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2006-07-21 Iraq

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Posted by Fred 2006-07-21 00:00|| || Front Page|| [3 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Yea, perhaps putting the competing forces in the Roman Coliseum theater of death. Let the lions have the remains

Posted by Captain America 2006-07-21 00:16|| 2006-07-21 00:16|| Front Page Top

#2 Sistani may not be everything we could hope for but at least he was OK on this issue.

Obviously, 50k police and soldiers can't handle the job if they face both Sunni and Shia terror gangs (partly because some of the police are part time terrorists).

You would think that, at some point, the supply of terrorists would shrink simply because they are killing each other. I also thought that by now the supply of high power explosives would be somewhat constrained.

Posted by mhw 2006-07-21 10:51|| http://hypocrisy-incorporated.blogspot.com/]">[http://hypocrisy-incorporated.blogspot.com/] 2006-07-21 10:51|| Front Page Top

#3 i was wondering when he would speak out. Im not sure how much influence he has on the street - the continued violence has left plenty bad feeling among the Shiites of Baghdad, and I dont know that they will listen to Sistani any more. OTOH maybe this gives more support to Maliki and others Shiite pols (whose base is the whole Shiite south, not just Baghdad) to push harder against Sadr. We HAVE seen some arrests of Mahdi army figures, though not of Sadr himself.

And yeah, when we look at the civilian death numbers (which ARE really bad) we should take into account that now thats deaths going both ways - the Sunni insurgency may well be weakening, but thats offset by more deaths at the hands of the Sadrists.

Posted by liberalhawk 2006-07-21 12:17|| 2006-07-21 12:17|| Front Page Top

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