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Appeasers already?

Iraq Council discusses deal to end Shi'ite violence (by Not Prosecuting Al-Sadr!)
			Posted by Mark Felton On 04/07/2004 11:07:18 AM CDT with 7 comments reuters ^ \| 4/7/04 \| Reuters BAGHDAD, April 7 (Reuters) - Iraq's U.S.-installed Governing Council has discussed a proposal not to prosecute the rebel cleric Moqtada al-Sadr for murder if he agrees to halt a Shi'ite uprising, council members said on Wednesday. They told Reuters after meeting to discuss the violence sweeping Iraq that using more force against the young cleric and his followers could lead to more civilian casualties and bolster support for him. "Iraq could refrain from pursuing the arrest warrant in return for Moqtada renouncing violence," said one Shi'ite council member, who was speaking on condition of anonymity.

There are always appeasers in every nation. And I know there is a tendency to be very angry at Iraqi's who think that way. But all you have to do is look no futher than a current senate leader and brother of a former president to find appeasers here in the USA. Kennedy,Carter and Kerry are appeasers...

Why would we think that there would not be a lot of them in Iraq?

I would invite you to look at the number of appeasers in our own country during our revolutionary war. The Torries in the USA nearly equaled the revolutionaries.

The liberal press will play the Iraqi appeasers up big time. But that does not mean they will prevail. There was a lot of discussion about surrender in our own continental congress. It was not covered in thte history books. Benedict Arnold thought the appeasers were a majority and going to win. So do the appeasers in Iraq.

ITtis to be expected... and both our military and civilian leadership has certainly anticipated what is happening. Smart leaders anticipate and prepare for every eventuality. They just can't know which of the things they anticipate will actually happen.

Most of the militant Muslims believe that Allah would not allow the destruction of a Mosque .... especially with them in it. When we blow one a Mosque and the people in it the Militants can have just one of 2 conclusions. Allah did not think them worthy of saving or Allah does not exist. Once Religious zealots come to doubt their religious beliefs they are easily defeated.

They were absolutely certain we would not and could not bomb a Mosque. The fact that we did will shake their resolve and their faith in Allah.