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2006-04-07 Iraq
Shi'ites may turn to Sistani to force Jafaari out
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Posted by Dan Darling 2006-04-07 01:20|| || Front Page|| [11133 views since 2007-05-07]  Top

#1 That Sistani hasn't already acted against Jaafari and Jabr is telling. They're Qom moles. It's no secret Jaafari's less than worthless - Sistani should've acted long ago. It's now blindingly clear that Jabr's a Mullah tool, as well.

Sistani knows this. Knew this. Knows of more such agents. And yet his megaholiness sits on his hands. Gosh, wonder why. Shia twits. Sunni twits. Baathist twits. Foreign Caliphatist twits. Fucking Arabs. Fucking Islam. Disgusting worthless asshole scum the lot of em. Can't change their fucking diapers without help and don't have the simple sense to do it in the first place.

It must really suck like a bilge pump to have to make nice with creatures whose IQ is less than your shoe size, Condi. What a terrible job.
Posted by Criger Shaling7432 2006-04-07 05:03||   2006-04-07 05:03|| Front Page Top

#2 I may try to cure my nicotine addiction with alcohol.
Posted by gromgoru 2006-04-07 09:02||   2006-04-07 09:02|| Front Page Top

#3 "Al-Sistani's aides have said the Iranian-born cleric has become frustrated with the performance of Shiite religious parties, which dominate the outgoing government, and with the rising tensions between Shiites and Sunnis."

Maybe the Grand Ayatollah has figured out that squeezing all the Shiite parties together was a mistake? I think his fear was that if the Shiite parties went their own way, the only way to stop Sadr would be a coalition of anti-Sadr shia with the sunnis, seculars and Kurds. And he didnt want to rely on Sunnis and seculars. Esp Sunnis. So the UIA would give the Shia a dominant role, and force Sadr to support Sistanis people. Instead the UIA is being used by Sadr to subordinate Sistanis people to Jaafari, who has become Sadrs man. Sadr has checked Sistani, using Sistanis own game. The only way out is to give up on Shia unity, break the UIA, and accept the Sunni-secular-Kurd alliance.

Posted by liberalhawk 2006-04-07 09:53||   2006-04-07 09:53|| Front Page Top

#4 This reminds me of something, but I can't quite remember.
Posted by Perfesser 2006-04-07 10:01||   2006-04-07 10:01|| Front Page Top

#5 Horrible precedent.
Posted by mojo">mojo  2006-04-07 10:07||   2006-04-07 10:07|| Front Page Top

#6 Oh, the sweet irony. He refused to take care of Tater in the beginning, now his tribe is against him and he needs Iraqis - people who want to modernize - for help.

Democracy makes strange bedfellows. Sistani's an old dog having to learn new tricks.
Posted by anonymous2u 2006-04-07 10:32||   2006-04-07 10:32|| Front Page Top

#7 Maybe Jaafari will cave, but Sadr'll refuse the offer. The Shiite martyr thingie. If we were dealing with Sicilians, this would be helluva lot easier.
Posted by liberalhawk 2006-04-07 10:33||   2006-04-07 10:33|| Front Page Top

#8 Oh, youre thinking of Sistani as the undertaker. And us as the Don. Hmmm. Diff is, Don Corleone can REALLY offer protection. While Al Khoie's blood lies unavenged. THAT was the first big disaster of the occupation.
Posted by liberalhawk 2006-04-07 10:35||   2006-04-07 10:35|| Front Page Top

#9 If youre the Don, and you want respect, you GOTTA protect anyone who gives you homage. Whatever it takes. We aint the Don of Iraq. No one is, right now.
Posted by liberalhawk 2006-04-07 10:37||   2006-04-07 10:37|| Front Page Top

#10 If we were the Don, we would have responded to our enemies' targeting of families by targeting families ourselves.

You can't say we're incompetent tribal dictators on one hand and then expect us to follow liberal-democracy (in the civilizational rather than political sense) rules of conduct in the other.

The Don didn't come from constitutional democracy, he came from a "Blood washes Blood" society.
Posted by Phil 2006-04-07 10:45||   2006-04-07 10:45|| Front Page Top

#11 And remember where the Mafia first took hold in the US: Post-reconstruction, Klan-run New Orleans.
Posted by Phil 2006-04-07 10:52||   2006-04-07 10:52|| Front Page Top

#12 Actually, I think of Sistani as the Don. Who are we? I guess the Capos.
Posted by Perfesser 2006-04-07 13:02||   2006-04-07 13:02|| Front Page Top

#13 In a sense Tater has proved useful in that he has scared a lot of Iraqis into abandoning their purely secularist agenda.

Now if he would only die tragically (maybe choking while eating a piece of lamb).
Posted by mhw 2006-04-07 14:38||   2006-04-07 14:38|| Front Page Top

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