Does this mean that the Iraqis

[Oh, Gee!!]

are finally starting to stand up for themselves? I hope so, cuz that means we can bring the troops home sooner rather than later.



http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/07/11/iraq.main/index.html

[clambake]

are finally starting to stand up for themselves? I hope so, cuz that means we can bring the troops home sooner rather than later.



http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/07/11/iraq.main/index.html
Hope

[Ocotillo]

The story is an example of why al Quada will not "take over" Iraq when American forces pull out. al Quada is not popular with the general Iraqi population. If/When the American military pulls out, there is going to be a bloodbath and the winner will control Iraq and they likely won't be very pro-western. With a 60% majority in Iraq, the Shiites likely ending up prevailing and ruling with an iron fist like Saddam did when he was there. al Quada will have people there as they do in Somalia, Sudan, Yemen, the U.K., Saudi Arabia, Egypt, and on and on but they will not have free reign as the GOP scaremongers would have you believe.

[Nbadan]

In other developments...

• At least 20 gunmen stormed the house of Samarra's deputy mayor Abboud Hamid, shot him several times and killed him Wednesday.

• Iraqi police found 30 bullet-riddled bodies across the capital Wednesday, some of them blindfolded with their hands tied behind their backs and showing signs of torture. Also, the U.S. military found 12 unidentified bodies Tuesday on a highway between Samarra and Tikrit.

• A British cleric trying to negotiate the release of five British hostages seized in Baghdad has returned to the United Kingdom amid reports that extremists were distributing threatening pamphlets that labeled him a spy, according to the cleric's office and the British Embassy in the Iraqi capital.

• A U.S. airstrike Tuesday killed three "suspected secret cell terrorists" near al-Majar al-Kabir, a predominately Shiite town close to the Iranian border, the military said Wednesday. The suspected terrorists are thought to have links to Iranian elements responsible for providing funds, weapons and military assistance to insurgents.

• A German woman held hostage in Iraq since February was freed Tuesday, but the fate of her adult son -- who was also kidnapped -- was not immediately known, German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier said in a statement issued Wednesday.

• The Associated Press reported that an investigating officer has recommended dismissing murder charges against a Marine accused in the slayings of three Iraqi men in an operation that left 24 civilians dead in Haditha. Lt. Paul Ware said in a Tuesday report that the government's theory that Lance Cpl. Justin L. Sharatt executed the men was "incredible" and relied on contradictory statements by Iraqis, AP reported.

• Four people were killed and 15 others were wounded when three mortar rounds landed in a residential area in Iskandariya on Tuesday.

• Gunmen attacked an Iraqi police patrol Tuesday evening, killing four Iraqi police officers and wounding two others in northern Baghdad

[boutons_]

"With a 60% majority in Iraq, the Shiites likely ending up prevailing and ruling with an iron fist like Saddam did when he was there"

and supported by Shiite Iran. dubya's bogus, botched invasion was always going to hand Iraq to the Shiites, who will probably align themselves with Iran (but they don't want Iran running Iraq), to exterminate Sunnis and kickout Sunni AQ.

[Nbadan]

Well, I think the original plan was to use a string of globalist puppet leaders, like we did in South and Central America for decades, and preferably a Kurd that didn't ask to many questions when the Oilco's were carving up the Iraqi oil fields without a vote from the Iraqi people...