Posted on 08/07/2007 6:59:16 PM PDT by humint
Let me be among the first to call bullsh*t
This Maliki guy is turning out to be a bad egg.
Thankfully General Petraus is not listening to the guy
The key to his would be if the US fills the security void in Basra as the Brits go into their shell. This would be possible if the surge could draw forces from Al Anbar to do the same with leaders in the south. Then kick over Maliki and let the folks representing the new political reality form a new government.
Anyone who did not see this coming when we invaded simply was not thinking.
Time for a new election.
That's what it looks like.
Color be stupid, I thought the Mesopotamians and the Persians were enemys
“Color be stupid, I thought the Mesopotamians and the Persians were enemys”
The Sunni ruling majority in Iraq were enemies with the Persians. Not the majority Shiites who now control. Democracy installs the majority.
Maybe Maliki’s entourage will meet with an “unfortunate” accident on his way back into Iraq...The US has put up with this fool and his treason backstabbing with Al Sadr AND Iran...
Iraq must either make friends w/ Iran, or be prepared to go to war with them, or both.
Iran is behind a great deal of mischief in Iraq, and it would be nice if they agreed to stop it.
While I’m not claiming pure motives, Nixon did go to China, so one can meet their enemy and come away w/ good things.
Yeah, Im familiar with Sadr and his clan.
Give it time. I know people are hating that answer, but it took 11 years to ratify our own constitution.
Iraq isnt doing so badly
He’s reporting to his Masters.
Ahhhhh the halcyon days....
Iran is ripping Iraq apart at its cultural fault lines. Meanwhile we have "Joe Biden" federalists in the U.S. who are foolishly encouraging the Balkanization of Iraq. All one needs to do is look to the national unity that occurred after the Iraqi Soccer team won the Asian Cup. Iraq is fully capable of standing on its own legs, without Iranian interference. If left unchecked, Iran will terrorize the Kurds and Sunnis, pushing them out of Iraq. Mark my words, the Iranians will take the region to war. The only way to make Iraq a friend of Iran is for a great many Iraqis to move out. If U.S. policy in Iraq is anything other than to abandon that beautiful infant nation - I think we should encourage a United Nations delegation to go to Tehran with a gun and demand all of their olive branches. When they offer none, because they have none, what should we do?
War is a terrible way to recycle petroleum dollars. I'd rather the oil oligarchs build a 7* hotel on the moon, or tennis courts on the ocean floor a mile under water. The money could go up in smoke or fulfill wild dreams neither of us have had yet... I look back at 80s economics as incredibly shortsighted and wasteful. Come to think of it, that's exactly what I think of Henry Kissinger.
Dubai's seven-star hotel Silly or sublime? Regardless, the Burj offers exceptional service
It’d be a nice time for the Sunnis and the Kurds to have a little coup. Maybe al Maliki and al Sadr could become bunk buddies in some Tehran slum.
This is where our petro dollars go.
Its not bad enough that the Iraqi government goes on vacation while dozens of our troops die .... but they go to party with the Iranians....
NO more blood for islam
Split it up and Split. Come back with ICBMs.
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