I’m stunned at Iran’s apparent willingness to keep things quiet. Surely, at least at the margins, they have enough resources in Iraq to cause at least some local troubles.

Waiting Bush out? Trying to help Obama?

Cui bono?

How about “they got beaten”. Iran isn’t some endless source of money, material and power. They are 1/7th our size and have plenty of restive minorities, economic problems and such. They have strained their own resources much harder than we have – they need to refit right now after all the people of theirs that we caught or killed, and the money they lost in equipment, weapons, direct financing of people who are now dead, fled or deserted.

Maybe we should offer him a bribe?

- The Cat

Why is this Schwein still breathing?

Entelechy on July 27, 2008 at 4:25 PM

Because he is living in Qom, Iran. He hasn’t set foot in Iraq in over a year.

The Taliban was suppose to the the best example of a sunni Islamic state (only the Shiia Iran has done that before)

I bet Saudi Arabia would be surprised to hear that….

Turkey represents a threat to the notion of total control of a society based on Islam.

Really? See: Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan… Somalia, Bosnia, etc. etc.

Well the hicks in Uzbekistan are a little over the edge, but still no Sharia…

The Iraqi Army is painting over it.

according to nearly the same report in the british tomesonline

someone wrote “and we’ll be waiting”

still not bad for the NYT

Sadr’s power receding

So are his gums.

Oy.

No dental floss in Iraq, I suppose.

NYT: Sadr’s power receding

I wonder who is Sadr’s dentist? WHEWWW!

If the government in Baghdad gets undermined by a lack of support from the US, the Iraqi Army could lose its edge and the Mahdis could stage a comeback.

unless come December

NYT: Sadr’s power receding

I don’t know, he still has to power to make me gag every time I see him.

Interesting that India and Turkey are the lastest locations the islamonutjobs have decided to ’strike’.

Limerick on July 27, 2008 at 4:23 PM

Reasons for both. India is currently in a nuke deal with the US. India and Pakistan have fought wars before. India is the biggest threat to Pakistan and with its Muslim minority and the Kashmir conflict and open wound for the pakistani Jihadists.

Turkey is facing a secular vs Islamic debate. The very notion that Islam existing in secular society is completely unacceptible to the very core of Islamic fundamentalist thinking. The Taliban was suppose to the the best example of a sunni Islamic state (only the Shiia Iran has done that before) Turkey represents a threat to the notion of totla control of a society based on Islam.

That is why freedom and Islam have conflicts. Because Islam requires “Submission” not competition.

Most of the Mahdis have melted away, and could come back at any time.

momentarily melted into the shadows with hOpe to believe in “yes we can” obamarx, bringer of change.

Imagine the Mahdis linking up with Pelosi and Reid via Obama, pulling out US troops because Iraq belongs to Iraqis, Mahdis and all. It’s so much easier to keep the US down if the US troops are out of the way of corrupt oil sales that Iraq makes with everyone EXCEPT the USA.

Tear down these prison walls, al-Maliki! No segregation allowed! Criminals and mobsters live side by side with victims of their terrorism, politicians and security forces. Equality begins with the terrorist amongst us.–BHO Weltkaiser ‘08

…McCain has no major issue to distinguish himself with the Messiah.

justinok on July 27, 2008 at 5:03 PM

He has THE other major issue…energy.

McCain has been moving left on most other issues. 100 bucks Obama will win the election in a landslide.

Waiting Bush out? Trying to help Obama?

Cui bono?

The militia that was once the biggest defender of poor Shiites in Iraq, the Mahdi Army…

Yeesh…the NYT can’t help but shed a tear for them, can they?

The Mahdis transformed years ago into organized crime. They ran protection rackets and controlled the distribution of essentials such as heating oil.

Stateside we have the DNC organized exactly so!

It would be interesting to know what Iraq will be like one year from now.

It would be more interesting to know what the US will be like a year from now.

As Trotsky once said, if one wanted to live a quiet life one picked the wrong century in which to be born.

Needs updating, but you get the idea.

Interesting that India and Turkey are the lastest locations the islamonutjobs have decided to ’strike’.

Limerick on July 27, 2008 at 4:23 PM

Interesting but not surprising. All those brave “lions” of islam have to run somewhere when they flee Iraq. I expect we will see these same critters showing up elsewhere to do their deeds.