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2014-07-07 Iraq

Iraq threatens to cut US ties; build closer links with Iran and Russia

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Posted by Pappy 2014-07-07 00:00|| || Front Page|| [8 views ] Top

#1 FYI Iraq was heading towards an accommodation with Nazi Germany until British stomped it out. History repeats itself, but not in detail.

Posted by borgboy 2014-07-07 01:34|| 2014-07-07 01:34|| Front Page Top

#2 It's getting a bit late, we'll just be running along. Enjoy your new friends.

Posted by Besoeker 2014-07-07 01:44|| 2014-07-07 01:44|| Front Page Top

#3 There seems to be alot of countries that see China and Russia as the top boys on the block thanks to Bambi Obama.

Posted by Thusosh Untervehr8552 2014-07-07 03:19|| 2014-07-07 03:19|| Front Page Top

#4 Great job, Obama. Thanks to you, all the US military deaths during 12 years of brutal fighting will now be transformed into having been for the benefit of Iran.

You certainly brought about "fundamental change in America" - into an impoverished, crumbling, third-world dystopia, with a shriveling military, and a bloated, tyrannical, self-serving government.

And you still have 30 months left in office, to continue your sacking and plundering of what's left.

Posted by Lone Ranger 2014-07-07 03:53|| 2014-07-07 03:53|| Front Page Top

#5 And you still have 30 months left in office

Fundamental transformation, remember?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2014-07-07 06:17|| 2014-07-07 06:17|| Front Page Top

#6 The greater threat may have not been the tyranny of the Shah, Sadat, Saddam, Quadaffi, or even Assad. The far greater threat appears to be a blind, religious ideology. Unfortunately, we tend to side with the greater of the evils.

Posted by Besoeker 2014-07-07 06:51|| 2014-07-07 06:51|| Front Page Top

#7 I was looking up Salifism which is a major threat to the West and couldnt believe the amount of salifists in Qatar 47% and UAE 45% of the populations there!.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salafi

Is the UAE,Qatar and Saudis friends or foes of the West?Qatar and UAE are never attacked because they are funding along with Saudi and Kuwait of Salafi jihad worldwide!

Posted by Paul D 2014-07-07 07:21|| 2014-07-07 07:21|| Front Page Top

Few here need a visual, but it seemed appropriate.

Posted by Besoeker 2014-07-07 07:27|| 2014-07-07 07:27|| Front Page Top

#9 Is the UAE,Qatar and Saudis friends or foes of the West?

Foes, of course. Now that the U.S. is world's top producer of oil and natural gas -- and many other nations including Britain, France, Germany, and China (!!) ramp up their own fracking production -- the previous deference to the Arab oil producers necessary to keep the world economy going will become considerably less necessary.

And Saudi Arabia won't even have to run out of oil before the world kicks sand in their face. That they're worried about ISIS on their border looking slant-eyed at the Kaaba -- the very same ISIS they've been funding, along with, no doubt, a good many other taqfiri groups, is added spice. Sometimes karma is absolutely delicious.

Posted by trailing wife 2014-07-07 08:16|| 2014-07-07 08:16|| Front Page Top

#10 The far greater threat appears to be a blind, religious ideology.

add Marxism for all intents and purposes to that descriptive.

Posted by Procopius2k 2014-07-07 08:56|| 2014-07-07 08:56|| Front Page Top

#11 The Quest bookstore of the Philosophic Society includes Marxism as a religion and has books about it in their religion section.
Quest Bookshop

Posted by 3dc 2014-07-07 10:09|| 2014-07-07 10:09|| Front Page Top

#12 Why do we have a base there and protect them? 9-11-01 10-01 mineral meeting 11-01 Qatar World Trade meeting-

#7 I was looking up Salifism which is a major threat to the West and couldnt believe the amount of salifists in Qatar 47% and UAE 45% of the populations there!.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salafi

Is the UAE,Qatar and Saudis friends or foes of the West?Qatar and UAE are never attacked because they are funding along with Saudi and Kuwait of Salafi jihad worldwide!

Who is Phucking Who?

Posted by Flineck Flusock4496 2014-07-07 10:12|| 2014-07-07 10:12|| Front Page Top

#13 ... add Marxism for all intents and purposes to that descriptive.

From the theological point of view, Communism is a heresy of Christianity, making it an heretical religion, something very dangerous, as evidence confirms.

In contrast, from the theological point of view, Fascism is an apostasy of Christianity, making it an apostate religion, also something very dangerous, as evidence confirms.

Fascism and Communism are species of Socialism but their etiological differences are consequential both in themselves and in how their adherents are treated.

The difference between a heresy and an apostasy is slight in the result but significant in the method of and approach to each. Thus, it is a material difference that, in ideal conditions, should be creatively consequential.

For the record, this theologian assesses what Codevilla calls the ruling class as fascist, not communist. Taking it so permits accurate anticipation of its moves and generation of controlling response.

Posted by TopRev 2014-07-07 13:48|| 2014-07-07 13:48|| Front Page Top

#14 Sold!

Posted by Hellfish 2014-07-07 14:16|| 2014-07-07 14:16|| Front Page Top

#15 We should give the Kurds all sorts of toys their neighbors don't like them to have.
Sort of a parting gift to a region of a-holes.

Posted by 3dc 2014-07-07 16:39|| 2014-07-07 16:39|| Front Page Top

#16 From the theological point of view, Communism is a heresy of Christianity, making it an heretical religion, something very dangerous, as evidence confirms.

In contrast, from the theological point of view, Fascism is an apostasy of Christianity, making it an apostate religion, also something very dangerous, as evidence confirms.

Fascinating, TopRev. I would be grateful if you would expand on that a bit, particularly in terms of defining the difference between apostasy and heresy, and in what ways Communism and Fascism are so defined. I am accustomed, for instance, to thinking of Christianity as a Jewish heresy, though I am open to other interpretations. ;-) Be aware that some here are thoughtful, non-rabid atheists, or otherwise not of the Christian persuasion.

Thanking you in advance, etc.

Posted by trailing wife 2014-07-07 22:34|| 2014-07-07 22:34|| Front Page Top

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