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2004-02-08 Iraq

Arab League Decries U.S. Actions in Iraq

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Posted by Fred Pruitt 2004-02-08 00:03|| || Front Page|| [2 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 ...inspiring those minority groups in neighboring countries to rise up and demand more power.

Gosh, that'd be ... be ... terrible! Wudn't it?

Let's see:

Republic of Eastern Arabia -- 40 km wide on the Gulf
Hashemite Kingdom of Arabia -- controls the holy sites
Hashemite Kingdom of Central Iraq -- version 2
Federated Republic of Kurdistan -- Iraqi + Iranian + Syrian parts
Republic of Southern Iraq -- friendly Shi'as, wotta change

Posted by Steve White 2004-2-8 12:21:22 AM|| 2004-2-8 12:21:22 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 And most important:

Wahabistan: location central Arabia. Main source of income: export of camel dung

Posted by JFM 2004-2-8 3:36:24 AM|| 2004-2-8 3:36:24 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 The next thing you know, the Turkmen in Iraq will get to vote too!

Posted by Mike Sylwester 2004-2-8 12:27:13 PM|| 2004-2-8 12:27:13 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 LOL! Dr Steve, I certainly like your map of the ME better than the Sykes-Picot confabulation!

JFM's take is spot-on, too, since the US would hold the REA as a permanent protectorate and retain all proceeds therefrom.

I would add to the list a new entity: the RWP, Republic of Western Persia, which would contain all of the oil assets of Iran - situated in a conveniently narrow strip along their western border. This entity would also be a permanent US protectorate.

The proceeds from this entity would be held in trust for the Iranian people. Funds would be released as long as their Gov't was truly a representative democratic Republic - in actuality, not just in name as is the currently fashionable practice in the world. [Hmmm... Is there a dictatorship or thugocracy in the world which doesn't use some form of 'democratic' or 'republic' in it's name?] Absolute constitutional requirements would include 1) the total separation of church and state -- and 2) potent and vigorously enforced laws against discrimination for race, gender, religion, ethnicity, and age - otherwise all funds are withheld. The US would be responsible for any repairs needed to restore the oil industry. The first 6 months proceeds would repay the US for the cost of tipping over the Mad Mullahs and their sycophant thugs. One month's proceeds would be withheld each year for maintenance and upgrades to oil industry plant facilities and equipment. The US would be sole contractor to mine and sole buyer, at market value, of all uranium resources present in Iran and the RWP.

Posted by .com 2004-2-8 12:27:57 PM|| 2004-2-8 12:27:57 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 So the Arab League has their knickers in a twist about what we're doing in the Middle East?

Yesss! We must be doing something right!

Posted by Barbara Skolaut 2004-2-8 1:53:38 PM|| 2004-2-8 1:53:38 PM|| Front Page Top

#6
Wahabistan: location central Arabia. Main source of income: export of camel dung
No! Rashidistan, just to really rub the Sa'udi's faces in the crap. According to Arab News (so it must be true) there are still a few members of clan-Rashid knocking about - maybe it's time they were allowed to get in some Dire Revenge for that unpleasant business back in the 1920s? IMO Rashidistan should have a few public holidays celebrating:
1. The razing of Diriyah (Old Sa'udi capital) to the ground by Mehmet Ali's people,
2. The decapitation of King Abdullah as-Sa'ud by the Ottomans,
3. The capture of Riyadh by the Rashidis & the flight of the Sa'udi clan to Kuwait.
4. The decline & fall of the 3rd Sa'udi Empire?
That should be humilating enough for now, if the bayt as-Sa'ud don't seeth enough just establish a few Shi'a seminaries in Riyadh...

Posted by Dave 2004-2-8 3:29:47 PM|| 2004-2-8 3:29:47 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 Hopefully to go with the agnostic seminaries we'll establish. I'll submit my resume as soon as they're set up. I'd like to teach skepticism.

Posted by Fred 2004-2-8 4:26:35 PM|| 2004-2-8 4:26:35 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 I just love hearing about these people squirm. Tells the status quo is over and things are changing.
Just thank god we have Bush in office. Right man at the right time in history.
Could you imagine a clinton or gore admin when were attacked.

Clinton - lob a few cruise missles into abandoned camps and asking for forgiveness from the corrupt arab leaders.

Gore - probably doing the same except he would run to the supreme court to verify his actions were legal.

Posted by Dan 2004-2-8 4:31:21 PM|| 2004-2-8 4:31:21 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 Fred, the agnostic seminaries'll be a medium/long term thing, for short term 'extreme humiliation' only Shi'a ones will do. True Believers tend to find heretics even more obnoxious than infidels - the Ottomans treated the Qizilbash (Turkish Shi'as) far more brutally than they treated their Christian subjects & ISTR mediaeval Sunni's regarded shedding the blood of Ism'ailis as far more meritorious than killing mere kaffirs.
Re teaching skepticism, you may find a work by the late & lamented Mufti ibn Baz useful in exposing the idiocy of Wahhabi clergymen, IIRC it's called 'Jarayan ash-Shams wa'l Qamar wa sukoun al-'Ard' - The motion of the Sun & the Moon & the Stationarity of the Earth. After all everyone knows what an appalling kaffir Copernicus was...

Posted by Dave 2004-2-8 5:48:14 PM|| 2004-2-8 5:48:14 PM|| Front Page Top

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