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2006-08-19 Iraq

Iraqi govt announces two-day vehicle ban in Baghdad

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Posted by Steve White 2006-08-19 00:00|| || Front Page|| [4 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 You can always gauge how "serious" the Iraqi government is by when, and for how long, they do the obvious first step to reduce the violence: ban vehicles.

If they also shut down the cellphone network, then you'll know they actually intend to stop the violence. Without vehicles and cellphones, it would drop to a dribble.

They don't need such modern technology, anyway. They're just infidel devices to be perverted to Islamic idiocy.

Posted by flyover 2006-08-19 00:29|| 2006-08-19 00:29|| Front Page Top

#2 Agree re: the govt. Not sure about Iraqis as a whole.

Met a couple Univ. of Baghdad professors who were in the States this summer. They teach under the most awful conditions you could imagine, but are determined to help their country improve. Incredible people with a determination to make their country succeed

Not all of Iraq is the insurgency, nor the factional leaders that are jostling to figure out how democracy works. Even though both groups would like to claim they speak for the country as a whole.

Posted by lotp 2006-08-19 07:26|| 2006-08-19 07:26|| Front Page Top

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