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2007-01-15 Iraq

Jordan's king: Sunnis should have say in new Iraq

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Posted by Fred 2007-01-15 00:00|| || Front Page|| [3 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Your Majesty, two points: you said something about the Palestinians, uh, what was it? uh, never mind, and No. 2, Iraqi Sunnis have ripped themselves out of their country's social fabric, and further blackened their history of criminal behavior towards their countrymen, through their tolerance of and participation in vicious barbaric acts both before and after liberation. You've got most of their money, all of their doctors, and many of the rest of them living in Amman already. We feel your pain. Deal with it.

Posted by Verlaine 2007-01-15 02:15|| 2007-01-15 02:15|| Front Page Top

#2 And what they're going to say is "It hurts! It hurts!"

Posted by gromgoru 2007-01-15 03:29|| 2007-01-15 03:29|| Front Page Top

#3 that Washington must "actively push" for reviving Israeli-Palestinian peace efforts

Harder to "revive" than a rusty, junkyard Harley Ab, you know the deal.

Posted by Besoeker 2007-01-15 04:21|| 2007-01-15 04:21|| Front Page Top

#4 They got the vote. That's all the say I get in the US.

Posted by Jackal">Jackal 2007-01-15 07:21|| http://home.earthlink.net/~sleepyjackal/index.html]">[http://home.earthlink.net/~sleepyjackal/index.html] 2007-01-15 07:21|| Front Page Top

#5 "Must"? That American university education he got some years ago clearly has gone to his head.

Posted by trailing wife 2007-01-15 09:54|| 2007-01-15 09:54|| Front Page Top

#6 There are far more flagelants and moonbat martyrs among Shiites, than are there Sunni be-headers. A single mililtary move against the parasitic Ayatollahs, would cause Iranians to topple those cockroaches in human form.

Remember: the US has never had good relations with a Shiite clerical regime, whereas Sunnis relations have been at least tolerable and economically beneficial.

Posted by Sneaze Shaiting3550 2007-01-15 11:05|| 2007-01-15 11:05|| Front Page Top

#7 "Any political process that doesn't ensure the participation of all segments of Iraqi society will fail"

They can't seem to grasp the concept of equality but that is exactly what they need to achieve any peace in the region.

Posted by Danielle 2007-01-15 11:10|| 2007-01-15 11:10|| Front Page Top

#8 Sorry, Sneaze, no sale on the Sunnis - esp. in Iraq. Without their insane murderous behavior - before and after liberation - you don't have anything like today's situation.

It has nothing to do with Sunnis vs. Shia, anyway. Different groups of people in different places and different times will be either cooperative, hostile, share interests or not share interests. We have friends and enemies on both sides of that divide.

Sunni Arab extremism, racism, arrogance, cluelessness, and psycho dysfunction have to be fought just as hard as the much more limited, newer, and shallower brand of Shi'ite craziness.

"Crush Sunnis First" - any other approach gets, uh, exactly what we've been getting, which the WH finally, and belatedly, decided wasn't what we're paying for.

Posted by Verlaine 2007-01-15 14:03|| 2007-01-15 14:03|| Front Page Top

#9 little man, big ideas

Posted by Captain America 2007-01-15 14:25|| 2007-01-15 14:25|| Front Page Top

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