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2008-03-16 Iraq

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Posted by 2008-03-16 01:02|| || Front Page|| [2 views ] Top
File under: Iraqi Baath Party

#1 Remember when Chinese troops made an incursion into Vietnam in the late seventies to "teach Vietnam a lesson"? Communist killing communist left me cold then; muslim killing muslim leaves me even colder now.

Posted by McZoid 2008-03-16 02:57|| 2008-03-16 02:57|| Front Page Top

#2 No, absolutely not. Halabja was Saddam using poison gas on civilians. Not the same at all as M v M killing. This was genocide, pure and simple, and all the reason a just world would need to remove and kill Saddam.

Posted by Steve White">Steve White 2008-03-16 03:08|| 2008-03-16 03:08|| Front Page Top

#3 SW:

I can't think of Middle East problems in human terms. We are no longer liberating anyone in Iraq; we are indulging Iranian armament of Shiites while we arm the As-Sahwah Sunni groups and pay former terrorists $250 a month to keep Wahabis out of Iraq. We can't solve that 1400 year old sectarian war, so we are working at a balance of power, while we leverage both sides to sanction US bases situated outside of the cities, and that exists with the sole purpose of ensuring that the Ayatollahs do not control Iraqi oil. The President will secure permanent basing treaties before the end of his term. Iraqis won't have even a semblance of peace until a status quo ante is reached. And that status quo means: Sunnis have been ethnically cleansed out of over a dozen Baghdad neighborhoods. Again, it was in US strategic interests to indulge that otherwise inhumanitarian act. According to the Koran, at the "end of days" Muslims will slaughter Muslims. We can't stop it. Islam is a mutual genocide scheme. US soldiers aren't bodyguards for wannabe murderers.

Posted by McZoid 2008-03-16 08:25|| 2008-03-16 08:25|| Front Page Top

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