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.
Wow Thats great
No, but my cheek got stuck to the floor.
Who the heck in MO is worth cloning, anyway?
Yes, that role is why I liked him so much for so long.
An actor to the max. What a grandstanding little liar. MJF can go...
LOL
You bad!
Hello,
Say what????
Glad to be here, MOgirl
Think we should take that personally????
Oh, I want to see that!
Happy birthday, you young whippersnapper, you!
"MJF got what he deserved when Rush pointed out he was whoring out his illness for a sham cause." ~ A.Hun
Another one of what Ann Coulter called the DemocRAT'S "infallible victims"that can't be criticized.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1725607/posts?page=58#58
You know, I already loved Sup, but I really appreciate him doing this.
And I will add that this commercial addressed the issue of Amendment 2, THE CLONING BILL, not the lie that Michael J. Fox perpetuates.
Think I figured out the keyword ape.
To: Checkers
you probably didnt listen to his reasons. I really dont care what you think. but I aint gona ask you ask you leave, I like to troll by the mush limpole threads myself.
14 posted on 10/24/2006 4:55:21 PM CDT by Kewlhand`tek (Those that can't , Teach. Those that can't teach , Report)
USA TODAY ; October 25, 2006 Wednesday
The Fox ads are part of a larger effort by Democrats who are using the issue as another weapon against Republicans already hurting from an unpopular war in Iraq and Bush's low approval ratings.
Democrats and interest groups are using ads, campaign events and celebrities in at least 20 House, Senate and governor races to push for more federal funding for embryonic stem cell research.
Fox's dramatic ads are "very effective" with suburban voters, seniors and parents, says Evan Tracey of the non-partisan Campaign Media Analysis Group, which tracks political advertising. "It puts the Republicans on the wrong side of hope."
Other TV spots:
*Singer Sheryl Crow, a Missouri native and breast cancer survivor, appears in an ad (www.missouricures.com) sponsored by the Missouri Coalition for Lifesaving Cures, which backs a state ballot initiative to permit research on embryonic stem cells.
*In Arizona, an ad (www .dccc.org/multimedia) sponsored by the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee features the granddaughter of Morris Udall, a popular congressman who died of Parkinson's disease in 1998. Loren Udall, who has the autoimmune disease lupus, says that "by voting in Congress to restrict stem cell research, (Republican Rep.) J.D. Hayworth has played politics with people's lives."
Ann is always right, isn't she!
Well, Happy happy!!
:)
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