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Shiite Taliban rises as British depart Basra

mammasanmammasan Posts: 5,656
edited September 2007 in A Moving Train
http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0918/p11s01-wome.html
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  • jlew24asujlew24asu Posts: 10,118
    thats sad.
  • even flow?even flow? Posts: 8,066
    Good to see democracy working in the south. People finally free to be who they are and relish in their religion. As heard with some on this board about the States. You don't like it there? Move!
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  • mammasanmammasan Posts: 5,656
    jlew24asu wrote:
    thats sad.

    It is sad but this is the future of Iraq. What was once a fairly liberal city, by Middle Eastern standards, is now a bastion of ultra-conservative fundamentalist Islam in Iraq.
    "When one gets in bed with government, one must expect the diseases it spreads." - Ron Paul
  • CosmoCosmo Posts: 12,225
    File this one under, "Whoda Thunkit?".
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  • jlew24asujlew24asu Posts: 10,118
    Cosmo wrote:
    File this one under, "Whoda Thunkit?".
    ...
    P.S. Dear President Bush,
    Next time you decide to take us to War... please, do some fucking research. Not all War's outcome are based upon you hoping for the best.
    ...

    this is what really has pissed me off about this administration. I saw a interview with cheney (forgot the year, obviously before 03) where he warned against shittes and sunnis fighting. he was almost making a perfect case on why not to go to war. but they went to war anyway. dipshit
  • mammasanmammasan Posts: 5,656
    jlew24asu wrote:
    this is what really has pissed me off about this administration. I saw a interview with cheney (forgot the year, obviously before 03) where he warned against shittes and sunnis fighting. he was almost making a perfect case on why not to go to war. but they went to war anyway. dipshit

    During the first Gulf War people like Cheney and Powell where stating how difficult it would be to control the sectarian animosity in Iraq if Saddam was ever toppled. How it would take at least 500,000 troops to occupy the country. A decade later they tell us we can do it with a 1/4 of the troops and we will be greated as liberators and the whole fucking country will be a giant love fest. BULLSHIT!!!
    "When one gets in bed with government, one must expect the diseases it spreads." - Ron Paul
  • even flow?even flow? Posts: 8,066
    mammasan wrote:
    During the first Gulf War people like Cheney and Powell where stating how difficult it would be to control the sectarian animosity in Iraq if Saddam was ever toppled. How it would take at least 500,000 troops to occupy the country. A decade later they tell us we can do it with a 1/4 of the troops and we will be greated as liberators and the whole fucking country will be a giant love fest. BULLSHIT!!!

    But the foot is in the door now.
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  • mammasanmammasan Posts: 5,656
    even flow? wrote:
    But the foot is in the door now.

    I guess they achieved their goals of making tons of fucking money for their friends. Fuck the troops, fuck the Iraqis, and fuck our kids and grandkids who will be paying the bill for this war.
    "When one gets in bed with government, one must expect the diseases it spreads." - Ron Paul
  • even flow?even flow? Posts: 8,066
    mammasan wrote:
    I guess they achieved their goals of making tons of fucking money for their friends. Fuck the troops, fuck the Iraqis, and fuck our kids and grandkids who will be paying the bill for this war.


    And then some. You have the illusion of an enemy guised in a term (terrorism) that surely won't go away anytime soon. Tack on the fact that anybody in the middle east who wants to go nucuular will be bombed and "dealt with" I can't see the US going home anytime soon.
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  • PearlsGirlPearlsGirl Posts: 257
    mammasan wrote:
    http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0918/p11s01-wome.html

    Of course the Shi'a Taliban are going to rise in Basra, the British did not train Iraqi forces to stop such an uprising. This is no suprise to me, and to be honest, it will not be a suprise to me if after the US leaves, that there will be another dictator that will come to power. It will take more than 5,10 years for democracy to stabilize Iraq, it is a concept that is so foreign to Iraqi's.
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