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Iraqi PM issues ultimatum to militants (Disarm or fight us and the Americans)
The Toronto Star ^
| January 10, 2007
| Steven R. Hurst
Posted on 01/10/2007 4:27:58 PM PST by jrooney
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posted on
01/10/2007 4:28:01 PM PST
by
jrooney
To: jrooney
Good to hear finally. With the additional forces GW is sending into Iraq, Sadr's days are numbered. A new dawn is coming to Iraq. Disarm, surrender or die.
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posted on
01/10/2007 4:31:22 PM PST
by
jrooney
( Hold your cards close.)
To: jrooney
Dems must be screaming right now. Anyone checking out Du?
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posted on
01/10/2007 4:32:21 PM PST
by
calex59
To: calex59
Hopefully they are all on suicide watch.
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posted on
01/10/2007 4:33:12 PM PST
by
jrooney
( Hold your cards close.)
To: jrooney; jmc1969
Also, Sistani has come down on the side of a crackdown, or at least on the side of disarming all forces not under government control. So these political steps, frankly some very tough steps, do set the stage for either a showdown or a way forward. It will be interesting to see if al Sadr continues to support his militia or if he resigns himself to accepting the governments authority.
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posted on
01/10/2007 4:34:07 PM PST
by
elhombrelibre
(Saddam was against Iraq's liberation before the Democrats and MSM.)
To: jrooney
it's time to get Ethiopian on their a$$e$
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posted on
01/10/2007 4:34:23 PM PST
by
verum ago
(The Iranian Space Agency: set phasers to jihad!)
To: calex59
"Anyone checking out Du?"
Not me!
I already took a shower today!
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posted on
01/10/2007 4:35:12 PM PST
by
Bigh4u2
(Denial is the first requirement to be a liberal)
To: jrooney
Sounds like the Democrates plan is now backfiring on them!
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posted on
01/10/2007 4:35:27 PM PST
by
stockpirate
(John Kerry & FBI files ==> http://www.freerepublic.com/~stockpirate/)
To: jrooney
Well, this is there absolute last chance to build a real functioning country--not a thugaucracy.
If the Iraqi's don't have the good sense to take advantage of this opportunity, then f*%k them! We'll simply buy our oil from the next 'Saddam Hussein' and watch as their cries of pain fall on our deaf ears.
With that said, I hope the Iraqi's choose wisely. They deserve to live in freedom and with dignity. And I hope to count them amongst the functioning human rights based democracies in the near future.
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posted on
01/10/2007 4:36:02 PM PST
by
Firefox1
Empty rhetoric. He has had more than enough time to deal with the militias, and they have spiraled out of control. Get rid of Maliki. Allawi could take care of things.
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posted on
01/10/2007 4:36:38 PM PST
by
oolatec
To: elhombrelibre
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posted on
01/10/2007 4:37:01 PM PST
by
JimFreedom
(My patience is growing thin)
To: stockpirate
I think the Iraqi governement that wants peace and democracy realizes our democratic majority party would rather see them all slaughtered than succeed. In Iraq they know what us conservatives know, the donk leadership and many of its members are their enemy too.
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posted on
01/10/2007 4:37:47 PM PST
by
jrooney
( Hold your cards close.)
To: jrooney
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posted on
01/10/2007 4:39:02 PM PST
by
SE Mom
(Proud mom of an Iraq war combat vet)
To: jrooney
I think you may very well have a point there about the dems.
And while I have not approved of several things Bush has done in the past, I am liking his most recent response to the dems.
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posted on
01/10/2007 4:54:37 PM PST
by
stockpirate
(John Kerry & FBI files ==> http://www.freerepublic.com/~stockpirate/)
To: jrooney
I think they would be fools to disarm, but they should see that using their arms the way they have been will no longer advance their ball.
To: jrooney
Mahdi Army militiamen they must surrender their arms... I've been reading Julius Caesar's Commentaries. After defeating a Gallic tribe, he would demand they surrender their arms, and provide hostages. If Sadr has any kin, they should be taken into custody.
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posted on
01/10/2007 5:04:54 PM PST
by
Plutarch
To: jrooney
High time. Mookie is now caught between his former ally Maliki and his present Iranian supporters. The latter will not want him to give up his army and the former will entice him with formal governmental power if he does so. It's a deal he'd be wise to take, but I don't see it much in character.
This could well be the end of one of the most historic mosques in all of Islam if Mookie decides to fight it out there and dares Maliki to risk the wrath of every Shi'ite in the country. That's not a small risk. Were terrorists trying to hijack Catholicism to take up residence in the Castel Sant'Angelo, would we wreck history by blowing it up?
Hell yes we would. Anyone who doesn't believe it can Google up Monte Cassino.
To: jrooney
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posted on
01/10/2007 5:16:56 PM PST
by
Mo1
(PLEASE SUPPORT FREE REPUBLIC AND DONATE)
To: jrooney
Wouldn't it be a riot if the change of Congress to Democratic control was the thing that convinced the Iraqi government that it was time to get down to business! As long as it Dubya and the GOP they figured they could just sorta work at it and maybe show some occasional success and that would be enough. But now with Teddy's bunch in control they need to straighten up fly right!
To: jrooney
Iraq's prime minister has told Mahdi Army militiamen they must surrender their arms or face an all-out assault by U.S.-backed Iraqi forces, senior Iraqi officials said Wednesday, revealing a pledge Washington wanted to hear as American and Iraqi troops prepared a fresh operation to end the bloody sectarian war gripping Baghdad.Powerful stuff so look for the RATs to undermine it. Tick tock, GWB, tick tock.
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posted on
01/10/2007 5:57:05 PM PST
by
NonValueAdded
(Saddam is Dead! Bush's Fault. [Pray for our patriot brother, 68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub.])
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