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| Sunni Muslims Carve Out New Role in Iraq |
| 2003-12-25 |
| Severely EFL TIKRIT, Iraq - With Saddam Hussein in captivity, some tribal elders from his old power base are showing greater willingness to work with Iraq’s American occupiers, realizing they must carve out a new political role for the Sunni Muslim minority that long ruled the country. That’s a first step if I ever saw one ... U.S. officers have been meeting every week with the region’s tribal leaders, but Al Nada was the first sheik who openly spoke against Saddam, said Lt. Col. Steven Russell, a U.S. commander in Tikrit. ... ARMY OF STEVE, EVERYONE! (And upcoming, the best line ...) Russell equated the situation to a race for a new future in which "the starting gun has fired, the Kurds and Shiites have started running, but the Sunni runner is standing at the starting line ... imagining he has won." Sounds like both our major political parties ... |
| Posted by:Lu Baihu |
| #4 Some of these people better step up to the plate as having no Sunni participation is the best way to get a civil war in this joint. |
| Posted by: Hiryu 2003-12-25 7:34:01 PM |
| #3 President Russell... hmm.. I like it. Although it does sound like Bill's younger brother who Yes! just got his degree from FAMU at the age of 60. Sorry... it's a good story. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2003-12-25 1:14:42 PM |
| #2 With those quotes, Col. Steve shows why he's the most logical choice to become SecDef after Rummy retires. |
| Posted by: Steve White 2003-12-25 1:13:56 PM |
| #1 "the starting gun has fired, the Kurds and Shiites have started running, but the Sunni runner is standing at the starting line ... imagining he has won." Where does he think up these quotes?! |
| Posted by: Charles 2003-12-25 12:50:52 PM |