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CBS: Baathist insurgents fighting together with US troops
CBS News via Live Leak ^ | June 8 2007

Posted on 6/9/2007, 2:50:47 AM by ASC2006

CBS reports Baathist insurgents and Sunni nationalists are fighting al-Qaeda together with US forces

(Excerpt) Read more at liveleak.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: alqaedainiraq; alqaedaunderiraq; baathists; iraq; oif; unmarkedgraves

1 posted on 6/9/2007, 2:50:49 AM by ASC2006
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To: ASC2006

bump


2 posted on 6/9/2007, 2:52:13 AM by Jet Jaguar
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To: ASC2006

..the enemy of my enemy is my friend.... *kind of*....


3 posted on 6/9/2007, 2:58:02 AM by NorCalRepub
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To: NorCalRepub

The Baathists are mostly secular and educated. They will almost certainly be better allies then the uneducated religious Shia masses.


4 posted on 6/9/2007, 2:59:44 AM by ASC2006
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To: NorCalRepub

Muqie is going to lose sleep over this.


5 posted on 6/9/2007, 3:00:06 AM by Perdogg (congratulations - you have just won an ipod nano)
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To: ASC2006

But John Edwards says we have more enemies and fewer allies?


6 posted on 6/9/2007, 3:03:07 AM by Stultis (I don't worry about the war turning into "Vietnam" in Iraq; I worry about it doing so in Congress.)
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To: ASC2006

oh yeah.....they want no part of the strict Al Qaeda code or laws.....though I have little sympathy for them either.. but kill off one first....then work on the others....


7 posted on 6/9/2007, 3:03:13 AM by NorCalRepub
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To: Perdogg

More to the point the Iranian leadership along with al-Qaeda stands to lose the most over this.


8 posted on 6/9/2007, 3:08:20 AM by ASC2006
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To: SolidWood; Paleo Conservative; RightWhale; MinorityRepublican; Ernest_at_the_Beach; Steel Wolf; ...

ping


9 posted on 6/9/2007, 3:10:59 AM by ASC2006
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To: ASC2006

Thanks for the good news.


10 posted on 6/9/2007, 3:20:29 AM by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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To: ASC2006
I’d keep an eye on the ex-Republican Guards, though. They’re indoctrinated ideologs who’ll garrot you the moment you turn your back.
11 posted on 6/9/2007, 3:25:33 AM by Thrownatbirth (.....when the sidewalks are safe for the little guy.)
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To: george76

Heard some general talk about this. I thought ‘it’s about time they tried a ‘bottom up’ approach. The top tier sucks.


12 posted on 6/9/2007, 3:26:44 AM by griswold3
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To: ASC2006

It is very hard to hide this great success and the most important turning point in the war since the fall of Saddam regime. Even the liberal media cannot hide it.


13 posted on 6/9/2007, 4:43:21 AM by jveritas (Support The Commander in Chief in Times of War)
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To: ASC2006
>>>The Baathists are mostly secular and educated. They will almost certainly be better allies then the uneducated religious Shia masses.<<<

I wonder when we will cut the Kurds loose on the Iranian backed Shia's like Mookie and the infiltrating alQuds troops?

The whole place is a dogs-breakfast of allegiances....but there is no harm in pitting the relative good guys against the demonstratively bad guys!!

14 posted on 6/9/2007, 5:03:15 AM by HardStarboard (Take No Prisoners - We're Out of Qurans)
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