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2007-02-02 Iraq

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Posted by ryuge 2007-02-02 06:25|| || Front Page|| [3 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Tribal conflicts have been a way of life for people in this area for a long time. A death wish built into the culture.

Posted by JohnQC 2007-02-02 08:34|| 2007-02-02 08:34|| Front Page Top

#2 Interesting isn't it that those with a agenda for Iraq are quick to tag it a civil war while Darfur is not.

Posted by Procopius2k 2007-02-02 08:38|| 2007-02-02 08:38|| Front Page Top

#3 It does make me unset that early on, in the war of terror, incredibly stupid ideas were left unchallenged until the perception became reality. The truth of America has no voice and everyone is just believing what they've been told by the MSM's terrorism "experts" and democrats.

Posted by Gloque Elmang4914 2007-02-02 09:01|| 2007-02-02 09:01|| Front Page Top

#4 upset*

Posted by Gloque Elmang4914 2007-02-02 09:01|| 2007-02-02 09:01|| Front Page Top

#5 Damn pessimism. The Baghdad Plan is do-able. And once that is resolved, everything else will fall into place.

I predict: at least 5 of Baghdad's 9 sectors will be pacified by July.

Posted by Sneaze 2007-02-02 09:09|| 2007-02-02 09:09|| Front Page Top

#6 The Hammer is right on, as usual.

Posted by Mike 2007-02-02 09:24|| 2007-02-02 09:24|| Front Page Top

#7 Charles Krauthammer always puts things into perspective. I don't think this guy has ever written an article that didn't make sense. If he has written something off base in the past 6 years I can't recall it.

Posted by Mark Z">Mark Z 2007-02-02 09:30|| 2007-02-02 09:30|| Front Page Top

#8 We midwifed their freedom. They chose ~~civil war.~~ abortion!

Posted by Besoeker 2007-02-02 10:40|| 2007-02-02 10:40|| Front Page Top

#9 What an incredible summary of how mis-informed the American public is. And, how we, the American public, absolutely FAIL to pursue the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth.

What a sad, want-it-now, fast-food, microwaved, short attention span country we live in. One that needs to be pampered, coddled and spoon fed news. Sometimes, parts of me wonder if our citizenry (I don't mean the principles of our nation) are even worth fighting for. The country (principles)? Hell yes! The citizenry? Hell no!

Posted by BA 2007-02-02 11:48|| 2007-02-02 11:48|| Front Page Top

#10 Agreed, BA, but when all is said and done, our problem is cultural and moral. The vast majority of Americans just can't tell right from wrong anymore.

Posted by mcsegeek1 2007-02-02 12:23|| 2007-02-02 12:23|| Front Page Top

#11 "We did not give them a republic,'' insists Newsweek's Fareed Zakaria. "We gave them a civil war.''

Of all the accounts of the current situation, this is by far the most stupid. And the most pernicious.

I'm so glad to see Krauthammer smack Zakaria down. Zakaria's always had this insufferably smug attitude toward the war of "Things would have worked if Bush had only listened to me." He's a legend in his own mind.

Posted by xbalanke 2007-02-02 13:12|| 2007-02-02 13:12|| Front Page Top

#12 A GLOBAL JIHADIST/ISLAMIST STATE preplete wid PERENNIAL? SHIA-SUNNI VIOLENCE only shows, AGAIN, why Dubya=USA/Allies are in the ME and MUST STAY THERE UNTIL DEMOCRACY IS FIRMLY ENTRENCHED. Amers as a people don't care about ruling Nations or the World - they want $$$ and business. "The World" gener or roughly wants to be America - wanna be technical/legalist and blame someone, BLAME THEIR ANCIENT PHOENECIAN, EGYPTIAN, and INDO-SUMERIAN/SEMITIC/MESOPOTAMIAN ANCESTORS, OR AT LEAST THE ANCIENT GREEKS-AEGEANS, ETAL. FOR CAPITALISM AND MERCANTILIST COMPETITION. BLAME THE FIRST DESERT CHIEF WHOM TRADED HIS CAMEL, WIFE(S), KIDDIES, SERVANTS, ANDOR GOODS FOR SURVIVAL = POLITICAL POWER.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2007-02-02 21:03|| 2007-02-02 21:03|| Front Page Top

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