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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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http://archive.gulfnews.com/articles/06/10/25/10077261.html
New Iraq is working hard to get rid of the old ways
By Amir Taheri, Special to Gulf News
Talk to Iraqis these days and you are likely to hear one thing: what are the Americans and their British allies up to?
The Iraqis have in mind the perception that the political mainstream in both the US and Britain, as illustrated by the recent remarks of the head of the British armed forces, now regards the Iraq project as a disaster, with cut-and-run or whistle-and-walk-away, as the only options.
Most Iraqis regard the toppling of Saddam Hussain, the dismantling of his machinery of war and oppression and the introduction of pluralist politics to Iraq as an historic success. It is precisely because the stakes are so high that new Iraq faces such a determined challenge from its two arch enemies: Baathism and radical Islamism. New Iraq represents an historic victory that is challenged by the enemies of both the western democracies and the Iraqi people. The issue is how to consolidate that victory, not to snatch defeat from its jaw.
Iraq today is the central battlefield in the global war between two mutually exclusive visions of the future.
The jihadists know that they cannot win on that battlefield. After three years of almost daily killings, often in the most horrible manner imaginable, they have failed to alter new Iraq's political agenda. Nor have they managed to win control of any territory or broaden their constituency.
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Thank you Godfather................
Where's RICO when ya need it?
I looked at that picture and it was a hoot!
I want to see Kerry apologize in public NOT from behind a website. We know that he didn't write that BS letter.
Top Story II
Joe Trippi on John Kerry
Guest: Joe Trippi, Dean campaign manager
Democrat strategist Joe Trippi, who ran Howard Dean's presidential campaign, gave his analysis of the John Kerry dustup. "This is a firestorm about nothing and will not affect the election. I don't think this is going to have an effect on any individual races." In marked contrast to Tony Snow, Trippi depicted the Iraq war as an unmitigated disaster. "All the tough Senate races are revolving around the war and people's belief it not going well and it was not worth it. This administration took us into this war and said it was going to go great. I have not heard a single apology. So the American people are saying where's the leadership? The country wants change." The Factor questioned what that change would entail. "As an independent, I want to know what Howard Dean and Hillary Clinton are going to do. I don't get a lot of specifics, I get history. When I go to the polls on Tuesday, I have to decide whether I stay with the guys who are having a tough time, or do I go with
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Iraq would immediately become the center of anti-western Islamofascism. Iraqi citizens who tried to protest would be slaughtered. The Islamofascists would absolutely perceive the allied departure as a defeat of the United States, and would be emboldened to a degree that would generate recruits to their cause worldwide.
Iraq war as an unmitigated disaster
Is it me or is this a smear on our troops also. I don't see how the war cannot be called a success. It is over, it has been for a while now. I just don't get it!
Long time no "see"!
How are you doing?
Happt belated birthday!
BTW, you have frmail in a sec.
You gotta love the DBM and how differently they cover Kerry's moronic statements vs the election in General.
They breathlesly proclaim that this is "An Election about President Bush"...yet on WMAL last night, the ABC news reader opens his story on Kerry calling me dumb by saying "Even though he's not running for any office this year...the focus of the election right now is on John Kerry..."
I about wrecked my van on 395.
The guy was working for Dean, consider the source.
It's not you...it IS a smear.
THE MODEL OF A MAJOR MODERN DEMOCRAT (Kerry, a full-frontal weasel)
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