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How will an Islamic rule in Iraq benefit the US?
Posted on 08/22/2005 5:13:37 AM PDT by thorlock
I am an independent and have become uneasy about what is happening in Iraq. The constitutional crises now going on is pitting the various factions against each other. What bothers me the most, however, is the fact that Iraq is on it's way to becoming a country ruled by islamofacists. I realize this was not our goal, but the reality is our policy there has created a situation that does exactly the opposite of what we wanted.
How does this benefit the US?
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posted on
08/22/2005 5:13:38 AM PDT
by
thorlock
To: thorlock
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posted on
08/22/2005 5:14:51 AM PDT
by
SteveMcKing
("I was born a Democrat. I expect I'll be a Democrat the day I leave this earth." -Zell Miller '04)
To: thorlock
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posted on
08/22/2005 5:15:49 AM PDT
by
Bahbah
(Air America: kids-for-kilowatts)
To: thorlock; timpad; TBarnett34; MeekOneGOP; Old Sarge; PetroniDE; Lady Jag; mhking; glock rocks; ...
Sniff...
Please let me know if you want ON or OFF my Viking Kitty/ZOT ping list!. . .don't be shy.
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posted on
08/22/2005 5:15:51 AM PDT
by
darkwing104
(Let's get dangerous)
To: thorlock
This isn't that oil company thread again? IBTZ
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posted on
08/22/2005 5:17:29 AM PDT
by
neodad
(I wish to have no connection with any ship that does not sail fast, for I intend to go in harm's way)
To: Bahbah
Awww... shucks... The Iraqis haven't even finished drafting a Constitution and the Left is out in force to be the first to break the story.
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posted on
08/22/2005 5:18:02 AM PDT
by
coconutt2000
(NO MORE PEACE FOR OIL!!! DOWN WITH TYRANTS, TERRORISTS, AND TIMIDCRATS!!!! (3-T's For World Peace))
To: thorlock
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posted on
08/22/2005 5:18:18 AM PDT
by
tiredoflaundry
(9-11 Commission - The largest CYA Operation in history!)
To: thorlock
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posted on
08/22/2005 5:18:55 AM PDT
by
ncountylee
(Dead terrorists smell like victory)
To: thorlock
How will an Islamic rule in Iraq benefit the US?It won't.
Next to outright losing the shooting war to the terrorists and their islamic supporters, this is the worst possible outcome.!
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posted on
08/22/2005 5:20:05 AM PDT
by
Publius6961
(Liberal level playing field: If the Islamics win we are their slaves..if we win they are our equals.)
To: darkwing104
Please add me to the death list.
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posted on
08/22/2005 5:21:34 AM PDT
by
satchmodog9
(Murder and weather are our only news)
To: satchmodog9
done.
Please let me know if you want ON or OFF my Viking Kitty/ZOT ping list!. . .don't be shy.
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posted on
08/22/2005 5:23:21 AM PDT
by
darkwing104
(Let's get dangerous)
To: Publius6961
I agree, I was hoping someone could come up with a benefit. Sure they might democratically chose to let the islamofacists rule, so it is their choice.
Not what I had in mind after 9/11.
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posted on
08/22/2005 5:24:55 AM PDT
by
thorlock
To: thorlock
Welcome to Free Republic.
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posted on
08/22/2005 5:31:06 AM PDT
by
PilloryHillary
(Eva Peron + Chappaqua = Hillary Clinton)
To: thorlock; darkwing104
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posted on
08/22/2005 5:33:12 AM PDT
by
Zacs Mom
(Proud wife of a Marine! ... and purveyor of "rampant, unedited dialogue")
To: thorlock
The great irony of the current situation in Iraq is that you have an Iranian Shiite theocracy materially supporting the Sunni (triangle) militants and terrorists who are killing Iraqi Shiites (as well as Coalition Forces). The reason for this is that most Iraqi Shia currently support the (Iranian born) Shia cleric Ayatollah Al Sistani. Sistani is opposed on theological grounds to the attempted hijacking of Shia Islam by the Iranians. Only the Muqtada Al Sadr Shia faction is favorably disposed to the Iranians.
Sooner or later, as the Iraqi Army is "stood up", and the US presence is "drawn down", there will come a day of reckoning, when the Iranians will be forced to show their hand. They may even attempt to assassinate Al Sistani, but if their fingerprints are on the attempt, they risk losing all support within the Iraqi Shia community. In any event, the Iranians will be forced to choose between the Iraqi Shia and the Sunni terrorists. At that point it will hardly matter whether Iraqi is nominally an "Islamic" country or not. Personally, I think there will be civil war, with a Shia and Kurdish alliance versus the Sunnis. Both Al Qaeda and the Iranians will be relatively minor players in that contest.
To: Bahbah
What's IBTZ?
Let's not step into the fun house hall of mirrors.
Many would argue that if you were to ask Adolph Hitler for the time and he responds, we need to reinvent the clock, lest we associate time in some way with the Nazis.
Even a stopped clocked is right twice a day, and, yes, DUmmies can accidentally draw a correct conclusion from current events.
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posted on
08/22/2005 5:37:37 AM PDT
by
Publius6961
(Liberal level playing field: If the Islamics win we are their slaves..if we win they are our equals.)
To: Publius6961
What's IBTZ?In Before the Zot :)
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posted on
08/22/2005 5:39:00 AM PDT
by
Bahbah
(Air America: kids-for-kilowatts)
To: thorlock
"...our policy there has created a situation that does exactly the opposite of what we wanted"
- What brings you to open a FR account today?
- Has there never been a FR thread that wasn't anti-Bush which made a "conservative" like you post a comment before?
- Why start today to post this as your own thread?
When you're set upon by a pack of rabid dogs, you don't try to figure out which one bit you last and you can't know which will bite you next. You start destroying every one of them in the order opportunity presents you.
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posted on
08/22/2005 5:41:37 AM PDT
by
drpix
To: Bahbah
In Before the Zot :)I'm having trouble keeping up with tribal knowledge...
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posted on
08/22/2005 5:41:49 AM PDT
by
Publius6961
(Liberal level playing field: If the Islamics win we are their slaves..if we win they are our equals.)
To: drpix
When the development of events starts pointing at a very probable undesireable result, it's not "negative" to point it out.
We may have a lot of kool aid drinkers about, but let's not become ostriches ourselves.
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posted on
08/22/2005 5:44:35 AM PDT
by
Publius6961
(Liberal level playing field: If the Islamics win we are their slaves..if we win they are our equals.)
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