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2008-03-19 Iraq

In Iraq, the Iranians aiding not just Shia groups but Sunni terrorists as well

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Posted by Icerigger 2008-03-19 07:43|| || Front Page|| [7 views ] Top
File under: Iraqi Insurgency

#1 They needed their ass kicking years ago!!!

Posted by Paul 2008-03-19 10:55|| 2008-03-19 10:55|| Front Page Top

#2 Well, other than the obvious, captured from Shias by Sunnis, it makes sense that Iran plays the entire field. We don't hear much about their meddling in Afghanistan, but it is as bad or worse.

Posted by Chuck Simmins">Chuck Simmins 2008-03-19 12:13|| http://northshorejournal.org]">[http://northshorejournal.org] 2008-03-19 12:13|| Front Page Top

#3 Apparently large sections of the population already have figured this out.

However, unfortunately, the neither the Sunni nor Shia elected officials are willing to come out loudly and in public about this situation (maybe fear of assasination, maybe fear of losing bribes). The lack of Iraqi outrage is what allows the MSM to ignore this situation.

Posted by mhw">mhw 2008-03-19 13:17|| http://hypocrisy-incorporated.blogspot.com/]">[http://hypocrisy-incorporated.blogspot.com/] 2008-03-19 13:17|| Front Page Top

#4 A few dozen nukes in the right place would put an end to that. And it REALLY needs to end. Dinnerjacket needs to be strung up from a lamp post with piano wire. The mullocracy needs to be so severely stomped they'll have to import prayer leaders from Canada. Stomp 'em so hard the highest level of technology left will be a wheelbarrow or a two-wheel cart. Then leave 'em that way for a decade or three.

Posted by Old Patriot">Old Patriot 2008-03-19 13:30|| http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/]">[http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/] 2008-03-19 13:30|| Front Page Top

#5 Excuse me, but didn't WAPO say this was a gaffe when McCain said the same thing? (See McCain Gaffe in Jordan in today's WOT Background or WAPO.) How is it a gaffe when McCain says so when the chief U.S. military spokesman in Iraq says so too? And wasn't McCain in Iraq just yesterday? Possibly getting his information directly from the U.S. military guys on the scene? I'm not defending McCain, I'm just feeling a little cognitive dissonance here.

Posted by Ebbang Uluque6305 2008-03-19 15:03|| 2008-03-19 15:03|| Front Page Top

#6 HMMMMMM, unless I'm reading tings wrong, ala KOSOVO the RUSSIANS are now MORE WORRIED THAN BEFORE about A DE FACTO LARGE, EXPANSION-MINDED, MIL-AND NUKES-CAPABLE/PROFICIENT MUSLIM OR ISLAMIST STATE/COOPER OF STATES MANIFESTING ON PORTIONS OF FORMER SOVIET-RUSS COLD WAR TERRITORY.
IOW, RUSS > RADICAL ISLAM SEEMINGLY LOSING IN IRAQ-AFGHANI AZG AMER, BUT SEEMINGLY WINNING AGZ RUSSIA [China?].

Posted by JosephMendiola 2008-03-19 22:46|| 2008-03-19 22:46|| Front Page Top

#7 I don't know if you caught it, Joe, but the Russians apparently paid ransom to get their ship back off of Somalia. That's not exactly the sort of image the Russians have been wanting to project lately.

Posted by Abdominal Snowman 2008-03-19 23:24|| 2008-03-19 23:24|| Front Page Top

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