point at which the US begins to suffer an irreversible forfeiture in Iraq.

The political detonation described here, in which Iraq's enriched, fissionable sectarian factions or elements are rammed together forcefully by the current US-driven political process, finally reach critical mass and then detonate to cause Iraq's violent disintegration, is imminent. Consequently, not only has the US finally uncovered Iraq's political WMSD (weapons of mass self-destruction) but it is also, knowingly or unknowingly, racing toward the triggering of a political fission bomb of enormous yield with widespread regional and even global fallout.

Enrichment of ideological-sectarian fissionable elements
To achieve a fission detonation you must start with highly enriched fuel in which the concentration of the radioactive elements is very high in relation to the inert elements.

Several important factors have resulted in the ideological-sectarian elements in Iraq becoming very highly enriched. When the US collapsed the entire Saddam Hussein regime, at one and the same time it removed the damper block that kept Iraq's sectarian factions under control. It removed the force of suppression that had kept Iraq's primary three disparate ideologies from becoming concentrated, potent, radicalized or enriched enough to be politically fissionable. After the removal of Saddam's regime the US replaced it with nothing to act as a suppressor or damper. Therefore, the political-ideological enrichment process, long suppressed, began to flourish out in the open as each of Iraq's sectarian factions dreamed of establishing (or, in the case of Sunnis, reestablishing) itself in a position of freedom and of control over Iraq and its oil-rich regions.