Iraqi Sunnis are forming an alliance with Al Qaeda in Iraq.  Should Bush add this to his resume?
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yes.  no doubt about it.\n\ndon't you understand the master plan?  get all them damn terrorists into Iraq, then drop a few mega-ton nuclear devices, and bad-a-bing, the terrorists are gone and the problem is now solved.
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No. It is Al Qaida which was fuelling Saddam's hatred against the USA. His death will not deter them as they are a Jehadi suicidal group. Their total annihilation should be at the top of the agenda for war against global terrorism. His death might herald democracy and 'Limited government' under a lasting Constitution towards which the progressive Muslims should strive.
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It all depends on your definition, and who is counting.\nIf some Sunni nut kills a bunch of Shi'ites, but not Americans, is he a terrorist?\n\nAl-Qaeda claims it has 12,000 members.
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It's Jihad Time. Cuz People like Bush have already planned for the war on Islam and We muslims are ready to teach this F?????G BA???RD a lesson of his life.
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Undoubtedly. The Saudis and Bushes are bosom buddies. Our invasion of Iraq after Saddam's invasion of Kuwait was at the behest of the Saudi family. They feared that Saddam would target them next after Kuwait.\n\nAdditionally, how many of the 9/11 attackers were from Saudi Arabia? And how many were from Iraq? Yet we chose to go after Saddam?\n\nThe U.S. Government has been romancing the Saudis for years with their left hand and stroking the Israelis with the right hand at the same time.  Oops switch those hands - I forgot that the Saudis were arabs - wouldn't want to insult them, you know. They might raise the price of crude to $60./bbl...........................\n\nThey sure are a bunch of princes, aren't they!
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the sitation in Iraq is understandable and it has nothing to do with "religion" \n\nregardless of the (minor) religious difference Sunnis and Shiites lived together in peace for centuries.\nit wasn't until the invasion of Iraq when hell broke loose. at first, the Iraqis rejoiced when the US military over thrown the Ba'th regime of Saddam Hussein.\n\nnow we have the Iraqi people (Sunnis and Shiites) and Al Qaida (foreign fighters from all over the Mideast and mostly Sunnis) in Iraq right.\nAl Qaida in Iraq are committed to fight the Americans in Iraq to the bitter end until we either get out or get killed. that's how they think.\n\nafter the first few months the majority of the Iraqis who "rejoiced" when Saddam was caught, started to get tired of the US occupation and the militias started to grow.\nin the beginning there was no fighting between Shiites and Sunnis at all. all the fighting was basically against the US and UK. Sunni Iraqis who wanted to get involved in this joined Al Qaida (foreign Arabs) and Shiites Iraqis joined Al Mahdi Army in Baghdad's Sadr city.\nnow this Mahdi militia was showing our troops hell until the US Army had to make a truce with their leader Muqtada Al Sadr and promised him that the new regime will be controlled by Shiites instead Sunnis who ruled Iraq for many many years under Saddam's regime.\n\nSunnis see this as treason and therefore justify killing the "traitors". they started bombing Shiite neighborhoods, mosques, and markets.\nbottom line is our military is some what responsible for all the sectarian violence between Sunnis and Shiites.\n\nin my opinion both Shiites and Sunnis who do kill innocent people for no reason other than being Sunni or Shiites (civilians) are vicious animals and don't deserve to breath.\nunfortunately the civil war has erupted and there's nothing we can do to stop it.\nmark my words. this current regime will not last for too long.
