Iraqis sweep up derelicts

The Iraqi Interior Ministry made huge sweeps through Baghdad today according to the Associated Press;

The Iraqi Interior Ministry has ordered police to round up beggars, vagabonds and mentally disabled people from the streets in Baghdad to prevent them from being used by insurgents as suicide bombers, a spokesman said Tuesday.

The decision came after a series of suicide attacks, including two female bombers who struck pet markets in Baghdad on Feb. 1, killing nearly 100 people. Iraqi and U.S. officials have said the women were mentally disabled and apparently unwitting bombers.

The people detained in the Baghdad sweep will be handed over to governmental institutions that can provide shelter and care for them, Interior Ministry spokesman Maj. Gen. Abdul-Karim Khalaf said. “This will be implemented nationwide starting from today,” he said.

“Militant groups, like al Qaeda in Iraq, have started exploiting these people in a very bad manner to kill innocents as they do not raise suspicions,” Gen. Khalaf said. “These groups are either luring those who desperate for money to help them in their attacks or making use of their poor mental condition to use them as suicide bombers.”

Hmmm, “beggars, vagabonds and mentally disabled people from the streets” sounds like hordes of Democrat suicide voters that the Democrats have been recruiting over the last forty years. I wonder how long it’ll be before some Democrat congressmember complains that the Iraqis are warehousing the poor and mentally ill. That they should let the poor saps make their own decisions about where they live.

I think it’s an exceptionally good sign that Iraq is getting proactive in the war against cold-hearted thugs. It sounds like they’re more than ready to stand on their own two feet – and our troops can come home soon because there’s no need for them to be there.

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