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NNN0LHI Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-15-05 09:12 AM
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CNN in Iraq: There is little violence...(insert heavy machine gun fire)...
Edited on Sat Oct-15-05 09:20 AM by NNN0LHI
...oh yes Christian Amanpour repeats there is very little violence her voice getting louder...(insert sound of explosions here)...and yes it has been wonderful (more machine gun fire here) and I am not sure if you can hear me over all this gunfire or not. This must be celebratory gunfire we are hearing. Yes celebratory gunfire. Thats the ticket. As smoke rises from behind Christian she begins swooshing away smoke from in front of her face so the cameraman can see where she is standing.

Don
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electropop Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-15-05 09:17 AM
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1. I'm standing here with Baghdad Bob, who agrees
this is the most peaceful war he's ever seen.
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LynnTheDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-15-05 09:17 AM
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2. Celebrate STONING FOR IRAQI WOMEN!!! WOOOHOOO!!!
BUSH'S PROGRESS; "Iraq Constitution"!

#1. bush will LIE AGAIN this week about his "PROGRESS" in Iraq;

MOST IRAQIS HAVE NOT EVEN SEEN THE CONSTITUTION THEY'RE TO VOTE ON.

Gee what "PROGRESS"!

It's expected to pass, because the VIOLENCE will keep Iraqis away from the voting booths.

Gee what "PROGRESS"!

Iraqis vote on 'invisible' constitution

Insurgency hampers distribution of crucial document as millions prepare to go to the polls this week...
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/article318225.ece

#2. 2000 Americans dead...for an IRANIAN-STYLE ISLAMIC STATE of repressed women in IRAQ;

"Unmaking Iraq, the Constitutional Process Gone Awry,"

The Iraqi constitution as written will push that country toward full-scale civil war, a report from a nonprofit organization warns. Melissa Block talks with Robert Malley, director of the International Crisis Group's Middle East program.
http://www.crisisgroup.org/home/index.cfm?l=1&id=3703

"It may well be more of a prelude to civil war than a step forward," Anthony H. Cordesman said in an analysis for the Center for Strategic and International Studies.

The Bush administration endorsed Iraq's proposed new constitution yesterday, but analysts warned that some provisions can be interpreted to undermine everything from the distribution of political power to a secular judiciary, from women's rights to fair distribution of oil revenue.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/08/24/AR2005082402217_pf.html

There are, however, significant doubts about the religious nature of the new constitution...

"It is written by Islamists for Islamists"

Zainab and her friend Zahra, 37, are both deeply apprehensive about the effect the constitution will have on women's rights. Since "liberation" by US-led forces they have seen the growth in the power of Muslim clerics and the diminishing power of choice.
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/article318609.ece

The Iraqi constitution's downside for women
http://www.juancole.com/2005/09/iraqi-constitutions-downside-for-women.html

Iraqi Women May Lose Basic Rights Under New Constitution
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/0723-06.htm

Iraq's Draft Constitution Is Said to Deepen Divide...will likely trigger civil war...
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/26/AR2005092601442.html

UN issues warning over Iraq constitution

There are fears that Iraq's draft Constitution, due to go a referendum next week, could trigger the break up of the country and even spark a bloody civil war.
http://www.abc.net.au/am/content/2005/s1473209.htm
Americans Die for Sharia (ISLAMIC STATE) in Iraq

It's so Abdul the Iraqi can have six wives. It's so women can be forced to wear the abaya, alcohol can be banned, and sharia law – Muslim religious beliefs as interpreted by a council of mullahs and "grand ayatollahs" – can become the law of the land. As one of the Shi'ite clerics' representatives put it the other day:

"We don't want to see equality between men and women because according to Islamic law, men should have double of women. This is written in the Quran and according to God."
http://www.antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=4774

#3. Iraq "constitution"...A Lose-Lose Referendum;

Five days before Saturday's referendum on Iraq's proposed constitution, the U.S. foreign policy elite appears both anxious and gloomy, increasingly worried that win or lose, the process will bring Iraq one step closer to civil war and, with it, the possible destabilisation of the wider region.

"We've looked for the constitution to be a national pact, and the perception now is that it's not," Gen. George Casey, the commander of U.S. and coalition forces in Iraq, told lawmakers here last week. "Now this constitution has come out, and it didn't come out as a national compact that we thought it was going to be."

Makiya believes the combination of violence and the constitution threatens "the very idea and very possibility of an Iraq".

Barbara Bodine, a veteran diplomat and Middle East expert currently at Harvard University, whose appointment to a senior CPA post after the invasion was blocked by neo-conservatives in the Pentagon, echoed that view.

"The United States has 'Lebanonised' Iraq. It is ironic that a structure that worked so poorly for Lebanon is now the template for Iraq."
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/1012-03.htm

#4. LUCKY Iraqi women! STONING FOR ADULTERY coming soon!

La Repubblica: "Putting it in a nutshell, there will be no more stoning of adulterous women, is that it?"

Al-Yasari, cleric al Sistani's spokesman:
"Well, it depends. In the case of married women whom eye witnesses can accuse of betraying their husbands, the punishment can only be that. But in any event there will be very few exemplary sentences, and they will always be issued after a fair trial."

Welcome to "liberated" Iraq – that’s what our troops are dying for, and that’s what you’re paying for. It’s medievalism with a "democratic" face.

http://www.iraqwar.mirror-world.ru/article/39110

STONING WOMEN! CIVIL WAR! VOTE for a "constitution" you've never read! That's PROGRESS if you're a bushbot idiot!
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RevolutionStartsNow Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-15-05 09:30 AM
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5. It's digusting...
I'm at JFK, forced to watch CNN at the gate, and I'm digusted.

The CNN military analyst is talking about how passing this Constitution won't bring the troops home sooner, it's all about training the Iraqi forces.

And that most Sunnis and many others believe that this will lead to civil war.

What a huge mess we've made. What a tragedy for so many families, Iraqi and American.
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lpbk2713 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-15-05 09:21 AM
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3. Did you see the story about the reporter paddling her canoe?



Link: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x5065362

They probably went to the same school of journalism.


:rofl:


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ET Awful Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-15-05 09:46 AM
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7. What I love is that her own co-workers called her on it on live TV
:)
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NNN0LHI Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-15-05 09:55 AM
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8. I had not seen it but I am glad I have. Thanks n/t
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ananda Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-15-05 09:21 AM
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4. What are the Sunnis doing?
I read that the Sunnis won't vote ...

But that doesn't matter as long as BushInc gets its vote allowing it to claim a great and famous victory. Righteo.

Sue
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RevolutionStartsNow Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-15-05 09:34 AM
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6. Looks like a lot of Sunnis are voting...
and voting No.

Sort of like Dems in CA next month...I want to protest Arnie's stupid and expensive special election, but I don't want to sit there and watch his propositions pass.

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Skink Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-15-05 10:25 AM
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9. Excuse us while we Fortify the polls...
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