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2003-04-20 Iraq

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Posted by Fred Pruitt 2003-04-20 10:36 am|| || Front Page|| [11130 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 "Sure, Saddam was a torturing, murdering bastard who liked to rape our women in front of us. But he was OURS! Ok, sort of ours, since he tried to kill Shias just for breathing.....At least he didn't try to make us govern ourselves and be responsible!"

Posted by Baba Yaga 2003-04-20 11:32:25|| 2003-04-20 11:32:25|| Front Page Top

#2 Muslim clerics have a lot to learn. They need to be invited to a reception to receive a brief indoctrination about how best to get us to leave in a timely manner. So far, they definitely don't get it. I'd be tempted to send a few of the more vocal ones on temporary holiday to Gitmo.

Posted by Tom 2003-04-20 13:07:42|| 2003-04-20 13:07:42|| Front Page Top

#3 I'm sure some of the crap these guys are spewing is coming directly from Iran. Iran has a serious problem with us being in both Iraq and Afghanistan - it's called "Legitimate fear of being next". Perhaps we should even partially support the Shia muslim imams and their desire to have us leave - by going east... Naaah, they'd complain about that, too.

PERSONAL NOTE TO JOHNNY: Put a second shift on at the rope factory, we may need it.

Posted by Old Patriot 2003-04-20 14:04:43|| 2003-04-20 14:04:43|| Front Page Top

#4 Round up his immediate family and put them all in one of saddams old cells (cramped style please). Give them 15 minutes to decide whether or not they want to fully and without condition support the US occupation.

If its a no, they can stay in jail forever.

Posted by flash91 2003-04-20 18:31:20|| 2003-04-20 18:31:20|| Front Page Top

#5 They need to be invited to a reception to receive a brief indoctrination about how best to get us to leave in a timely manner.

Makes me think of Laos' greatest king, Khun Borom Rajathiraj. He invited all the kinglets of the feuding Tai tribes who were giving him lip for a big peace conference. When he got them all in one place, he just poisoned them.

Posted by Fred 2003-04-20 19:02:24|| 2003-04-20 19:02:24|| Front Page Top

#6 "Hundreds of thousands poured out of mosques and demonstrated against Washingtonâs presence"

Western sources have been giving numbers of 10,000 to 30,000 for Fridays demos. And Wapo indicates it was mainly Sunnis. Al Jazeera is unreliable, but thats a big discrepancy.

Posted by Liberalhawk 2003-04-20 22:54:17|| 2003-04-20 22:54:17|| Front Page Top

#7 At 60% of the pop. they can generate numbers. But they are unable to cooperate except on the grand scale (such as generic hate targets: can you say, "Great Satan?") as they compete with each other for followers. Iran is the key: does it implode before it gains nukes or the means to mfg them? Will we sit calmy by while this occurs? These are the only Shia aspects that are actually worrisome beyond the usual hollering and arm waving.

Posted by PD 2003-04-21 07:13:01|| 2003-04-21 07:13:01|| Front Page Top

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