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2007-06-25 Iraq

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Posted by trailing wife 2007-06-25 00:00|| || Front Page|| [2 views ] Top
File under: Iraqi Baath Party

#1 ...Saddam once held up a small bottle and boasted that if the contents were unleashed on Washington -- which he intended to see they were -- 100,000 people would die.

That should give Washington enough pause for concern to take time from campaigns and trying to ram immigration down American's throats.

He warns if the U.S. pulls out of Iraq now, it will leave a void that will allow nations such as Iran and Syria to sweep towards Jerusalem, and backed by terrorist groups such as Hamas and Hezbollah, destroy the Jewish state. This, he contends, has been part of a grand scheme of the Arab world for several decades, and now with Iran almost at the point of acquiring nuclear weapons, the scenario becomes terrifying.

Hey, MSM and other misguided liberals, are you paying attention? WMDs didn't exist? They went somewhere now didn't they?

Posted by JohnQC 2007-06-25 06:56|| 2007-06-25 06:56|| Front Page Top

#2 The Iraqi state of Kurdistan, for instance, has now guaranteed freedom of religion, and 1,600 Muslims have already converted to Christianity.
I'd bet you anything that these were forced muslim converts from Christian families that were simply converting back. The Kurds are going to end up with their own country me thinks.

Posted by bigjim-ky 2007-06-25 07:14|| 2007-06-25 07:14|| Front Page Top

#3 Sada's story may be partly true, or mostly true, or totally false. Mainly he's trying to sell books.

Posted by Glenmore">Glenmore 2007-06-25 08:04|| 2007-06-25 08:04|| Front Page Top

#4 I'd bet you anything that these were forced muslim converts from Christian families that were simply converting back.

Not necessarily. And not the most important. The important is that the Kurds have datred to shelve one of the more important tenets of Islam. The hope is that they grow more and more convinced that Islam is not a religion but a tool for Arab dominsation and end rejecting it altogether and go much farther than Mustapha Kemal ever wdared to go.

Posted by JFM">JFM 2007-06-25 08:47|| 2007-06-25 08:47|| Front Page Top

#5 vice-marshal of Saddam Hussein's air force

Hope he is better at writing than at his old job.. cause his pilots left a lot to be desired...

'The F-16s passed me at Osirak'

As we were parking and shutting down, I opened the side window and heard the distinct sound of anti-aircraft fire.

I casually mentioned to the trainee pilot and the navigator that it sounded like an air raid was on near Baghdad.

Would you believe it, in 20 seconds flat I was alone in the cockpit.

Posted by John Frum 2007-06-25 12:46|| 2007-06-25 12:46|| Front Page Top

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