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2005-09-19 Iraq-Jordan

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Posted by ed 2005-09-19 00:00|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Go, go Shia!
Go, go Sunni!

Posted by gromgoru 2005-09-19 09:07|| 2005-09-19 09:07|| Front Page Top

#2 All of this is in addition to legitimate counter-terrorist operations, where the people rounded up survive the process.

Maybe that's the reason for the blood feud.

Posted by SwissTex 2005-09-19 09:08|| 2005-09-19 09:08|| Front Page Top

#3 Sounds like sectarian cleansing to me. Not that I have a problem with it.

Posted by Mrs. Davis 2005-09-19 09:18|| 2005-09-19 09:18|| Front Page Top

#4 If they are cleaning up the terrorist scum in the population, I'm all for it. Revenge killing, no. So far it sounds like the former.

Posted by mmurray821 2005-09-19 10:17|| 2005-09-19 10:17|| Front Page Top

#5 Sunni's reaping what they've sown.

Posted by Elmeatle Crush5967 2005-09-19 12:06|| 2005-09-19 12:06|| Front Page Top

#6 . . . instead of spectacular car bombs, the Shia Arab and Kurd "avengers" (as they see themselves) stalk individual Sunni Arabs (known to have been killers of Saddam, or terrorists today), and shoot them dead. Sunni Arab men known, or believed to be involved in terrorist operations, are rounded up at night, usually to be never seen alive again. All of this is in addition to legitimate counter-terrorist operations, where the people rounded up survive the process. . . .

It may not be law, but it is justice.

Posted by Mike 2005-09-19 12:10|| 2005-09-19 12:10|| Front Page Top

#7 This is the same "dirty war" pursued in Chile, and to some extent in Argentina, to defeat leftist guerrillas by imprisoning, torturing and killing their supporters. I'm honestly not sure there is any other way to win a struggle against a radicalized internal foe.

It's not a war Americans can fight or win, but it's something the Iraqi's can.

Posted by DoDo 2005-09-19 12:10|| 2005-09-19 12:10|| Front Page Top

#8 Iarq?

Is that near Iarn?

Posted by mojo">mojo 2005-09-19 13:27|| 2005-09-19 13:27|| Front Page Top

#9 Iark?

It deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a word are, the only iprmoatnt tihng is taht the fist and the lsat ltteer be at the rghit pclae. The mnid raed wrod as a wlohe :)

Posted by SwissTex 2005-09-19 13:41|| 2005-09-19 13:41|| Front Page Top

#10 But instead of spectacular car bombs, the Shia Arab and Kurd "avengers" (as they see themselves) stalk individual Sunni Arabs (known to have been killers of Saddam, or terrorists today), and shoot them dead.

They have been watching the success of Mossad and taking notes.

Posted by Baba Tutu 2005-09-19 18:56|| 2005-09-19 18:56|| Front Page Top

#11 Son of a gun! You're right! I blazed right through all that without a moment's hesitation. I learn something every day.

Posted by Whiskey Mike 2005-09-19 18:58|| 2005-09-19 18:58|| Front Page Top

#12 Very enlightening - it's like a larger scale Hatfields and McCoys.

If we were *really* nasty, we'd be widening the fissures that are obviously there. Imagine Saudi Arabia 'coming to the rescue' (do their fighter-bombers really have a third seat for the Pakistani/Filipino that actually *does* the work?) of Sunni brethren in Iraq, with their stallwart allies the Syrians (this years main contender for total state breakup) and the Jordanians (that 100% Jew-hating nation) running slap-bang into an Iran that has been rejigging its armed forces to prevent coup d'etat and may even have some bottled sunshine to hurl around.

Sheesh! they'd better hope the elections and constitution work out in Iraq, 'cos if the US walks away shaking its head "nope, democracy don't work for folks like this", then they really are staring into the abyss.

Oh and instability of the region? that's a feature, not a bug.

Posted by Tony (UK) 2005-09-19 19:11|| 2005-09-19 19:11|| Front Page Top

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