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Iraq Celebrates First Official Christmas
AP VIA CBN.COM ^ | December 25, 2008 | By Jim Heintz

Posted on 12/25/2008 9:18:26 AM PST by GonzoII

In his homily on Thursday, Chaldean Cardinal Emmanuel III Delly praised the establishment of Christmas as an official holiday as a step toward easing tensions. "I thank the government for giving chances to all to serve each other for the general benefit, and I thank it too for making this day an official holiday where we pray to God to make us trust each other as brothers," he said at the Christmas Mass before several dozen worshippers in the small chapel of a Baghdad monastery....A senior Shiite cleric, Ammar al-Hakim, attended the Mass flanked by bodyguards in a gesture of cooperation with Christians.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: christmas; christmasiniraq; iraq; iraqichristians

1 posted on 12/25/2008 9:18:26 AM PST by GonzoII
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To: GonzoII

all the Saddam look a-likes were hired to play Santa at the local out door markets around in Iraq.


2 posted on 12/25/2008 9:21:28 AM PST by MAD-AS-HELL (How does one win over terrorists? KILL them with UNKINDNESS)
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To: GonzoII

Great news.


3 posted on 12/25/2008 9:27:43 AM PST by FreeReign
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To: GonzoII

Thank You, God. May the light of Jesus Christ shine upon them.


4 posted on 12/25/2008 9:33:53 AM PST by Faith
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AMERICAN LIBERATORS


MERRY CHRISTMAS
AMERICAN LIBERATORS


5 posted on 12/25/2008 9:36:21 AM PST by I see my hands (_8(|)
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To: GonzoII
The left will regard this as a step BACKWARDS for Iraq!

God Bless our TROOPS and their C-in-C!!

6 posted on 12/25/2008 9:48:20 AM PST by PISANO
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To: GonzoII

But I thought there was no religious freedom in Muslim countries

Wait, did I see a Christmas tree and Mass in Islamabad last winter too?


7 posted on 12/25/2008 10:01:24 AM PST by MadIsh32 (The token Muslim :))
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To: GonzoII

Our military is awesome! God bless them all.


8 posted on 12/25/2008 10:18:47 AM PST by FES0844 (FES0844)
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To: All

To our troops who follow the example of sacrifice, Blessed Christmas:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=StdeSKFJjVk


9 posted on 12/25/2008 10:21:17 AM PST by AliVeritas
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To: GonzoII

Merry Christmas to President Bush and all our troops.

Special news on Christmas Day for all of those who sacrificed so much to make this possible.


10 posted on 12/25/2008 10:25:36 AM PST by Bush 100 Percent
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To: MadIsh32

Love your tag line!


11 posted on 12/25/2008 10:50:28 AM PST by icwhatudo
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To: PISANO
God Bless our TROOPS and their C-in-C!!

Yes and after Jan 20 God Protect our troops from their C-in-C.

12 posted on 12/25/2008 11:10:40 AM PST by tbpiper
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To: GonzoII

Can we move to Iraq before Christmas is outlawed here?

Merry Christmas


13 posted on 12/25/2008 11:12:56 AM PST by bray (Gov Palin isn't corrupt enough for DC)
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To: GonzoII

How wonderful.


14 posted on 12/25/2008 12:07:52 PM PST by Niuhuru (I'm A Racist and Proud Of It!)
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To: bray
"Can we move to Iraq before Christmas is outlawed here?

Merry Christmas"

LOL.

Merry Christmas

15 posted on 12/25/2008 12:19:41 PM PST by GonzoII ("That they may be one...Father")
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To: MadIsh32

only in muslim countries where hundreds of thousands of American troops are present and thus the muslim’s fear of death is greater than their will to impose islam upon the infidels.


16 posted on 12/25/2008 1:39:07 PM PST by kahana
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