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allemand (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-20-05 08:15 AM Original message |
US hopes of secular Iraqi state fade away |
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rodeodance (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-20-05 08:18 AM Response to Original message |
1. Instead, a religious alliance is in the box seat.---a fundamentalist |
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rodeodance (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-20-05 08:20 AM Response to Original message |
2. put this is the "progress" column. |
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RUMMYisFROSTED (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-20-05 08:20 AM Response to Original message |
3. Atta boy, Chimp! |
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Spinzonner (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-20-05 08:22 AM Response to Original message |
4. But then we knew this, as would anyone who read Iraqi history |
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PurityOfEssence (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-20-05 11:03 AM Response to Reply #4 |
14. Amazing, huh? |
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obxhead (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-20-05 09:17 PM Response to Reply #14 |
46. isn't fundamentalism fun? |
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Yavin4 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-20-05 11:18 AM Response to Reply #4 |
16. Bush Learns from Sock Puppets |
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SOS (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-20-05 11:55 AM Response to Reply #4 |
23. Bush didn't even know what a "Sunni" was in 2003... |
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Fovea (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-20-05 04:15 PM Response to Reply #4 |
33. Read History? |
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RazzleDazzle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-20-05 06:47 PM Response to Reply #4 |
41. It didn't even take reading history -- there were PLENTY of |
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rocktivity (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-21-05 02:37 PM Response to Reply #41 |
61. DING DING DING! RazzleDazzle, you're our grand prize winner! |
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KitchenWitch (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-20-05 08:23 AM Response to Original message |
5. The irony is delicious |
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MadisonProgressive (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-20-05 08:38 AM Response to Original message |
6. Game, set, and match! |
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tanyev (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-20-05 08:44 AM Response to Original message |
7. Mission Accomplished. WTG, George. |
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enigma000 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-20-05 08:50 AM Response to Original message |
8. but...but...but...the US approved the candidates n/t |
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hatrack (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-20-05 09:05 AM Response to Original message |
9. With more than 60% of the Iraqi population Shiite . . . |
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catmandu57 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-20-05 09:06 AM Response to Original message |
10. You did it georgie* |
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Jim__ (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-20-05 09:06 AM Response to Original message |
11. Is anyone surprised by this? - n/t |
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enigma000 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-20-05 09:14 AM Response to Reply #11 |
13. Well, a little |
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ixion (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-20-05 09:07 AM Response to Original message |
12. I guess those six-figure analysts got it wrong |
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Javaman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-20-05 11:12 AM Response to Original message |
15. doin' a heck of a job there, georgie*... |
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Massachusetts (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-20-05 11:20 AM Response to Original message |
17. No Shit Sherlock! |
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grytpype (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-20-05 11:35 AM Response to Original message |
18. Congratulations Duhbya, you handed Iraq over to Iran. |
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EVDebs (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-20-05 05:52 PM Response to Reply #18 |
37. Patrick Lang of the DIA said Iranian intell's gaming of * was 'good work' |
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stickdog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-20-05 11:38 AM Response to Original message |
19. Iraq will be a shining example of Middle East Theocracy! (nt) |
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killbotfactory (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-20-05 11:41 AM Response to Original message |
20. Is Bush an Iranian agent sent to destroy America? |
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bpilgrim (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-20-05 11:49 AM Response to Original message |
21. huRah! the war is OVER, Iran WON (n/t) |
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Hyernel (665 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-20-05 11:52 AM Response to Original message |
22. The hope of a secular American state are fading too. |
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AnneD (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-20-05 12:05 PM Response to Original message |
24. I just can't believe they were that stupid... |
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tenshi816 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-20-05 02:36 PM Response to Original message |
25. So, is it "mission accomplished"? |
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KansDem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-20-05 02:54 PM Response to Original message |
26. Wait a minute...WAIT a minute...this could all change...!!! |
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tabasco (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-20-05 02:58 PM Response to Original message |
27. A trillion dollars of our money and how many thousands of lives lost, |
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silvermachine (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-20-05 02:59 PM Response to Original message |
28. What did they expect? |
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Wordie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-20-05 03:07 PM Response to Original message |
29. Not only that, but by strengthening the fundamentalist mullahs hand, we've |
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daleo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-20-05 03:28 PM Response to Original message |
30. I wonder how U.S. propaganda will handle this? |
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gratuitous (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-20-05 03:41 PM Response to Reply #30 |
31. A theocracy isn't so bad, or . . . |
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daleo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-20-05 04:03 PM Response to Reply #31 |
32. Talk about your law of unintended consequences... |
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Disturbed (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-20-05 04:25 PM Response to Reply #32 |
35. The Bush Admin. is only concerned with the following. |
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SoCalDem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-20-05 06:29 PM Response to Reply #35 |
39. Well.. "our way of life" has been lived on borrowed time for a long time |
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Eugene (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-20-05 08:39 PM Response to Reply #30 |
45. Stephen Hadley says, "No surprise." |
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Danmel (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-20-05 04:21 PM Response to Original message |
34. As the kids would say "DUH" |
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Miss Chybil (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-20-05 04:34 PM Response to Original message |
36. If this is how the majority of Iraqi people want to live, this is how they |
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mom cat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-20-05 06:23 PM Response to Original message |
38. There was a secular govt in Iraq before we invaded. If Bush had really |
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pinkpops (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-20-05 06:39 PM Response to Original message |
40. damn paper ballots |
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donkeyotay (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-20-05 06:50 PM Response to Original message |
42. I thought Chalabi was part of the UIA |
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arewenotdemo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-20-05 07:07 PM Response to Original message |
43. Isla...er, Freedom is on the March! |
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angryxyouth (174 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-20-05 08:30 PM Response to Original message |
44. So do we continue to build an Iraqi Military |
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Solly Mack (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-20-05 09:45 PM Response to Original message |
47. That headline is laughable |
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allemand (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-21-05 07:19 AM Response to Reply #47 |
48. They had hoped that Allawi would win. They put a lot of money into his |
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Solly Mack (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-21-05 08:35 AM Response to Reply #48 |
49. they hoped against the obvious |
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Solly Mack (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-21-05 09:37 AM Response to Reply #49 |
50. cont. |
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allemand (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-21-05 11:55 AM Response to Reply #50 |
55. I'm afraid that the next "logical" step might be the invasion of Iran |
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Solly Mack (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-21-05 12:10 PM Response to Reply #55 |
56. exactly.... at least that's what I think it's building up to anyway |
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yellowcanine (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-21-05 09:42 AM Response to Original message |
51. Need to start the drumbeat now: Who "lost" Iraq to the Ayatollahs? |
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HuffleClaw (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-21-05 10:44 AM Response to Original message |
52. i seem to recall a quote by dear leader that |
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wiggs (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-21-05 11:22 AM Response to Original message |
53. win-win election for neocons |
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adigal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-21-05 11:27 AM Response to Reply #53 |
54. This is going to be really bad |
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Pachamama (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-21-05 12:16 PM Response to Original message |
57. This is what our soldiers are dying for? For a secular state in Iraq? |
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TrogL (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-21-05 12:30 PM Response to Original message |
58. In other words, a complete and total clusterfuck |
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Lilith Velkor (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-21-05 12:33 PM Response to Original message |
59. The US was only pretending hope for a secular state anyway |
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rocktivity (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-21-05 02:26 PM Response to Original message |
60. WINNER OF THE 2005 ROCKNATION "YOU CALL THIS NEWS?" AWARD |
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ismnotwasm (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-21-05 02:51 PM Response to Original message |
62. WHAT hopes? |
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