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Sunnis now want to join Iraq politics
The Christian Science Monitor ^ | 3/24/2005 | Jill Carroll

Posted on 03/24/2005 6:02:45 PM PST by texaspirate

BAGHDAD - Two years after war dramatically changed Iraq (news - web sites)'s political landscape, the former ruling minority Sunnis are developing plans to participate in a government formed by elections they boycotted. In a significant shift, several Sunni groups that hitherto shunned the political process met last weekend to create a unified front and set of demands that they will present to the Shiite and Kurdish leaders now hammering out a new government.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: election; iraq; iraqidemocracy; iraqielection; rebuildingiraq; secondanniversary; sunnis
I guess the Sunnis finally decided which direction the wind is blosing
1 posted on 03/24/2005 6:02:51 PM PST by texaspirate
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To: texaspirate

blosing = blowing


2 posted on 03/24/2005 6:03:35 PM PST by texaspirate (Texas, learn it, live it, love it.)
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To: texaspirate

"blosing" half hosing half blowing, I like it.


3 posted on 03/24/2005 6:07:59 PM PST by FreedomSurge
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To: FreedomSurge

Now that you put it that way, I like it too. When they discovered which way the wind was blowing, they were hosed.


4 posted on 03/24/2005 6:11:18 PM PST by texaspirate (Texas, learn it, live it, love it.)
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To: texaspirate

I thought the MSM told us the Sunnis would never participate in the new Iraqi government?


5 posted on 03/24/2005 6:12:19 PM PST by mainepatsfan
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To: texaspirate

It must be Bush's fault. Oh, wait. This is good news. It can't have anything to do with Bush.


6 posted on 03/24/2005 6:21:41 PM PST by spinestein (Do I really need the sarcasm tag?)
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To: texaspirate

They got tired of looking in with their noses pressed up against the glass, watching the Iraqi government form without them.

Be assured that the entire Arab world is observing this and taking detailed notes.


7 posted on 03/24/2005 6:25:04 PM PST by spinestein
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To: mainepatsfan
I thought the MSM told us the Sunnis would never participate in the new Iraqi government?

They did? Wow, please post a link.

8 posted on 03/24/2005 6:28:56 PM PST by Doe Eyes
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To: Mears

bump


9 posted on 03/24/2005 7:57:50 PM PST by Mears ("Call me irresponsible".)
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To: texaspirate

This is the end of the insurgency.


10 posted on 03/24/2005 8:37:23 PM PST by WOSG (Liberating Iraq - http://freedomstruth.blogspot.com)
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