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2003-08-30 Iraq

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Posted by Fred Pruitt 2003-08-30 01:19|| || Front Page|| [3 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Let me see,
U.N. refuses U.S.secruity and gets blown-up,
The Shia's have screaming fits about the presense of U.S. troops in thier Holy City(find me a city,town,village,hamlet,outhouse in Islam that is not holy)and thier most holy site,the Ali Mosque,gets blown-up.
And it is all America's fault for not provideing enough security.
What fools be these?

Posted by raptor 2003-8-30 7:39:04 AM|| 2003-8-30 7:39:04 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 "We will stage an uprising."

Well you can start at the Syrian border and knock off anybody coming in without a valid visa. Then you can move to the Saudi border and knock off anybody coming in to setup "religious" schools. Then you can move east to the Iranian border and... well, just shoot anybody with a black hat. That should do it. Come back to the center for resupply, and start again.

Posted by Raphael 2003-8-30 8:19:01 AM|| 2003-8-30 8:19:01 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 Fox News says the Iraqi police have arrested...wait for it...2 Soddys with ties to Al-Qaeda! Reporter in Najaf says the Shiites on the street are skeptical

Posted by Frank G 2003-8-30 9:06:09 AM|| 2003-8-30 9:06:09 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 Here's the Fox post - based on an AP report

Posted by Frank G 2003-8-30 9:10:01 AM|| 2003-8-30 9:10:01 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 Another one of the "holy sites" gets blown up? The Prophet wasn't around to protect it?
Well, it is a big vacation week...

Posted by tu3031 2003-8-30 10:39:13 AM|| 2003-8-30 10:39:13 AM|| Front Page Top

#6 Gen Sanchez should look into putting the Iraqi tribesmen on border patrol. And the GI's can coordinate them. The borders are like a sieve. If Sanchez doesn't use the tribesmen, the bad guys will keep coming in, and it'll never end. Enough with the sieve-like thing!

Posted by button 2003-8-30 11:51:44 AM|| 2003-8-30 11:51:44 AM|| Front Page Top

#7 "If the Americans don't secure our sites anything is possible. We will stage an uprising."...and if that don't work, we'll hold our breath til we're blue in the face.

Yeah, foreign troops right outside the mosque doing crowd control. Yeah, I can just see it. Najafers: Mourn your dead and help in capturing the perps and turn in foreign moujahideen. You won't get far without our help, nor we, without yours. Are you capable of it, or will you resort to being "a little people"? - Peter O'Toole

Posted by michael 2003-8-30 11:07:46 PM|| 2003-8-30 11:07:46 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 The borders are like a sieve. If Sanchez doesn't use the tribesmen, the bad guys will keep coming in, and it'll never end. Enough with the sieve-like thing!

I think that's the point. They come in and we kill them. If we block them off, they do things like September 11. Let 'em come.

Posted by Zhang Fei 2003-8-31 1:55:54 AM|| 2003-8-31 1:55:54 AM|| Front Page Top

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