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2005-12-16 Iraq

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Posted by Dan Darling 2005-12-16 00:22|| || Front Page|| [2 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 A visit to their website indicates all that the International Crisis Group does is issue press releases that bring a new meaning to the word 'banal'. Their 'analysis' wouldn't good enough to cut it at the Burg nor most other places in the blogosphere.

Iraq is now a democracy and Sunni's demands don't need to be addressed, nor does the constitution need to be changed. All they can expect in a democracy is to be treated as equals and that means equal before the law.

Sunnis aint special any more in Iraq.

Posted by phil_b">phil_b 2005-12-16 02:35|| http://autonomousoperation.blogspot.com/]">[http://autonomousoperation.blogspot.com/] 2005-12-16 02:35|| Front Page Top

#2 Oooh, justified snobbery -- it makes me feel all warm inside! But then, if Rantburgers didn't have higher standards, we would still be reading the New York Times. ;-)

Posted by trailing wife 2005-12-16 07:08|| 2005-12-16 07:08|| Front Page Top

#3 Sunnis need to get it through their thick-ass skulls, they are a minority. Life is going to be very disappointing for a long time to come. NO more running amok. As for the asswads at reuters, the U.S. constitution took from July 4, 1776 to June 21,1788 to get ratified. So they can stick it up their ass it they don't "bloody well" like it.

Posted by Glomoting Slavins9400 2005-12-16 09:37|| 2005-12-16 09:37|| Front Page Top

#4 I'm routing for the Iraqis but realistically this is still a work in progress.

The Islamists and Baathists will be killing as many people as they can, the militia will be killing people too and the liberals and international press will be hyping every setback and downplaying every achievement.

Posted by mhw 2005-12-16 11:36|| 2005-12-16 11:36|| Front Page Top

#5 "â¦completing a U.S. timetable to install democracyâ¦"

The US administration, from the beginning, has pushed to meet the mutually agreed upon timeframe but make no mistake the process has always been âcondition basedâ not âtime basedâ. To characterize the installation of the Iraqi government in terms of a âtimetableâ is an attempt to lend credence for setting a timetable for troop withdrawal.

"Having a timetable for the transfer of sovereignty and having a timetable for Iraqi elections have resulted in real political and strategic advantages for the U.S. Having a timetable for the withdrawal of troops should be no different."
Senator Russ Feingold (D-WI)

Posted by DepotGuy 2005-12-16 15:08|| 2005-12-16 15:08|| Front Page Top

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