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2005-09-18 Iraq-Jordan

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Posted by Dan Darling 2005-09-18 00:01|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 The sooner my generational cohorts are dead the better off this country will be.

Posted by Shipman 2005-09-18 08:31|| 2005-09-18 08:31|| Front Page Top

#2 What is happening is the MSM is portraying a relative increase as an absolute increase. If we go from 5 Iraqi recruits and 5 foreign recruits to 2 Iraqi recruits and 1 foreign recruit then it is factually true that Iraqi participation has increased by 100%.

Posted by phil_b 2005-09-18 08:45|| 2005-09-18 08:45|| Front Page Top

#3 Sunni cancer needs radiation therapy at it's source. Saudi Arabia.

Only problem is the ideology has travelled past the lymph nodes in its most agressive form.

We're f**ked.

Posted by anon1 2005-09-18 08:53|| 2005-09-18 08:53|| Front Page Top

#4 I'm not convinced we're f*cked. However, there is a definite need for serious intervention globally.

Posted by lotp 2005-09-18 09:30|| 2005-09-18 09:30|| Front Page Top

#5 Most of Iran is Shia, so this civil war is just inflaming bigotries. I'm convinced Zawarhiri and Saad Bin Laden are in Iran, with the blessing of the mullahs. I think this latest rash of sectarian violence is influenced more by former Baathists who fled to Syria. They've also been tying everything to the Palestinian cause, gaining Sunni recruits through Hamas and Hezbollah. What ever happened to the red-haired Assyrian guy, al-Douri or something? My gut says everyone is focused on Zarqawi while missing the real power. No one has seen Imad Mugniyeh either. As for civil war, they will be unified when the Golden Imam arises to rule his glorious Islamic Caliphate in the true form of Islam, setting the stage for one far more dangerous than Hitler. Maybe the best foreign policy would be to let them kill one another so we don't have to.

Posted by Danielle 2005-09-18 10:45|| 2005-09-18 10:45|| Front Page Top

#6 Woohoo a new group of of lies printed by Al-Qaeda's British News outlet.

Posted by BillH 2005-09-18 17:22|| 2005-09-18 17:22|| Front Page Top

#7 I think this civil war angle is overdone. I don't think Zarqawi wants civil war, because from a numbers standpoint, the Sunni Arabs will lose - they are outnumbered 4 to 1 and outspent big time because the Iraqi government has access to tens of billions of dollars in oil revenue. What Zarqawi wants is what every Mafia chieftain wants - to kill enough of anyone who opposes him that the rest give up and cry uncle. It's not that complicated. He wants total fear among his opponents accompanied by total submission. Could his tactics work?

Well - the Colombian drug gangs owned the government for some period of time. The Italian crime gangs owned the government for some period of time. Over time however, the government's edge in manpower and money will begin to tell. Government troops and police are starting to kill off mullahs and terror organizers and financiers without the benefit of a trial. And Iraq's tens of billions of dollars of oil revenue means that there is no shortage of money to pay pensions for the survivors of security men killed in action or hire replacements for them.

Posted by Zhang Fei 2005-09-18 19:12|| http://timurileng.blogspot.com]">[http://timurileng.blogspot.com] 2005-09-18 19:12|| Front Page Top

#8 ZF: The Italian crime gangs owned the government for some period of time.

The Italian government eventually ratcheted up the punishments (well short of the death penalty, which doesn't exist in Italy), and continued to prosecute mafiosi, until they became a spent force. In the interim, hundreds of magistrates and police officers were assassinated.

Posted by Zhang Fei 2005-09-18 19:14|| http://timurileng.blogspot.com]">[http://timurileng.blogspot.com] 2005-09-18 19:14|| Front Page Top

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