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To: Irontank
Asked if his government would institute harsh Islamic Shari'a law, al-Jaafari replied: "Yes … that is only natural in a country that is populated mainly by Muslims."

During his visit to Iran, al-Jaafari signed several bilateral accords. One accord was a military alliance wherein Iran will provide arms to Iraq; Iran will provide border security between the two countries; and the two countries will share intelligence. "This is a new chapter in relations with Iraq," enthused Iranian Vice President Mohammad Reza Aref during al-Jaafari's visit. Agha Panayi, an Iranian intelligence official, has offered a similarly enthusiastic assessment: "Throughout Iraq, the people we supported are in power."


Iraqi Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari made a pilgrimage to Iran, where he laid a wreath at a shrine to the late, unlamented Ayatollah Khomeini, the revolutionary theocrat responsible for the abduction and imprisonment of U.S. citizens for 444 days in the late 1970s. Ibrahim al-Jaafari, a Shiite Muslim who lived in Iranian exile during the 1980s, heads the radical Islamic Dawa Party, which is closely aligned to the Iranian regime.

Dawa is politically aligned with the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq (SCIRI), a radical group that enjoys a close relationship with Iran's revolutionary Mullahs

commented Ambassador Galbraith, "that the United States, which, among other reasons, invaded Iraq to help bring liberal democracy to the Middle East, will play a decisive role in establishing its second Shiite Islamic state."

The U.S. Bill of Rights offers unqualified guarantees regarding vital rights such as the right to freedom of speech, press, religion, and assembly. This is demonstrated in phrases such as "Congress shall make no law … abridging freedom of speech or of the press." But the Iraqi Constitution "grants" these rights in one phrase while taking them away with a subsequent clause in the constitution.
THAT CLAUSE STATES: NO LAW SHALL CONTRADICT ISLAM.

Iraqis have "freedom of religion" guaranteed in Article 20, but Article 22 states, "all thought based on … sectarianism [and] accusations of apostasy … are forbidden."

building Islamo-Fascism, rather than fighting it.

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History repeats itself.

The Persians around 400BC...used its enemies from the west,the Greeks as mercenaries to maintain and expand Persia

The Persians around 2005....uses its enemies from the west, The Americans, as troops to maintain and expand Persia

But at least the Greeks got paid. Its time to use this Iraqi constitutional deadlock to make changes in that document so that the our troops can be positive that they are fighting for REAL Iraqi Freedom - not Iraqi Islam.
37 posted on 08/30/2005 5:07:08 PM PDT by TomasUSMC (FIGHT LIKE WW2, FINISH LIKE WW2. FIGHT LIKE NAM, FINISH LIKE NAM.)
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To: TomasUSMC
"The Persians around 400BC...used its enemies from the west,the Greeks as mercenaries to maintain and expand Persia

The Persians around 2005....uses its enemies from the west, The Americans, as troops to maintain and expand Persia."

I like a man who uses history and knows classical history. It is amazing how many situations of today you can compare to the Peloponnesian Wars. Thucydides should be required reading.

http://classics.mit.edu/Thucydides/pelopwar.html
40 posted on 08/30/2005 6:02:20 PM PDT by fallujah-nuker (Atque ubi solitudinem faciunt, pacem appelant)
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