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Fallujah Emerging As Islamic Mini-State (posted 5/25/2004)
AP ^ | Tue, May 25, 2004 | HAMZA HENDAWI

Posted on 05/25/2004 1:43:08 PM PDT by Eurotwit

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To: Brad Cloven

The positive impact was the killing of over 1,000 of these scumbags and the destruction of tons of their ammunition. There are many errors within this story including the completely false allegation that we will be leaving Iraq soon.

You are under the impression I believed we had turned them all into Presbyterians?


21 posted on 05/25/2004 1:58:29 PM PDT by justshutupandtakeit (America's Enemies: foreign and domestic RATmedia agree Bush must be destroyed.)
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To: swarthyguy

Do you believe EVERYTHING the RATmedia publishes without ANY reflection upon its truth or why it lies?


22 posted on 05/25/2004 2:00:10 PM PDT by justshutupandtakeit (America's Enemies: foreign and domestic RATmedia agree Bush must be destroyed.)
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To: Eurotwit

I suspect we are just pacifying Falluga until after the election. Once W is re-elected it will be time get the can opener out and unleash that whoop-a$$ that they have coming.


23 posted on 05/25/2004 2:00:26 PM PDT by BobinIL
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To: Eurotwit

This is what Iranian regime wants.
We need to stop it fast.


24 posted on 05/25/2004 2:00:41 PM PDT by nuconvert ("America will never be intimidated by thugs and assassins." ( Azadi baraye Iran)
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To: plain talk

Talibanic/Sharia rule in Fallujah will not be tolerated indefinitely. For right now, we must contain it. At some point, Iraqi central government will crack down on it.


25 posted on 05/25/2004 2:01:57 PM PDT by NutCrackerBoy
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To: justshutupandtakeit

HAHAH! More of that moronic kill the messenger and no points to make, so you make fun of the article.

How do you feel about the US being the midwife of a little Taliban in Iraq. Peachy, isn't it?


26 posted on 05/25/2004 2:02:17 PM PDT by swarthyguy
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To: Eurotwit
Fallujah Emerging As Islamic Mini-State...

Aren't we now developing "mini-nukes"?


27 posted on 05/25/2004 2:02:31 PM PDT by Bon mots
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To: swarthyguy

Frankly, I don't like the current situation. Yet, there were really no good alternatives. A full on assault might have destroyed the prospects for the June 30th handover and beyond. Then again, it might not have. These are hard decisions.

I still think though, as I have said previously, that a succesfull transition to a democratic Iraq, trumps a localised set back like Fallujah as far as the Jihadists are conserned.


28 posted on 05/25/2004 2:08:06 PM PDT by Eurotwit
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To: Eurotwit

Wet or dry? Dry, sounds like, but who knows how the polling will go.


29 posted on 05/25/2004 2:10:06 PM PDT by RightWhale (Theorems link concepts; proofs establish links)
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To: swarthyguy

As another poster informed you we have been the midwife of nothing new there. Fallujah has always been that way and we did not slaughter the militias to change it. Apparently you don't understand what was occuring there or why.

It is revolting to watch you clowns flounder around trying to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory and have to resort to the AP to do it. What's next something from CNN or Chris Mathews?

When you kill all the enemies who will fight and destroy lots of their toys you HAVE WON and no amount of RATmedia distortion can change that. If they want more the Marines will be happy to provide it.


30 posted on 05/25/2004 2:13:01 PM PDT by justshutupandtakeit (America's Enemies: foreign and domestic RATmedia agree Bush must be destroyed.)
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To: nuconvert

Iran wants a Sunni Islamic mini-state? Not likely.


31 posted on 05/25/2004 2:14:48 PM PDT by justshutupandtakeit (America's Enemies: foreign and domestic RATmedia agree Bush must be destroyed.)
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To: Eurotwit

ANd if, after the handover, we decide to take Falluja, and the Irakis veto it, then what. Anyway, whatever might have happened with an assault are now moot. Ain't gonna happen.

And how do you see the prospects of democracy in Falluja. Think women candidates or those running on a Beer ticket will live more than a few days.

Can't do democracy when huge swathes of the country are not under US control. Let's stop fooling ourselves.

The only thing we care about now is stability. Elections will be upto whatever happens after the handover.

Which absolutely no one can tell you who or what is taking over.


32 posted on 05/25/2004 2:14:58 PM PDT by swarthyguy
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To: Eurotwit
"We must capitalize on our victory over the Americans and implement Islamic sharia laws."

They think that they've "won" because of aid and comfort by AgitProp, Michael Moore, and more...

33 posted on 05/25/2004 2:15:56 PM PDT by weegee (NO BLOOD FOR RATINGS. CNN ignored torture & murder in Saddam's Iraq to keep their Baghdad Bureau.)
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To: Eurotwit

I have a bad feeling that many mini-Islamic city-states will emerge in Iraq after the US hands control over.


34 posted on 05/25/2004 2:17:10 PM PDT by TomGuy (Clintonites have such good hind-sight because they had their heads up their hind-ends 8 years.)
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To: Steve_Seattle

Yes.

It would be blasted on the front pages and across every network news program--if it would help the Dems. Since it won't help them, it won't get shown, except for some mention on FoxNews, maybe.


35 posted on 05/25/2004 2:20:25 PM PDT by TomGuy (Clintonites have such good hind-sight because they had their heads up their hind-ends 8 years.)
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To: Eurotwit
...though it could be that some people are simply afraid of confronting armed men.

Ya think?

36 posted on 05/25/2004 2:20:52 PM PDT by Last Dakotan
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To: Eurotwit

I think we are close to the point where a hard line Islamic state is no longer acceptable in the world. Most of these people seem to want an "Islamic bomb," and 9/11 showed us that they'll use it when they get it.


37 posted on 05/25/2004 2:21:39 PM PDT by Sam Cree (Democrats are herd animals)
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To: TomGuy

It's not a bad feeling, it's reality. Bush is severely and fatally misunderestimating Iraqis, Arabs, Muslims, and Middle-Easterenrs in general. They hate us. Their religion is twisted and evil. And they want us dead. They're poorly educated, fascist, misogynist, and not open to reason. Iraq will still be a sewer when "our work is done". Bush blinked and turned tail in Fallujah and they know it.


38 posted on 05/25/2004 2:22:02 PM PDT by over3Owithabrain
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To: over3Owithabrain

>>Bush blinked and turned tail in Fallujah and they know it.


No no no we showed 'em. We blasted their innocent psyches with ACDC and Van Halen.


39 posted on 05/25/2004 2:24:37 PM PDT by swarthyguy
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To: nuconvert

Send in Janet Reno and a handful of tanks.


40 posted on 05/25/2004 2:25:57 PM PDT by get'emall (Kofi Annan: Lawn Jockey on the Arab Street.)
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