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2005-01-25 Iraq-Jordan

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Posted by tipper 2005-01-25 10:12:22 AM|| || Front Page|| [2 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Take that, all you soft racists who believe the little brown people prefer not to have to think for themselves! We look to be batting .1000 with this democracy thingy -- first Afghanistan, then the U.S., now Iraq. I can't wait to see what happens next. :-)

Posted by trailing wife 2005-01-25 12:40:25 PM|| 2005-01-25 12:40:25 PM|| Front Page Top

#2 Things like this make me proud to be a citizen of the nation that helped put these people on this path. Now we just need to put the smackdown on those thugs . . .

Posted by The Doctor 2005-01-25 3:12:34 PM|| 2005-01-25 3:12:34 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 But Iraqi officials admit in private that no more than three battalions are reliable.

Evidently the number has tripled since November, I recall only the 36th Commando (Kurdish mainly) was considered reliable.

Posted by Shipman 2005-01-25 3:25:19 PM|| 2005-01-25 3:25:19 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 The International Monetary Fund reported last November that even now the Iraqi economy is performing better than any other in the Arab Middle East, and could become the regionâs engine of growth over the next decade.

Yet another crucial story spiked by the MSM.

Posted by lex 2005-01-25 4:01:58 PM|| 2005-01-25 4:01:58 PM|| Front Page Top

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