Posted on 08/22/2007 1:59:21 PM PDT by WBL 1952
Earlier today, the Italian news service AKI reported that the presumed leader of the largest insurgency in Iraq will start cooperating with the Iraqi government. Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri, one of the highest-ranking members of Saddam Hussein's government, reportedly pledged to work with Iraqi and American forces to fight al-Qaeda in Iraq:
The leader of Iraq's banned Baath party, Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri, has decided to join efforts by the Iraqi authorities to fight al-Qaeda, one of the party's former top officials, Abu Wisam al-Jashaami, told pan-Arab daily Al Hayat. "AlDouri has decided to sever ties with al-Qaeda and sign up to the programme of the national resistance, which includes routing Islamist terrorists and opening up dialogue with the Baghdad government and foreign forces," al-Jashaami said.
Al-Douri has decided to deal directly with US forces in Iraq, according to al-Jashaami. He figures in the 55-card deck of "most wanted" officials from the former Iraqi regime issued by the US government.
In return, for cooperating in the fight against al-Qaeda, al-Douri has asked for guarantees over his men's safety and for an end to Iraqi army attacks on his militias.
Recent weeks have seen a first step in this direction, when Baathist fighters cooperated with Iraqi government forces in hunting down al-Qaeda operatives in the volatile Diyala province and in several districts of the capital, Baghadad.
This could be game, set, and match for the Iraq War. Some smaller insurgent elements assisted in clearing Baqubah as a test to see whether an alliance with Americans would work. Apparently, the experiment worked. If al-Douri accepts the authority of the elected Iraqi government, then almost all of the resistance in western Iraq will disappear -- leaving AQI very exposed.
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We got along just fine with Uncle Joe Stalin during WW II. Twenty million dead Ukrainians didn't slow us down a bit. When fighting an implacable and deadly foe you do what you have to do to win. You want a pretty picture, go to a museum.
"Do we have any intelligence of how many terrorists or insurgents there were in Mexico in January? Do we have any reasonable estimate as to their numbers now? Have the government and American forces been able to gain control over the borders in order to stem the flow of foreigners and illegals coming into America? Do we have any idea of the ratio of terrorists to illegals invading now as opposed to in January?"
I wish I could hear him say that, too.
I'm not holding my breath, though.
"But I'm willing to compromise: one rope, two nooses; on one side of the limb on a camel: al-Douri; on the other, on an ass: al-Sadr. Yee-hah and it's all good."
I'm in total agreement with you on that.
Yee-hah...that would be the icing on the cake.
That, plus the candygram. ;o)
LOL!
That’s GREAT!
Thank you!
What a great idea, gonzo!
I bet there are some brilliant minds working on that right now,
unless they’ve already made it.
That’s GREAT, potlatch!
Thank you!
Can’t wait for the real deal.
That dude, and his minions, need to go...yesterday.
“We got along just fine with Uncle Joe Stalin during WW II. Twenty million dead Ukrainians didn’t slow us down a bit.”
Proud of that?
What you’re saying is, we shouldn’t learn from our mistakes?
Millions of people ended up being condemned to life under communism in Eastern Europe. I would hope if we went back, we wouldn’t make the same decisions and allow that to happen again.
“When fighting an implacable and deadly foe you do what you have to do to win.”
That’s not how we operate.
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