Iraq is going to have to do two things:
First is to step up the talking points about Arabs from other countries coming there to make trouble.
The second is to show in no uncertain terms how they handle trouble makers.
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ping for later, thanks for the post.
Pelosi probably saw them when she was in that Damascus market...
We knew this back in 2003 from the captured cellphones & GPS devices. al Doury’s been running the show from Syria since Baghdad fell.
Not possible. Syria is now an ally thanks to our new Secretary of State, Ms. Pelosi. This guy is lying. EXTREME Sarc
Seems like we should deploy some troops to close the borders with Iran and Syria. If they can’t get into Iraq, they can’t cause trouble.
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(1) There is no civil war in Iraq and there never has been.
(2) The Gulf States are using Iraq as a way of burning off their homegrown radicals.
It’s a civil war because they don’t wear uniforms to identify them as cult wackos.
Statistical problem here. This is not 70% of the insurgents, it is 70% of the ones who were CAUGHT. The foreigners are much more likely to be caught, since they have accents, do not know the country as well, and are probably bolder than native Iraqis (since they don’t have families in Iraq to protect). The real number is probably significantly less, though still high enough that it is very stupid for Iraq not to have closed its border with Syria.
Easy........the “civil war” is the Dims and MSM standard template...........how could the truth be otherwise.
Actually, it sounds like they’re entering Iraq legally. The article mentions passports. They wouldn’t care about that if they were sneaking in. We still need to mark Iraq’s borders with minefields.
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Isn't all the resistance in Iraq from Al-Anbar Province, where there are an estimated 100,000 Insurgents?
not meaning to quibble really but foreign fighters notwithstanding
I am hearing from folks who have been there that it is sort of a civil war in the central part of the country tween Sunni and Shia
and if they get their way with Kurdish mineral rights then , the Kurds will get in too
no doubt Al Quaeda is there but this has the earmarks of civil war as well
not like ours....more like northern Ireland with more bombs and less manners
nation building only works when children are starving and women are wailing amongst the rubble of what was...
hate to be harsh about it but that’s it....and I don’t think all cultures are ripe for representational governance and I think Bush was naive to think so....I though that then.
just another PC sensibility they have demonstrated that has not gone swell
Getting Serious About Syria
From the December 20, 2004 issue: By Bush Doctrine standards, Syria is a hostile regime, so we have a Syria problem.
by William Kristol
Bill highlights the December 2, 2004, London Daily Telegraph, on page 14, by Jack Fairweather, datelined Damascus. Its headline: “All aboard the terrorists’ bus to Iraq. Mujahideen mosques are springing up all over Syria to arm militants and send them across the border to do battle with the hated Americans.”
http://www.weeklystandard.com/Utilities/printer_preview.asp?idArticle=5020&R=EF21708
Nancy pelosi just doesn’t get it...