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2011-03-22 Iraq

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Posted by Fred 2011-03-22 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11129 views ] Top

#1 It's easy to forget that Iraq is now a Shiia run state and as such will be the protector of the Arab Shiia.

Posted by phil_b 2011-03-22 02:55|| 2011-03-22 02:55|| Front Page Top

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Posted by Dribble2716 2011-03-22 04:51|| 2011-03-22 04:51|| Front Page Top

#3 And yet, phil_b, the author seems to think the Iraqis should rise above their tribal origins and seek a nationalistic unity. It's a nice daydream.

Posted by Bobby 2011-03-22 06:42|| 2011-03-22 06:42|| Front Page Top

#4 More Iraqis were killed under Maliki than Hussein? I don't think so. Iran War, Gulf War 1, Gulf War 2, Kurdish and Swamp Arab purges - and of course the 'millions' of babies we killed with the sanctions, and then there are the routine killings with the plastic shredder etc. Maliki's no saint but he's still a few laps behind Hussein.

Posted by Glenmore 2011-03-22 07:40|| 2011-03-22 07:40|| Front Page Top

#5 Who writes this crap???

Polite estimates say there are between 500,000 and 750,000 bodies in the 1200 or so mass graves throughout Iraq.

Statistical surveys estimate there were over 1.5 million people executed by Saddam, on top of the 1.0 million or so men he fed into the meat grinder with Iran.

Statistical surveys in Baghdad estimate that one in four families in Baghdad had a relative jailed and executed by Saddam.

The totals are hard to come by as millions fled Iraq. The total population of Iraq fell by almost 6.0 million in twenty years between 1980 and 2000.

To say Maliki is on par with Saddam is irresponsible journalism and slander of the worst kind.

Comparing Maliki to Saddam because security forces fired on a crowd is like saying the invasion of Grenada was worse than Operation Barbarosa.

Posted by Bill Clinton 2011-03-22 11:40|| 2011-03-22 11:40|| Front Page Top

#6 Comparing Maliki to Saddam because security forces fired on a crowd is like saying the invasion of Grenada was worse than Operation Barbarosa. It must be fun as a journalist to write for a profoundly ignorant readership! You can say just about anything.

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2011-03-22 12:35|| 2011-03-22 12:35|| Front Page Top

#7 It's a Sunni-Shiite thing. You wouldn't understand.

Posted by Oscar Spineck3066 2011-03-22 12:59|| 2011-03-22 12:59|| Front Page Top

#8 To say Maliki is on par with Saddam

Give him time.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2011-03-22 14:23|| 2011-03-22 14:23|| Front Page Top

#9 ~~Pravda~~ MSM

Posted by Gomez Elmeagum6422 2011-03-22 17:44|| 2011-03-22 17:44|| Front Page Top

#10 "It must be fun as a journalist to ~~write for a~~ be profoundly ignorant ~~readership~~!"

FTFY, AH.

Posted by Barbara Skolaut 2011-03-22 23:05|| 2011-03-22 23:05|| Front Page Top

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