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2007-04-05 Home Front: Culture Wars

USA Today sez: Fix Iraq by arming (moderate) Sunnis

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Posted by Seafarious 2007-04-05 00:17|| || Front Page|| [8 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 RIAN > RUSSIA > Conflict near Russia's border in Central Asia is UNACCEPTABLE to Russia; REGNUM.RU > Iff ISRAEL is involved in any US strike on Iran, IRAN WILL ATTACK ISRAEL; + USA is considering USAGE OF TACTICAL NUCLEAR WEAPONS in possible strikes agz Iranian targets. As per REGNUM's first article, IRAN has already made it clear that ANY ATTACK AGZ IT BY THE USA = US-LED COALITION MAY BE CONSIDERED A STRIKE BY ISRAEL IOW, Iran may attack Israel whether Israel participates in any US attack or not.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2007-04-05 01:03|| 2007-04-05 01:03|| Front Page Top

#2 Iraqis already have a national army. They could create village militias, but there is no guarantee that villages would not defect to the terrorists, as happened in Lebanon in 1983.

Posted by Sneaze 2007-04-05 01:44|| 2007-04-05 01:44|| Front Page Top

#3 OK, who's going to decide who's moderate?

Posted by gorb 2007-04-05 03:10|| 2007-04-05 03:10|| Front Page Top

#4 Gorb, that's easy. The moderates are the ones that supported Saddam. Hell, isn't that what the Dems have been telling us for years? Saddam was a secular moderate that we should have left in place?

A move like this would be an even worse betrayal than Vietnam. We already betrayed the Shia in Iraq once after GW I. Now this despicable troll wants to do so again.

I think I need to start laying in the guns and ammo. 8^(

Posted by AlanC">AlanC 2007-04-05 08:33|| 2007-04-05 08:33|| Front Page Top

#5 Utter fantasy based on so many false premises I won't bother to go into them here. Good example of a poorly informed and poorly reasoned bit of Beltway-style academis b.s. (even though the guy's in Texas).

AQI is about to "establish a haven"? Huh? Of all the preposterously erroneous nonsense I've been forced to hear and read over the last few years, one of my favorites was how Iraq had become a "haven" for AQ. I see. The place on Earth with the highest concentration of US military (and intel) assets deployed for action, with the elbow room provided by the backing of the sovereign government, in a war zone, is a "haven" for our enemies? Right.

Not that we've neccessarily made full use of this permissive environment, but the point is that Iraq is as far from a "haven" for AQ as you can find on the planet. But everyone here already understood that.

Posted by Verlaine 2007-04-05 11:31|| 2007-04-05 11:31|| Front Page Top

#6 Since every Iraqi is currently permitted one AK-47, unless we are planning to arm them with RPGs or tanks I don't see what more we could do in this regard.

Posted by DanNY 2007-04-05 12:21|| 2007-04-05 12:21|| Front Page Top

#7 As I have written before, the solution is on-going: ethnic cleansing. Muslims do it in every country that they pollute.

Posted by Sneaze 2007-04-05 13:20|| 2007-04-05 13:20|| Front Page Top

#8 The voice of the "realists" once again completely undeterred by reality.

Posted by Excalibur 2007-04-05 14:22|| 2007-04-05 14:22|| Front Page Top

#9 Is this idiot allowed out without a minder?

Posted by Mac 2007-04-05 17:38|| 2007-04-05 17:38|| Front Page Top

#10 Alan is a Krapman.

Besides, with the Anbar tribes slugging it out with AQ, the so-called "moderate Sunnis" battle is being waged as this asshole prepared this non-sense.

Posted by Captain America 2007-04-05 18:18|| 2007-04-05 18:18|| Front Page Top

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