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Iraq

Iraqi Sunnis demand US troop withdrawal

2005-10-27

BAGHDAD: Iraqi Sunni leaders said on Wednesday they would focus on pressing US forces to pull out after failing to block a controversial constitution, hoping a US death toll of 2,000 will encourage Washington to withdraw. âOur political programme will focus more on getting the Americans out of Iraq,â Hussein al-Falluji, a prominent Sunni who took part in talks on the constitution, told Reuters. âOur message to the American administration is clear: get out of Iraq or set a timetable for withdrawal or the resistance will keep slaughtering your soldiers until judgment day.â

The death of an army sergeant pushed the US military death toll in Iraq to the symbolic figure of 2,000 on Tuesday, but President George W Bush warned more sacrifices were needed before US troops could come home.

I think I'm slowly coming around to the opinion that we should abolish their government and rule the place with an iron hand as a colony, but I guess it's too late for that...

Posted by:Fred

#7 until judgement day

Okay - but that may be sooner than you hope ....

Posted by: anon 2005-10-27 13:55

#6 âOur message to the American administration is clear: get out of Iraq or set a timetable for withdrawal or the resistance will keep slaughtering your soldiers until judgment day.â

Have they been talking to John Kerry again?

Posted by: Xbalanke 2005-10-27 13:01

#5 Is there some secret ceremony these guys go through that alters the brain chemistry? It seems that most of them are given to such florid speech patterns that make even the most grandiloquent Foghorn Leghorn of a Senator pale with envy. Their public, and I suspect their private as well, statements are so detached from reality that a diminished mental capacity defense would work. If we took them at their word, we would back off and bomb them until the rubble bounced and then we would nuke them to put a green glass seal on the hole. Some days I think we should.

Posted by: RWV 2005-10-27 08:34

#4 Rafael, that would be cruel and unusual punishment. ;-)

Posted by: twobyfour 2005-10-27 01:28

#3 In fact, let's give them Paul Martin. I insist.

Posted by: Rafael 2005-10-27 01:10

#2 Give them the Canadian model of government: create 3 provinces that together loosely resemble a country, with one province forever locked in a struggle for independence, holding referundums every now and then to determine whether they should secede or not.
But then again...that would require at least a semblance of civility, so forget it. Plus they would never agree on taxation policy.

Posted by: Rafael 2005-10-27 01:08

#1 Heh, I could be convinced, Fred. Regards the Sunnis, well of course they want us to leave, lol. We're the ones who ruined their perfect little dictatorship. I'd prefer they were utterly decimated - and I mean decimated with extreme prejudice. They will never stop, otherwise. I still prefer partition as the answer - this clusterfuck Islamic Federalism, Arab-style, will eventually fall apart because the Sunnis are simply irredeemable. It will not work.

The Kurds should not be shackled to the Arab losers.

Posted by: .com 2005-10-27 00:48

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