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2003-07-30 Iraq
Iraqi resistance takes on a new face
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Posted by Fred Pruitt 2003-07-30 01:20|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07]  Top

#1 but tribal leaders can be bought off, as in afghnistan, and in Iraq under saddam. Foreigners will either be limited number, as the borders come under control, or will be admitted as part of the flypaper strategy. As long as the Shia are quiet (note that first rotating president is leader of Dawa party - Iraq's first Shiite president?) the only real opposition is Baathists and gangsters. Baathists are on the run, and gangsters are ultimately a police problem - probably.
Posted by liberalhawk 2003-7-30 9:05:01 AM||   2003-7-30 9:05:01 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 This is more wishful thinking from the jihadi-loving partisans at Asia Times, which has been wrong in every possible way about both Afghanistan and Iraq. Because they've been wrong for so long, it makes sense for them to roll the dice with even more dire predictions - they might get lucky once in a while and improve their record. These guys are great at predictions, so long as these predictions aren't about the future.*

* OK - I stole that line from some big-time movie mogul - Sam Goldwyn, I believe.
Posted by Zhang Fei  2003-7-30 6:03:05 PM||   2003-7-30 6:03:05 PM|| Front Page Top

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