ELAINE: Your views on race relations are fascinating. You really should do an op-ed piece for the Times.
JERRY: Um, um, Look to the cookie Elaine. Look to the cookie.
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.
I hope Bergen is better than Middlesex.
I wish I could be there to vote for the RINO(ducking from projectiles). Anyone is better than that schmuck Menendez.
I love this commercial.
"Canada can take care of North Korea. They're not busy".
Hysterical.
I believe he fully intends to, and right on the Senate floor if he can pull it off.
The way things are going, better make that Dec. 8th.:)
I love this ad too.
I can't believe the RNC did it.
Well I believe that's right.
I didn't grow up in NJ, but no one I know says joisey. I certainly never have.
Can't these morons ever stop talking about race?
ELAINE: Your views on race relations are fascinating. You really should do an op-ed piece for the Times.
JERRY: Um, um, Look to the cookie Elaine. Look to the cookie.
Have you met Playboy bunnies?
(That's splitting hares!) HAHAHAHA!
LOL!
It's all they have. And they're even wrong about that.
I have never said Joisey either and was born there, lived there for 31 years(besides my post to you previously :).
It is just a funny stereotype that is alive and well in every other area of the US when the Garden State comes up.
Please dismiss my weak attempt at stereotypical humor.
LOL!
Geez, Victims are above criticism?
When do I get to jump on THAT bandwagon?
Certainly not here on FR. (Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition) 8']
LOL...great conversation in the bakery :)
PEACE
The best part of that was when he started complaining about his stomach ache and said "Louis Farrakhan must be down there!"
Apologies for my sensitivity about it.
My husband did grow up here and I never got his anger when NJ was the butt of jokes. (He grew up on Bayonne... a double cross to bear!) After we were married and I lived here for a while I understood it.
Maybe that's why I don't like The Sopranos. Hubby does tho, go figure!
Ahhhhh, Fuhgeddaboutit!
I think there is a transcript right here on FR.
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