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Mon Jan-09-06 06:10 PM
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(My first topic here - my editor rejected this topic as "too inflammatory)
Why the Sunnis? And why are they the Blue Team? Good questions!
1)The Sunnis “lost” the general election. They are now a political minority. I empathize with them.
2)The Sunnis are secular. Their adversaries have formed a religious majority and will now force the Sunnis to live under a Constitution based on a radical and widely supported theocracy. Right there in their brand new Constitution it says that “no law may contradict Islam”. That means that stoning is legal! Wow, now I REALLY empathize with those losers!
3)The hard-line Iranian leaders support the victorious majority party. Iranians don't like Sunnis but they love the idea of a nearby anti-American ally in the new Iraq. Again, the loser Sunnis are tugging at my patriotic heartstrings.
4)Finally, the Sunnis seem to have no standard bearer. The partisans appear to be on the winning team. The media is always quoting that Sistani guy, or their real radical religious leader, George W. Sadr. The majority party voters love these guys, but I don't. They remind me of the worst politicians here at home. How could I possibly support the Iraqi Red Team?
Well, there you have it. I am a confirmed Sunni man. Loyal to the end, whenever that is.
End note: Any political similarity to the United States is satirical and not at all a coincidence.
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| NMDemDist2
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Mon Jan-09-06 06:13 PM
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| 1. ROFL!!!! Welcome to DU Left Below! |
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you're gonna fit right in.........
:hi:
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Mon Jan-09-06 06:31 PM
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| 3. i'll give this one a kick for a newbie with a great post! n/t |
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Mon Jan-09-06 06:23 PM
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| 2. That's too funny, and I tend to agree... |
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See my post here... http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=132&topic_id=2336327#2336360...where I wondered if the Sunnis weren't the Iraqi Unitarians. Welcome to DU, Left Below. |
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Mon Jan-09-06 06:34 PM
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I get up at seven, yeah
And I go to work at nine
I got no time for praying
Yes, I'm workin' all the time
(Chorus)
It seems to me
I could live my life
A lot better than the Mullahs can
I guess that's why they call me
They call me the Sunni Man
-- with profuse apologies to Rush (...the group, not the radio announcer)
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Mon Jan-09-06 06:59 PM
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| 7. They were the geo-political bulwark in Iraq keeping |
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Iraq from turning into another Iran for decades.
Until the neocons and oil men decided to go 'civilize' them....white mans burden, doncha know, and Oh, all that nice 'free oil' to steal. Whoooopss!! didn't quite work out for them
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