[NCjim]

Another Shiitey day, I guess.

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[Texas Eagle]

Wow. They must've really liked to do crossword puzzles.

[nuconvert]

"If we don’t resist by all means now, they’ll close our offices and ban Friday prayers."

Spoken like a democrat.

[samtheman]

There's got to be a way to play the Sunni's and Shi'ites against each other. Maybe threaten the Shi'ites that we're leaving soon, and that before we go we're going to make sure the Sunni's are back in power. That ought to calm them down a little.

[Azzurri]

Maybe we should offer them free subscriptions to the National Enquirer.

[crz]

Send in the Kurds. Seems the rest aint got the guts to stand and fight. Tell the Kurds they can have those towns that are giving us fits if they put an end to this bull.

[sheik yerbouty]

Tough shi'ite!

[bayourod]

Kill Sadr now. He encourages, plans and directs bombing attacks on US soldiers. It is inexcusable to allow him to live. He is the OBL of Iraq.

Kill him before he gets dug in to some hole from which he can still coordinate bombing attacks. His life isn't worth the life of one American soldier.

[McGavin999]

Of the approximately 15,000,000 Shiias Sadar contols perhaps 10,000-20,000. This guys isn't the serious threat that the papers are making him out to be.

[KellyAdmirer]

I fail to see how closing down a "zealously anti-US" newspaper could be a bad thing. Let them plan their terrorist attacks by smoke signals or something. The only people reading such rags already hate the US, it's not like we're going to suddenly turn US-loving Iraqis into terrorists by doing it or something.

I'm still waiting for the big crackdown after the Fallujah incident, hope I don't have to wait much longer.

[Sola Veritas]

Abbas al-Robai, the paper’s editor, said: "If we don’t resist by all means now, they’ll close our offices and ban Friday prayers."

Hey Abbas, thanks for the suggestion. That is exactly what we (the U.S.) should do. You folks don't seem to know the difference between "prayer" and "rioting". I wonder if they mean the same thing in Arabic? Also, you are a conquered people and NOT entitled to a "free press." It is our (the U.S.) intention to give you freedom, but on OUR terms not yours. When you have become sufficiently Western, then you can be trusted with true freedom. Until that time you are just insurgents and terrorists and should be treated as such.

Whatever, notice that first it was Sunni's causing problems, now it is Shiites. Notice that the one connecting part is that they are hard core Muslims. Time for us to stop being PC and admit that this is a war between the West and Islam (I don't mean a Christian crusade).

Western culture and real Islam (which they incorrectly refer to as "radical") can not peacefully coexist. ANY anti-american rhetoric by anyone, including "clergy", should be treated as aiding and abetting terrorism. In fact the perpetrators should be treated as terrorists.

Until we go the "extra step" and unequivocally link Mideastern terror to Islam, we will not succeed.