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Thousands return to safer Iraqi capital

jlew24asujlew24asu Posts: 10,118
edited November 2007 in A Moving Train
some good news never hurts.



BAGHDAD - In a dramatic turnaround, more than 3,000 Iraqi families driven out of their Baghdad neighborhoods have returned to their homes in the past three months as sectarian violence has dropped, the government said Saturday.


Saad al-Azawi, his wife and four children are among them. They fled to Syria six months ago, leaving behind what had become one of the capital's more dangerous districts — west Baghdad's largely Sunni Khadra region.

The family had been living inside a vicious and bloody turf battle between al-Qaida in Iraq and Mahdi Army militiamen. But Azawi said things began changing, becoming more peaceful, in August when radical anti-American Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr ordered his Mahdi Army fighters to stand down nationwide.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071104/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq
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  • MrBrianMrBrian Posts: 2,672
    Good news? hardly. like a guy with a bullet wound and a band aid on it, they are all still fucked. it means nothing.
  • 810wmb810wmb Posts: 849
    MrBrian wrote:
    Good news? hardly. like a guy with a bullet wound and a band aid on it, they are all still fucked. it means nothing.


    thanks, mr sunshine
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  • gimmesometruth27gimmesometruth27 St. Fuckin Louis Posts: 23,303
    iraq is such old news, when are we going to spread democracy to our ally on the war on terror, pakistan??
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  • TruthmongerTruthmonger Posts: 559
    Its peanuts. 3000 out of 4 million displaced Iraqis. Is this a joke ? And what have they come back to ? A Baghdad that, to this day, has electricity just 8-12 hrs./day. A baghdad where sewage still runs down the streets.

    Dude, you're puttin' lipstick on a pig. Its not a success, its an indictment on 5 years of American mismanagement and hypocrisy.
  • RolandTD20KdrummerRolandTD20Kdrummer Posts: 13,066
    Don't you see it's nothing short of a little ityy bitty triumph...

    A resounding success on a sub-microscopic level....a sub-atomic level perhaps And hey that's good enough for...something.....right?

    Look on the bright side, at least that real bad mean guy Saddam was hunted down and murdered. Money well spent right?

    Murder is ok when the west does it. It's eastern Muslim murder that's the bad kind.

    Just like that guru Ann Coulter says.....Islam bad Christian good.
    Progress is not made by everyone joining some new fad,
    and reveling in it's loyalty. It's made by forming coalitions
    over specific principles, goals, and policies.

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  • 810wmb810wmb Posts: 849
    RolandTD20Kdrummer wrote:
    Islam bad Christian good.

    true
    i'm the meat, yer not...signed Capt Asshat
  • RolandTD20KdrummerRolandTD20Kdrummer Posts: 13,066
    810wmb wrote:
    true

    Ann is that you?

    Yeah right...crazies on both sides.
    Progress is not made by everyone joining some new fad,
    and reveling in it's loyalty. It's made by forming coalitions
    over specific principles, goals, and policies.

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  • soulsingingsoulsinging Posts: 13,202
    sweet! Mission Accomplished!

    why does that sound so familiar?
  • CosmoCosmo Posts: 12,225
    jlew24asu wrote:
    some good news never hurts.



    BAGHDAD - In a dramatic turnaround, more than 3,000 Iraqi families driven out of their Baghdad neighborhoods have returned to their homes in the past three months as sectarian violence has dropped, the government said Saturday.


    Saad al-Azawi, his wife and four children are among them. They fled to Syria six months ago, leaving behind what had become one of the capital's more dangerous districts — west Baghdad's largely Sunni Khadra region.

    The family had been living inside a vicious and bloody turf battle between al-Qaida in Iraq and Mahdi Army militiamen. But Azawi said things began changing, becoming more peaceful, in August when radical anti-American Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr ordered his Mahdi Army fighters to stand down nationwide.

    http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071104/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq
    ...
    That's good news...
    ...
    So.... when do OUR guys get to 'Come Home'?
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  • g under pg under p Surfing The far side of THE Sombrero Galaxy Posts: 18,200
    It appears AMT is saying loudly so far these 3000 Iraqis coming home to what's left of their capital is NOT much of a success. Since there appears to be such success why not bring the troops home NOW!

    Oh can't happen yet with the half a billion $$$ US Embassy and 3 or 4 permanent US Military bases being built.

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  • RolandTD20KdrummerRolandTD20Kdrummer Posts: 13,066
    Let's sprinkle some cinnamon on a steaming coil of dogshit and call it a danish.

    It what's for breakfast!
    Progress is not made by everyone joining some new fad,
    and reveling in it's loyalty. It's made by forming coalitions
    over specific principles, goals, and policies.

    http://i36.tinypic.com/66j31x.jpg

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    ( o.O)
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  • ByrnzieByrnzie Posts: 21,037
    Over 1 million Iraqi citizens aren't able to return home, coz they're pushing up daisy's. Oh well, never mind! I suppose it was worth it in the end....




















    ..not.
  • puremagicpuremagic Posts: 1,907
    jlew24asu wrote:
    some good news never hurts.



    BAGHDAD - In a dramatic turnaround, more than 3,000 Iraqi families driven out of their Baghdad neighborhoods have returned to their homes in the past three months as sectarian violence has dropped, the government said Saturday.


    Saad al-Azawi, his wife and four children are among them. They fled to Syria six months ago, leaving behind what had become one of the capital's more dangerous districts — west Baghdad's largely Sunni Khadra region.

    The family had been living inside a vicious and bloody turf battle between al-Qaida in Iraq and Mahdi Army militiamen. But Azawi said things began changing, becoming more peaceful, in August when radical anti-American Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr ordered his Mahdi Army fighters to stand down nationwide.

    http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071104/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq


    4 million - 3,000 ='s where's the dramatic progress.

    ....According to the United Nations, 4 million Iraqis (50,000 people a month) have fled their homes since the war began, with 2 million going to neighboring countries and 2 million displaced within Iraq. Half of them are children. Current estimates of the number of Iraqi refugees in Jordan vary widely, but the U.N. places it at 750,000. Salah Mehdi Samarai, the president of the nonprofit Royal Organization for Iraqi Immigrants in Amman, disagrees. Samarai, along with other human rights agencies, says the number of Iraqis in Jordan is more than a million, and he says they are living desperately among the Jordanian population.

    "I call it blindness. Can't they see? Can't they hear?" he said. "There are a million [Iraqis] in Jordan. Who helps them?"

    http://www.pbs.org/frontlineworld/blog/2007/09/jordans_iraqi_r.html
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