Posted on 05/17/2005 7:01:54 PM PDT by jmc1969
Camp Fallujah, Iraq -- The first democratically-elected city council of Fallujah held its inaugural meeting today at the Civil-Military Operations Center in Fallujah.
The 20-member council met for approximately two hours, during which time they elected the chairman, vice chairman and secretary of the council. Imams, sheiks, engineers, lawyers, educators, administrators and businessmen are among those who make up the council.
Sheik Khalid Hammoud Mahal al-Joumaily, newly-elected chairman, said “We are happy with the free democratic process which led to a successful election.”
Mohamed Hussain Alzobai, representative of the Provincial Council, attended the meeting and offered words of encouragement to the Fallujah City Council. “You are the ones selected to represent the people of Fallujah and we hope your intent is good for the people of Fallujah,” said Alzobai. “You must do what you can to encourage the people to vote in the upcoming election.
I hope they do a better job than San Diego (the nearest big city to my neck of the woods) has done...
The insurgency is already done...
Oh never mind!
Of course, this will be completely ignored by the seditious MSM.
Given the fact Sunnis and Shia are at each others throats in a way we have never seen I wouldn't say the insurgency is done. Zarqawi is as close to success and as close to failure as he has ever been and the same goes for Iraq as a whole. We are at a pinnicale point in time, the jihadists are increasing to their greatest level ever the killing of both Sunnis and Shia to push them toward over the edge into civil war. The next several months until the election are going to be some of the hardest, not for the US military, but for Iraqis. If the Sunnis vote and get representitives in government in December the insurgency is done. ol'Zarq can do all the killing he wants, but the Sunni community as a whole would turn against all the foreign fighters at that point.
This Summer will be mostly training Iraqi security forces and keeping civil war from breaking out. However, this fall and winter will be what destorys almost all support for the insurgency with the Constitution and the election.
And btw...there won't be a civil war.
We are in a low intensity civil war right now, the foreign scum are trying to crank it up into a high intensity civil war. I have been keeping pretty good track of the sitution so I can tell when its gotten bad and it is quite dangerous right now. Al-Qaeda has upped the stakes in Iraq by starting to kill Sunni clerics with terrorists posed in Iraqi military uniforms. I wouldn't be suprised if Zarqawi doesn't start bombing Sunni mosques to blame it on the Shia.
If the Iraqi public realize who is doing this (and I think many of them are) then things will be fine, if they don't things might not be fine and I don't even like to consider that sitution. If we get past the next couple months with training Iraqi forces and get the Constitution done on time and it is accepted we have won. The only card Zarqawi has left is civil war and the chance of that will only remain for the next several weeks if things are done right.
This is defintely "feel-good" news and makes me believe that our servicement have not died in vain.
Now all they need is C-SPAN to televise the proceedings to every TV in Iraq so people can see democracy in action.
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