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2008-07-15 Iraq

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Posted by Mizzou Mafia 2008-07-15 00:00|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 Compare wid ALTERNET.org > WITH THE SUDDEN IRAQI DEMAND FOR WITHDRAWAL OF US TROOPS, BUSH HAS LOST THE WAR.

The Islamist priority right now, in the absence of any unilateral US attack and occupation of IRAN, IS TO NUCLEARIZE AND STRATWEAPONIZE AMAP ASAP. AFRICA TO ASIA > HOTBED OF THIRD WORLD INDIGENOUS NUCLEARIZATION DRIVES - even iff the USA should indeed successfully attack and occupy Iran per se, Radical Islam believes they would still stand a potent chance of acquiring NUCTECHS VIA NUCLEARIZING AFRICAN-ASIAN NATIONS, BE THEY ALLIED ENEMY or NEUTRAL vv USA + WOT.

Methinks its more correct to say IRAQ is in a TEMPORARY LULL until such time Radical Islam had rebuilt and is ready to wage new insurgencies and destabilizations again, save this time Nuclearized. NOW IS ALSO THE TIME FOR THE PRO-US IRAQI + AFGHAN-PAKI GOVTS TO STRENGTHEN THEMSELVES FOR THE FUTURE NEW ISLAMIST ONSLAUGHT WHICH THEIR MUSLIM POLS KNOW WILL EVENTUALLY COME.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2008-07-15 01:36|| 2008-07-15 01:36|| Front Page Top

#2 And Michael Yon is also right when he says we are not winning in Aghanistan.

Arm the Uzbeks and Tadjiks and let them fight it out with the Pushtuns. It doesn't matter who wins.

Posted by phil_b 2008-07-15 06:22|| 2008-07-15 06:22|| Front Page Top

#3 phil_b,
That's pretty much what we did for years with Iran & Iraq. Works for a while, but has its limitations.

Posted by Menhaden S 2008-07-15 07:35|| 2008-07-15 07:35|| Front Page Top

#4 The Talibunnies took a trimming last summer. What happened in the interim?

Posted by badanov 2008-07-15 08:04|| http://www.freefirezone.org]">[http://www.freefirezone.org] 2008-07-15 08:04|| Front Page Top

#5 What happened in the interim?

They were rebuilt, resupplied and reorganized in NW Pakistan. Probably with the Paki's ISI help.

We have not "Won" yet. We are winning, but there is still tons of work to be done.

Posted by OldSpook 2008-07-15 08:24|| 2008-07-15 08:24|| Front Page Top

#6 It's like the Mexican border for twenty years after the ACW, with 'insurgents' crossing and raiding, all in the face of budget constraints put upon our military by a resurgent and vengeful Donk controlled Congress. Things don't change much, other than the names of the players. Different line up, same game.

Posted by Procopius2k 2008-07-15 09:33|| 2008-07-15 09:33|| Front Page Top

#7 Arm the Uzbeks and Tadjiks and let them fight it out with the Pushtuns. It doesn't matter who wins.

Hear, hear. Muslims will be killing and stealing (on as large a scale as they are allowed) no matter what you [West] do (an inevitable consequence of perceiving life as zero sum game)---might as well limit the damage by redirecting their belligerence inward.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2008-07-15 09:53|| 2008-07-15 09:53|| Front Page Top

#8 Maybe partition.

Another Uzbekistan, another Tadjikistan, a Pastunstan, a Talibanstan.

Perhaps a Kafirstan where Islam wouldn't be allowed.

Posted by mhw">mhw 2008-07-15 10:06|| http://hypocrisy-incorporated.blogspot.com/]">[http://hypocrisy-incorporated.blogspot.com/] 2008-07-15 10:06|| Front Page Top

#9 Another Uzbekistan, another Tadjikistan, a Pastunstan, a Talibanstan.

I vote for Glassastan, as in green, glowing and radioactive.

Posted by Grease Dark Lord of the Algonquins9226 2008-07-15 12:58|| 2008-07-15 12:58|| Front Page Top

#10 We should give them another year, if it doesn't work dump the idea of Democracy in Afghanistan and install the toughest mother from the North to keep a lid on the Pashtun and their poppy fields.

Posted by rjschwarz 2008-07-15 13:08|| 2008-07-15 13:08|| Front Page Top

#11 "I vote for Glassastan"

How about Central Asia Disneystan?

Posted by Woozle Unusosing8053 2008-07-15 17:48|| 2008-07-15 17:48|| Front Page Top

#12 ooooo with Frontier~~Corps~~Land?

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2008-07-15 18:21|| 2008-07-15 18:21|| Front Page Top

#13 ION WAFF.com [paraph] > CUTTING EDGE NEWS - IRAN [IRGC] SECRETLY ORDERS PRIVATE CIVILIAN COMPANIES TO PLAN FOR [Covert]RESUMPTION OF NUCLEAR CENTRIFUGE PRODUCTION [Advanced P2's]???

Posted by JosephMendiola 2008-07-15 19:28|| 2008-07-15 19:28|| Front Page Top

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