Good morning.
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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Hello fellow Dittoheads.
I'll let you know tomorrow.
};^)
Howdy, all!
Welcome!
Take pictures. LOL.
JMHO, but the election next week may truly be more a national referendum on the MSM than the candidates.
They're so invested in the defeat of anything to the right of Jane Fonda, they have surrendered any claims they have ever had at objectivity or integrity.
If the recent reported declines in circulation are any indication of where the country is actually headed, the dims are about to get a planet-sized can of whoopa$$ opened up on 'em..........and their pimps in the MSM are headed for Chapter Eleven.
Good riddance.
Ok. Then, if I learn how to get them to my photobucket acct, I'll post a few here tomorrow.
Back atcha!
I was looking at home-gym equipment
with my wife. I stepped on a treadmill and
said, "Honey, if I got this, I would look
like I did in high school."
"Sweetheart," she said gently, "it's a treadmill,
not a time machine."
Does anyone have a link for this smoking article?
It's so great that that photo is getting national attention! The Marines and soldiers with whom I work, most of whom have at least one tour in Afghanistan or Iraq, loved it.
Ooooh, peaches! Yum!
Nancy Pelosi has been found...
http://www.wyolife.com/kerryfest/videos/pelosi-applewhite_NEW_NEW.mov
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