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2005-01-09 Iraq-Jordan

Iraqi Sunnis to abandon boycott in return for timetable on US withdrawl

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Posted by Dan Darling 2005-01-09 1:11:40 PM|| || Front Page|| [4 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 If y'all would stop blowing stuff up, we could leave tomorrow. It's not like we don't have better things to do.

Posted by SteveS 2005-01-09 2:33:05 PM|| 2005-01-09 2:33:05 PM|| Front Page Top

#2 Fred, are you sure that's not Anthony Quinn in that photo? Thought he died a few years ago, but maybe he just went under cover. Zorba al Tekrit?

Posted by Tom 2005-01-09 2:45:27 PM|| 2005-01-09 2:45:27 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 Clue to Association of Muslim Scholars - Sunni Branch: You stupid bunch of friggin idiots. If you would take care of the sunni-allan-worshipers killing other sunnis in your own friggin neighborhoods we would be gone in less than 2 years.

Posted by anymouse 2005-01-09 5:26:05 PM|| 2005-01-09 5:26:05 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 I think the AoMS has a lot more to worry about right now than the US leaving. For example, just about 4/5ths of the country wouldn't mind it a whole lot if they went toes up. And since their Baathist friends aren't likely to return to power any time soon, they had better start learning the Syrian dialect in a hurry.

Posted by Anonymoose 2005-01-09 5:26:07 PM|| 2005-01-09 5:26:07 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 I smell desperation. Things in Iraq must be going better than we're being led to believe. Bring on the elections!

Posted by lex 2005-01-09 5:33:34 PM|| 2005-01-09 5:33:34 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 These guys don't give a shit about Iraq. If U.S. forces were to leave early, these Sunni idiots would probably plunge the country into a civil war in a bid to regain what they lost with Hussein's removal.

Posted by Bomb-a-rama 2005-01-09 6:24:53 PM|| 2005-01-09 6:24:53 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 Bomb...Civil War would mean the Earth would see the extinction of another species: the sunni muslim from iraq.

Posted by anymouse 2005-01-09 7:43:28 PM|| 2005-01-09 7:43:28 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 Wonder if they realialize that Shia/Kurds have in store for them after US/coalition withdraws?

Posted by gromgorru 2005-01-09 8:13:31 PM|| 2005-01-09 8:13:31 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 Or maybe before. Feb 1 it's a much more Iraqi show. How it plays depends on who votes. If I were the Shia and Kurds, I'd get even while the Amis are there to cover my back with Syria and Iran.

Posted by Mrs. Davis 2005-01-09 8:17:56 PM|| 2005-01-09 8:17:56 PM|| Front Page Top

#10 I strongly doubt Dubya will stop the elections - the only thing the Sunnis will accomplish is their reduced power in the new democratic Government from the onset.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2005-01-09 9:06:23 PM|| [http://n/a] 2005-01-09 9:06:23 PM|| Front Page Top

#11 I've got a better idea - let the ~~Baathists~~Sunnis leave and go live with their soulmates in Syria.

It would get them away from the Shias & Kurds before payback really starts, and concentrate them with their buddies for our next "project."

It's a win-win all around! :-D

Posted by Barbara Skolaut 2005-01-09 10:29:36 PM|| 2005-01-09 10:29:36 PM|| Front Page Top

#12 Iraqâs most influential Sunni group will abandon its call for a boycott of Jan. 30 elections if the United States gives a timetable for withdrawing multinational forces ...

Blackmail doesn't work when the only one being threatened is the blackmailer. It's such fun watching morons screw themselves. Too bad so many innocent people are being killed in the process.

Obviously, the Iraqi elections will immediately be challenged by those who didn't even participate. Now, where's my femto-violin?

Posted by Zenster 2005-01-09 10:40:32 PM|| 2005-01-09 10:40:32 PM|| Front Page Top

#13 Hmm... they want a guarantee on US withdrawal from the UN? Maybe this wouldn't be so bad after all.

(Consider, if you will, just how good UN guarantees have been in the past.)

Posted by Steven Den Beste 2005-01-09 10:47:05 PM|| [http://denbeste.nu/Chizumatic/] 2005-01-09 10:47:05 PM|| Front Page Top

#14 There's a scene in Blazing Saddles that matches the current situation perfectly.

Posted by Phil Fraering 2005-01-09 11:47:51 PM|| [http://newsfromthefridge.typepad.com] 2005-01-09 11:47:51 PM|| Front Page Top

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