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2003-04-03 Iraq

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Posted by Steve 2003-04-03 09:11 am|| || Front Page|| [10 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Hope the goodwill lats. It was really smart to keep from destroying the mosque - wonder how they got it without losses? As was commented yesterday, first the christian church of nativity is desecrated by paleos and then the iraqis turn mosques into foxholes to attract attacks. When will they respect other religions if they don't respect other sects of their own religion?

Posted by Frank G 2003-04-03 09:29:19|| 2003-04-03 09:29:19|| Front Page Top

#2 2000 to 3000 people greeted Lieutenant-Colonel Chris Hughes and his men.
I can't wait to hear how NPR and Beeb will spin this! ha! It won't be easy, they will probably completely ignore it, except to briefly note it is secure after intense fighting at the mosque. I imagine 99% of their future reporting we be limited to whining about how the reconstruction will fail.

Posted by becky 2003-04-03 09:50:30|| 2003-04-03 09:50:30|| Front Page Top

#3 The end of this article notes that there was still enough resistance to "pepper" the convoy with small-arms fire. It is really extraordinary that the Sydney Morning Herald did not make "continued resistance" the main focus of the article, and note the change in circumstance for the Shi'ites only in passing. Might be a fluke.

Posted by Angie Schultz 2003-04-03 10:08:29|| [darkblogules.blogspot.com] 2003-04-03 10:08:29|| Front Page Top

#4 I can't wait to hear how NPR and Beeb will spin this!
Something like this maybe:
"2000 to 3000 people greeted Lieutenant-Colonel Chris Hughes and his men [with AK-47s waving in the air, probably intending to shoot the Colonel and his infidels]"

Posted by RW 2003-04-03 12:36:28|| 2003-04-03 12:36:28|| Front Page Top

#5 This is huge. If we can convince Shiites that we are trustworthy infidels it will have repurcussions in Syria where the Sunni minority is in charge. It would be nice to see an uprising in Syria against the Assad's.

Posted by Yank 2003-04-03 15:05:41|| 2003-04-03 15:05:41|| Front Page Top

#6 actually Syria is the opposite of Iraq - the Baath party there is many Shia - (again the local minority - a pattern in large part because of Baath secularism, but also due to the local make-up of the army officer corps who have dominated the Baath for a while) They put down Sunni uprising in a place called Hamma (sp?) very viciously some years ago - thus Syria's alliance with Iran and tight relationship with Shia in Lebanon.

Posted by liberalhawk 2003-04-03 16:06:28|| 2003-04-03 16:06:28|| Front Page Top

#7 This doesn't sound quite right to me. Has a search of the mosque been done? How was the mosque secured? It seems to me that we are fighting this war with one hand tied behind our backs. If the Iraqis use mosques to fight from they are no longer religious sites and should be treated as any other military objective.

Posted by TJ Jackson 2003-04-04 01:00:42|| 2003-04-04 01:00:42|| Front Page Top

#8 Showing the Shites that"Freedom of Religion"is integral to the American mind-set.Those soldiers are right on in what they did.It won'tchange the minds of the Islamofacist,but will go a long way toward showing the moderates that Americans are not the"Great Satan".

Posted by raptor 2003-04-04 08:42:45|| 2003-04-04 08:42:45|| Front Page Top

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