Posted on 11/02/2006 9:00:14 AM PST by MNJohnnie
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New Iraq is working hard to get rid of the old ways GulfNews.com ^ | 10/25/2006 | Amir Taheri
Posted on 10/25/2006 1:32:24 PM CDT by baseball_fan
snip...Since liberation, an estimated 45,000 Iraqis have been killed, largely because of insurgent and terrorist activities. Yet, there are few signs that a majority of Iraqis are prepared to raise the white flag of surrender.
Several events in the past two weeks have highlighted the growing isolation of the jihadists and their Saddamite allies. One event is the creation of a tribal alliance, bringing together all Arab Sunni clans of western Iraq together in a united front to "chase Al Qaida out of Iraq".
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A second noteworthy event is the almost unanimous approval by the Iraqi National Assembly (parliament) of a new plan for peace and reconciliation. Backed by all ethnic and religious communities through their political parties, the new plan further underlines the marginalisation of the jihadists and Saddamite groups.
More importantly, the plan envisages the creation of a unified information office to harmonise the sermons delivered at mosques, regardless of their sectarian affiliations. The idea is to use the mosque as a forum for a unified and democratic Iraq rather than a hub of sectarian agitation.
A third event was the Makkah meeting held on Saturday. It brought together prominent Muslim Sunni and Shiite clerics from Iraq and eight other Muslim countries to discuss and approve a declaration demanding an end to sectarian feuds in Iraq. An initiative of the Organisation of the Islamic Conference (OIC), the gathering reflects growing impatience with the jihadists throughout the Muslim world.
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The Makkah gathering represents the first major effort by Sunnis and Shiites towards the mutual recognition of one another as acceptable versions of the same faith, since 1947.
Despite the dramatic increase in terrorist attacks in recent weeks, new Iraq is holding its own because Iraqi morale is holding. That morale, however, is under constant attack from… snip
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Thank you very much.
Yes, indeed.
On top of everything else abhorrent that he is, Kerry is also an admitted white supremicist. That quote confirms it.
Bottom Left hand corner is the gay one
Well, time for me to go play with loud toys that go BANG!!
See you folks tomorrow.
Rush on Kerry "He is a super slacker. His mind is soft. He gets by by sounding important"...
I love it when Rush gives it to the left. It's a friggin' artform.
They fun pal!
a-HAH! Just as I thought! lol
Most of the effete snobbish people like Kerry are racists.
But they're too stupid to realize it.
Have fun with the toys!
John Kerry knows what he was saying. The Democrats know what he was saying. So far we have been given three different EXCUSES of what he said. It is clear how this man thinks. He made it perfectly clear in his run for the White House. He HATES the military. Period.
Exactly! And once in a while, one of the stupider ones says so.
They're astounding to listen to. Their childlike belief that their leaders know best (justifying their own laziness in abdicating their civic duty to become informed), and that it's all right for them to go about their own business every day with no idea what's going on in the world.
I don't spend much time with such people, but once in a while I hear them.
Absolutely. This keeps reminding me of how he tried that "reporting for duty" travesty at the RAT convention in 04. It was clearly mocking the military.
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