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2008-04-30 Iraq

Failed Basra Campaign continues to succeed

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Posted by GolfBravoUSMC 2008-04-30 01:32|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top
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#1 Sadr knows that everytime his group sets up a roadblock, US choppers blow them to bits, and his goofs retreat to new roadblocks which...

His promises of victory have proven hollow; he is a has-been. Maybe he should get a real job.

Posted by McZoid 2008-04-30 04:19|| 2008-04-30 04:19|| Front Page Top

#2 Tater should "get a real job."

Organ donor, fertilizer, something like that...

Posted by M. Murcek">M. Murcek 2008-04-30 08:01|| 2008-04-30 08:01|| Front Page Top

#3 More Islam, more misery.

Less Islam, more fun.

Surely by now a lot of Iraqis are thinking this, although probably not out loud.

Posted by mhw 2008-04-30 08:55|| 2008-04-30 08:55|| Front Page Top

#4 A Serb AP stringer came up with the following headline: US Deaths Hit 7-Month High

Posted by Zhang Fei">Zhang Fei 2008-04-30 09:07|| http://timurileng.blogspot.com]">[http://timurileng.blogspot.com] 2008-04-30 09:07|| Front Page Top

#5 mhw -

rather the integration of islam and secular life that muslims have known for centuries - the one that in which the oud and other distinctive instruments thrived, for example is one thing - extremist, puritanical, Islamism, whether of the Wahabi brand, or in this case, the Khomeinist brand means misery.

Its interesting to note that the largest and loudest support for radical islamism is from muslims who havent experienced it. There seems to be nothing quite like living under it to innoculate against it (KSA being an exception, Wahabism representing a native strand of Islam there)

Posted by liberalhawk 2008-04-30 09:21|| 2008-04-30 09:21|| Front Page Top

#6 LH

its true that the secular/Islamic culture has existed for hundreds of years in various countries; in fact once upon a time philosophy and wine thrived pretty much throughout the Islamic world (in fact many Muslim rulers of the past persecuted the Islamists of their day); that integration of secular and Islamic collapsed with the various Islamist (they could be called proto-Wahabiists) of that time

The thing is that the Islamist strain, even when repressed, may still emerge to destroy.

Posted by mhw 2008-04-30 09:58|| 2008-04-30 09:58|| Front Page Top

#7 Its interesting to note that the largest and loudest support for radical islamism is from muslims who havent experienced it.

Funny - the Polish refugees in the neighborhood where I grew up used to say the same thing about communism.

Posted by Pappy 2008-04-30 18:38|| 2008-04-30 18:38|| Front Page Top

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