Posted on 10/25/2006 8:25:52 AM PDT by MNJohnnie
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1725292/posts?page=1
Iraqi Government Plans to Demobilize Illegal Militias
WASHINGTON, Oct. 24, 2006 – The Iraqi government has plans to demobilize all illegal militias, including radical cleric Muqtada al-Sadr’s so-called “Mahdi Army,” the senior U.S. diplomat in Iraq said today.
Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki “has agreed to getting rid of the militias,” U.S. Ambassador to Iraq Zalmay Khalilzad told reporters at a Baghdad news conference.
Illegal militias that commit violence and murder need to be dealt with, Khalilzad said, noting the Iraqi government recognizes that fact.
Maliki wants to demobilize all the militias, including al-Sadr’s, Khalilzad said. Yet, he noted, U.S. officials don’t have direct contact with Sadr, although there is some interaction with some of Sadr’s representatives in the Iraqi Assembly.
Khalilzad said he believes that an integrated, political approach is the best way to try to convince militia leaders to disband their men and stack arms.
However, Maliki doesn’t rule out the use of force to coerce the militias to disband, Khalilzad said. “We will see what happens,” he added.
Khalilzad said he believes the Iraqi government is taking the right path in addressing the militia issue. Iraq’s prime minister is anxious for Iraqis to assume more security roles and responsibilities, to include dealing the problem of militias, the ambassador said.
Meanwhile, U.S., coalition and Iraqi security forces “are actively tracking, targeting, detaining people who are operating in death squads, and their leadership, who are breaking the law,” Army Gen. George W. Casey Jr, commander of Multinational Force Iraq, said.
When Iraq’s government zeroes in on the militia issue, then the Iraqi security forces will become the dominant security forces in the country, Casey predicted.
“I think it will happen,” he said.
Not really.
HOO-RAY for Missouri!
No clue.
OH, you have got THAT right! lol
Many happy returns Johnnie!
Rush just said he will play the Diane Sawyer soundbite later.
I want Rush to talk some more about the Manhattan Project for Iraq & Islam like he mentioned last week.
Hello A.Hun
What did the people in your state say about the Ad?
Hey StoneWall!
How are you?
Michael J. Fox ad a powerful cell
By Neil Steinberg, The Chicago Sun-Times; October 25, 2006 Wednesday
Have you seen the TV spot Michael J. Fox taped to support Claire McCaskill, the Democrat running for U.S. Senate in Missouri? It's been running during the World Series or you can watch it on YouTube.
The actor, who has Parkinson's Disease, sits looking directly into the camera, his shoulders rocking and face twitching as he delivers a short message beginning, "As you might know, I care deeply about stem cell research. . . ."
It is his bravest performance, a stark rebuke to a country that allows science to be held hostage to a narrow reading of a certain faith. It is outrageous that stem cell research, which will someday bring advances to numerous ailments, is hobbled by those who put the welfare of a handful of cell clumps the humanity of which is purely notional above the welfare of every single person living in the world now, plus those yet to be.
Untold millions will suffer in the name of those who will never feel at all -- I'm referring to the stem cells, not those opposed to the research. Though, if the shoe fits. . . .
Doing fine, hope you are well!
Was it good?
I sure hope so!
BTW congrats on the Cardinals win!
"I think MJFox's response to the whole mess was professional... "I'm just glad people are talking about stem cell research" or something along those lines." ~ fhlh
You need to develop some critical thinking skills. When the RATS drag a red herring (stem cells) across the trail (cloning), you go sniffing off in the irrelevant direction they knew you (the easily distracted) would mindlessly go.
Rush deliberately exposed their red herring so that the lemmings in MO, et.al., wouldn't sniff over the cliff.
Every time he blows their cover, he knows in advance that he is making himself a target. Get with the program.
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