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What you see in the Iraq news, is not what you get. The news business demands startling headlines, to attract eyeballs. It's business, as the eyeballs are rented to advertisers to pay for it all. But the reality of the news is less startling, and consists of trends. These are the current trends in Iraq.\n\nAfter three years, the Sunni Arabs, who long dominated Iraq, most recently under the leadership of Saddam Hussein, are giving up. It took so long because of a quirk in Arab culture, one that encourages the support of lost causes. The term "cut your losses and move on" is not as popular in the Arab world as it is in the West. But even the slow learners in the Sunni Arab community had to finally confront some unfavorable trends. Chief among these was;\n\nThe Kurds and Shia Arabs have formed a national police force and army that is far more powerful than anything the Sunni Arab community can muster. Over the last year, Sunni Arabs realized that the police and army were in control of more and more Sunni Arab towns. This was a trend that could not be ignored. Added to that was the number of Kurds and Shia Arabs who had lost kin to Sunni Arab terror over the last three decades. Many of these people want revenge, and they all have guns. Many, especially those that belong to the police, or militias, are taking their revenge. The Sunni Arabs want protection, for they cannot muster enough guns to defend themselves. Now the Sunni Arabs want the Americans to stay, at least until there's some assurance that the Kurd and Shia Arab vengeance attacks have died down.\n\nThe alliance with al Qaeda was a disaster. These Islamic terrorists were obsessed with causing a civil war in Iraq, and they insisted on doing this by killing lots of Shia Arabs. The Sunni Arabs didn't want to kill lots of Shia Arabs, they wanted to rule them all once more. But that raised another contentious issue. While some Sunni Arabs were in favor of an Islam Republic, which al Qaeda insisted on, most Sunni Arabs wanted a more secular Sunni Arab dominated government. This dispute was never resolved, as the split between al Qaeda and the Sunni Arab community widened. At the moment, al Qaeda is not welcome in most Sunni Arab areas. That's "come near this place and we'll kill you" not welcome. This after al Qaeda tried to terrorize the Sunni Arab tribal leaders into compliance. Killing Sunni Arab tribal chiefs didn't work.\n\nYou can't kill enough Americans to scare them into leaving. Saddam, and most Iraqis, were convinced that, because of Vietnam (where 55,000 American died) and Somalia (where 18 died in 1993), the United States would withdraw if you killed enough of them. While that is sometimes true, it's good to remember that over a million Vietnamese died during the 1960s, and that 1993 battle in Mogadishu left over 500 Somalis dead as well. Moreover, this, "the Americans have no stomach for a fight" is nothing new. It's why Japan attacked in 1941, believing that if they beat up the Americans bad enough, the faint hearted Yankees would just go away. Hitler also believed the Americans would not fight. After three years, the Iraqi Sunni Arabs have discovered that the Americans can certainly fight, and the Yankees have also found ways to do it that involve extraordinarily low American casualties. This story has not really gotten the attention it deserves, but the Sunni Arabs have noticed. They have noticed that if you attack the Americans, chances are you will die, and the Americans will just keep on keeping on. It used to be that the Sunni Arabs could take heart from the occasional attack where they killed a few Americans. But no longer. Everyone knows the trend, and doesn't want to be another victim of it. Last month 32 Americans were killed in combat. The last time it was that low was in February 2004. Back then, the Sunni Arab tribes and al Qaeda had joined forces. Both of them had plenty of weapon
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The Sunnis were the best Allies of the US insofar,\nSaudi Arabia and all gulf arab states are sunnis,\nPak is sunni,\nIran is shite,\nHizbollah is shite,\nNow the US has a very Confused political entity in the form of Occupiers in Iraq,\nIf they fight the Sunnis, Thier support will slowly erode in the next 10 years from the mahority muslim countries,\nand Iraq will be even more uncontrollable as they will be taking orders from Iran\nIf they Fight the shites, Moqtada Al Sadr will roast thier white A s s\nThe best Formula is to release Saddam Hussain and make it look like an escape,\nThat will dampen the shite spirits and organise the sunnis,\nThe rest is left to Saddam\nLet him do what he was good at, Keeping the country united and under control,\nThe Khurds dont love the US\nThe Shites dont love America,\nThe best bet is to release Saddam and leave Iraq in the next 3 days after his escape.
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Saddam was the Baathist party leader in Iraq.  Most Sunni's are Baathist as well.  That is the connection between the two.  Saddam is by no means a religious man.  It was on rare occasion that he even wore Arab garb.  The Sunni's enjoyed most of the perks under his watch.  Most of the army was Sunni, yet most of the Republican Guard were from his home town. These are the people that he trusted the most; these were his most loyal followers, it had nothing to do with religion. His relationship with all other segments of Iraqi society was at best, guarded.  The Kurds would have had his ass in a New York minute, given half the chance.  The Turkman had no particular edge with Saddam, and the Christians just stayed out of his way. The Shiites, particularly those in the south, had strong ties to Iran.  Iran's brand of Islam is predominately Shiite, so Saddam was not particularly friendly to the Shiites.  Saddam ruled with scare tactics and he was pretty effective with them.  He kept every one under control but at a high price.  The mass graves still pop up occasionally!
