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I will also have to remember to bring a dictionary, VDH always send me looking up words at least 3 times in his articles.
As usual great piece................
Most of us have a lot less problems with the moslims in Iraq, than we do with CAIR, muzzy taxi drivers and store clerks in Minneapolis telling us how we are supposed to live, when they have come here since they can’t stand to live in the sh*tholes they have created in their own lands.
There are dozens of tragic ironies in Iraq. The fostering of democracy by a Republican president only alienated his dour realist base. Yet his idealism did not even win as recompense faint sympathy from supposedly Wilsonian Democratic opponents.
I guess it’s true that, no good deed goes unpunished.
But such a legitimate and necessary rationale depends also upon general empathy for the Middle East. We are embarking on this new course in the hopes that the American lives sacrificed and our treasure spent are for a friendly people that appreciates our efforts. I think they do, and that the record of brave Iraqi reformers is worth the effort — both for the sake of our future security and so as to adopt a new moral posture that respects Arab self-determination.
From Turkey
TURKEY: SECULARISTS PREPARE STREET RALLY AGAINST GUL’S PRESIDENTIAL BID
http://www.adnki.com/index_2Level_English.php?cat=Politics&loid=8.0.409186216&par=0
Istanbul, 27 April (AKI) - Turkish secularist groups have scheduled another mass demonstration on Sunday, this time to protest the likelihood that the current foreign minister Abdullah Gul, and a leading member of the Islamic-rooted ruling party will be elected president of Turkey. The planned demonstration follows a rally in Ankara on 14 April in which hundreds of thousands of people took to the streets against what was then thought to be the intention of prime minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan to run as president.
Erdogan on Tuesday after consulting his governing AKP (Justice and Development Party) announced he would not stand and that Gul would be the party’s presidential candidate.
Secularist groups also oppose Gul’s bid citing the foreign minister’s shared pro-Islamic views with Erdogan. They warn that an Islamic rooted president would threaten the country’s secular modern identity as moulded by its modern-day founder Mustafa Kemal Ataturk in the 1920s.
Sunday’s rally which will be held in Istanbul’s Caglayan Square is supported by the Kemalist Thought Organization (ADD) and over 100 other associations. Demonstrators will march under the slogan “Unite for the Republic Before It Is Too Late”.
As with the Ankara protest, a large number of women who are uneasy over the AKP’s stance on women’s place in society, are expected to attend Sunday’s rally.
If Gul were elected the next president of Turkey, his wife who wears the Islamic headscarf would present the state with a protocol problems since Turkish laws prohibit the wearing of such Islamic dress in public buildings and at official functions.
On Friday parliamentarians were scheduled to begin the presidential vote but the process could be threatened by procedural disputes.
Thanks for the ping.