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2006-04-09 Iraq

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Posted by Dan Darling 2006-04-09 05:15|| || Front Page|| [6 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 The battle for seals fur.

Posted by gromgoru 2006-04-09 05:31|| 2006-04-09 05:31|| Front Page Top

#2 Seals' fur, gromgoru? Sounds fascinating, but a bit obscure for me to understand.

Separately, MSNBC's news amalgamator must be giggling with relief today, at all the article he found (this one came from the Washington Post) describing the disaster we've created over there. It sounds like the good professor who opens the article, however expert with a camera, never had a daughter at risk from the attentions of Uday or Qusay, or a son who got up the nose of Saddam Husseins minions, nor knew anyone who did. How fortunate for him to have been able to remain so happily ignorant.

Some analysts are beginning to compare Baghdad with another Middle Eastern capital that was synonymous with anarchy and bloodshed in the 1970s and '80s. And there's the buried lede, at the end of paragraph five.

Posted by trailing wife 2006-04-09 08:10|| 2006-04-09 08:10|| Front Page Top

#3 Baghdad is the new Beirut? I thought it was the new Saigon, since Iraq was the new Vietnam. I'm sooo confused.

Posted by Steve">Steve 2006-04-09 08:27|| 2006-04-09 08:27|| Front Page Top

#4 Seal's fethers TW.

Posted by gromgoru 2006-04-09 09:11|| 2006-04-09 09:11|| Front Page Top

#5 Iraq the Model claims the Mosque attack earlier this week was ordered by "outside forces" and carried out by Zarqawi, to promote civil war. He also says that Sadr is "picking a fight" with the US to increase sectarian tension and force the outbreak of civil war.

In any situation, whoever controls Baghdad will eventually control the country. Jafaari has to leave, and Sadr and his militia crushed, if any stability is going to be achieved. When we do crush Sadr, it absolutely MUST be a joint effort between the US and the Iraqi army, or we go back to square one and start over. Regardless of who does what, Sadr and his Iranian-backed militia have to be totally crushed before there can be ANY peace in Iraq.

(Prepared at 10:30AM, Sunday, Apr 9, but unable to upload to Rantburg. Will continue to try)

Posted by Old Patriot">Old Patriot 2006-04-09 13:12|| http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/]">[http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/] 2006-04-09 13:12|| Front Page Top

#6 Seal's fethers TW.
Krystal clear now.

Posted by 6 2006-04-09 13:56|| 2006-04-09 13:56|| Front Page Top

#7 grom do UnderGoos

Posted by RD 2006-04-09 14:34|| 2006-04-09 14:34|| Front Page Top

#8 Dealing with Tater is setting the battlefield for Iran also. He and his goons are a primary source of instability.

Posted by Captain America 2006-04-09 15:18|| 2006-04-09 15:18|| Front Page Top

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