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I'm not sure what your point is - they never did find evidence of WMD's in Iraq, and there was no legitimate connection between Al-Qaeda and Saddam Hussein's government.  (I'm with you on the 9/11 bit.)  What do you want the extreme-liberals to learn - to deny reality?
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It doesn't.  President Bush just claims it does, to get a reason to get suspicious about Iraqis and Arabs.  Any wrong word, even though it's a free country, the president will get suspicious.  And, there's no way of knowing if the system will be abused, the president has already lied to us enough.
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Watch or listen to CSPAN now. There is a hearing on that. The General just said We need more troops, another said, We need an exit strategy. \nIn one month the Baker meet will be over and then and only then will we will know anything. \nMy opinion is that there should be 3, one Sunni, one Shiite and one Kurd. Each with their own accepted borders, and all sharing equally in any oil revenues from all 3 Countries or States. \nThe Shia and Sunni are never going to get along, and the Kurds just add an extra element of dispute. So give them all 3 equally shares of land, in relation to their original lands and with some acknowledgment as to Census Status, i.e. 3million Shia, 3million acre, 2 million Sunnis 2 million acres, 1million Kurds, 1 million acre. Or something like that. Seems fair, they all get Oil Revenues equally, and no one is or can take anothers land.
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unfortunately no, he still has way too many followers who are looking to reinstate the "old" ways. Until the insurgents are gone, Iraq will still be a mess.
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Bush was using scare tactics to grab votes. Karl rove admitted that scaring Americans into a panic would win votes and justify the war in Iraq.\n  I have often wondered why Bush doesn't mention osama bin laden anymore. Here is the real terrorist who was responsible for the biggest terrorist attack in U.S history. There is evidence that the bin laden family have connections to the Bush family. They have extensive business relations for years.\n  Maybe he doesn't mention bin laden because he has no interest in capturing him. If by capturing bin laden could bring millions to Bush and Halliburton than you could bet the farm we would have him by now.\n  Could this be the reason why were in Iraq, to draw attention away from bin laden? Bush said in a speech back in late 2002 "I don't think about bin laden, I don't care were he's at,he's not a big deal to me".\n  This is how crazy Bush is. His idea is "osama bin laden attacked us, so lets go after Saddam". It's like if your neighbor beats up your wife so you go after your pastor.\n  The truth is this, Bush and Cheney can make alot more money invading Iraq and grabbing the oil (see Halliburton) and giving out a lucrative fire fighting contract to a firm once run by Cheney than by capturing Osama. \nBut in fairness to Bush, he has to keep shedding innocent blood or he violates his deal with the devil.\nIf anyone wants to see some real good stuff go to infowars.com or prisonplanet.com
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Liberals accused President Bush of deliberately missing al-Zarqawi in Iraq in 2002 ; while saying there were no terrorist ties to Iraq when the troops entered Iraq in 2003 . If Zarqawi was in Iraq in 2002 , how could there be no terrorist ties to Iraq? He was holding terrorist training camp in Iraq and had contact with Iraqi intelligence . The liberal "theory" that Saddam had no ties to terrorists , is also full of holes , - they are blowing themselves out of the water with their new accusations that Bush missed Zarqawi in 2002-which puts Zarqawi in Iraq BEFORE the invasion in 2003-so-unwittingly the libs justified going into Iraq in 2003-because Saddam did have terrorist ties.
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By providing intelligence about impending attacks on Iraq (2003) to the Iraqis in order to help them fight against the US.  Wait a second, that wouldn't really be helpful, now would it?\n\nActually, they are cooperating by arresting suspects in Germany and trying them in court on terrorism charges.  They also continue to produce schnitzel and wurst in large quanitites in hopes that the terrorists will eat a lot and be too sleepy to do bad things.
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That's a good question. Even though there are STILL a lot of people who believe that Iraq and Al Qaeda were in cahoots, the fact of the matter is that Saddam Hussein's regime was SECULAR and that he was actually considered an infidel by the fundamentalists.