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By: Iraqi unity, a beautiful sign of success « The Daley Gator

Iraqi unity, a beautiful sign of success « The Daley Gator — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 01:35:08 +0000

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By: byteshredder

byteshredder — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 23:42:42 +0000

Sectarianism fades in Iraq

Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, John Kerry, John Murtha, the DNC, Howard Dean, Holly-weirdos, Code Pinkos, the far left anti-dingies every-thingies, morons for peace etc, have to be wetting their panties, and going absolutely INSANE! It wasn’t suppose turn out this way? Definitely a right wing conspiracy!

By: misterpeasea

misterpeasea — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 18:30:51 +0000

Breaking News—–No Civil War in Iraq—women, children, anti-war left hardest hit.

Rovin on August 4, 2008 at 8:17 AM

Heh. Lots of wailing and gnashing of teeth.

I wonder what Juan Cole has to say about this. He’s an expert on the Middle East, history, and religion, you know.

His last blog post is about how that solar energy invention is big, because solar is the ONLY way out.

Strangely silent on unity in Iraq.

By: BL@KBIRD

BL@KBIRD — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 17:59:32 +0000

We need a united and strong Islam.

By: logis

logis — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 15:46:35 +0000

This kind of unity always springs from free enterprise. Just as Eastern Europe was held in a cultural stasis by the Soviet Union, a lot of these Third World countries have been held back while the free world spent the past century growing up.

Now, hopefully, we’ll keep working to make more dominoes can fall back in the RIGHT direction for a change.

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The Thunder Run — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 15:27:31 +0000

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Mon, 04 Aug 2008 15:23:38 +0000

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By: coldwarrior

coldwarrior — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 15:02:31 +0000

Hey, I’m working as hard as I can!

You and a lot of others who are very much appreciated by this old soldier.

By: major john

major john — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 14:56:17 +0000

The US needs to remain engaged, giving the central government enough strength and leadership in the field

Hey, I’m working as hard as I can!

But seriously, almost all the Iraqis have had a belly full of sectarian violence – it got nobody anywhere, so I think they will almost all avoid it in the future. If the foreigners coming in can be choked off – one of the biggest elements in trying to stir things up that way will be gone.

By: locomotivebreath (dawg) 1901

locomotivebreath (dawg) 1901 — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 13:55:58 +0000

Sectarianism fades in Iraq…

MSM & far left BDS wackjobs hardest hit….

By: BB

BB — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 13:34:38 +0000

It is strange, but it seems to resemble Northern Ireland more and more. Extremist faction A sets off bomb in factions B’s market. In retaliation, B sets off IED on some people who are not involved other than having been born A.

Replace Sunni/Shiite with Protestant/Catholic and the situation seems familiar.

By: locomotivebreath1901

locomotivebreath1901 — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 13:17:06 +0000

This news is so July.

Give us a good ‘high profile politician sordid sex romp yields love child’ story and the msm will be all over it.

Oh. Wait….

By: jimmy the notable

jimmy the notable — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 12:45:06 +0000

I’ve been thinking about a comparison between this and the civil war/ethnic cleansing that took in Rwanda. If you grant that every single reason we went to Iraq was totally wrong, that we shouldn’t have been there in the first place, I could argue that our presence in stabilizing a situation that Saddam and his sons would have continued to make worse, by pitting these sects against each other…sooner or later, this would have erupted into a civil war without American troops to stop it, with Iran and Syria probably feeding it to eventually gain control. There’s no way that Saddam’s government would have ever eased the kind of polarizing that he imposed. So basically, we preemptively, perhaps by 10 or 15 years, avoided what could have been one of the bloodiest civil wars in a long time.

By: Anita

Anita — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 12:23:57 +0000

Iraqis no longer ask, ‘Are you Sunni or Shiite?’

Poor Barakis! They lost a big one!

By: coldwarrior

coldwarrior — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 12:20:04 +0000

When I suggested this was going to happen, over at CQ a good while ago, that the Iraqis were going to look at an Iraqi identity first and foremost as the only way to get past the sectarian violence, I recall being laughed off the podium by quite a number of readers.

Give them time. By the way, are Sunni’s less swarthy than Shias or Kurds? Shias have a special aura about them? Kurds? How does one tell the difference? Secret handshake?

Seems a lot on the Left, and quite a number on the Right, were not all that long ago willing to let the various sects kill each other off and the last one standing would be the winner. Those calls for partitioning of Iraq into three separate states and all that. There’d be no Iraqi identity if that were allowed to happen, and the lethal sectarianism would have grown in leaps and bounds, not diminish as it has. [somebody call Joe Biden and give him a clue. Please.]

By: Rovin

Rovin — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 12:17:11 +0000

Breaking News—–No Civil War in Iraq—women, children, anti-war left hardest hit.