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2005-05-17 Iraq-Jordan

Attacks still aimed at triggering Iraqi civil war

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Posted by Dan Darling 2005-05-17 00:54|| || Front Page|| [2 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Interesting. Most of the quotes are from Iraqui government officials.

Posted by Ptah">Ptah 2005-05-17 09:00|| http://www.crusaderwarcollege.org]">[http://www.crusaderwarcollege.org] 2005-05-17 09:00|| Front Page Top

#2 It strikes me that the US forces are being somewhat selective in their attacks. One notes that in Matador militants in some areas were not pursued (to the frustration of the Marines on the line). Substantial efforts have been made since the beginning to entice the various non-AQ 'insurgents' to just back off and join the team.
I suspect the US actually does not want to 'crush' the 'insurgency' - rather, to modify it into a quiescent 'threat' to help keep the Shia-dominated government from becoming TOO strong, and also to give secular Shia a potential ally in the event an Iranian-theocratic Shia force takes power. (Power corrupts; absolute power corrupts absolutely.)
A delicate balancing act.

Posted by glenmore">glenmore 2005-05-17 13:18|| 2005-05-17 13:18|| Front Page Top

#3 FOXNEWS and other medias have reported that most of the recent attacks have been carried out by Muslim foreigners/fighters NOT from Iraq, and that the overwhelming majority of Iraqi locals like and trust our warriors - iff true, the focii of these new attacks can only be to induce America and Allied CENTCOM to attack and invade IRAN, etal., where nuclearized IslamoCong will be waiting for America's volunteer Army, vv VOTE HILLARY '08! The Left for now prefers to internally destabilize and fractionalize America via mostly conventional, controlled/contained
"quagmire", or in the alt mostly conventional with limited [tac]nuke exchange. BILL MAHER > there are no Democrats-Lefties anymore in America, only alleged "Republicans" and "Rightists" for [global] Empire and [global] Socialism, aka "Regulation and Protection"!? As a new "Rightist" liberal, Maher is now lamenting the loss of Secularism thanx to GOP "emotionalism", while PAT BUCHANAN described NEOCONS as LeftLiberals and LeftConservatives, i.e. "Reagan Democrats", whom as a class are attempting to define and control the GOP-Right domin Conservative national movement in America. *FROM WITHIN, BOYZ, FROM WITHIN!

Posted by JosephMendiola">JosephMendiola 2005-05-17 23:15|| n/a]">[n/a] 2005-05-17 23:15|| Front Page Top

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