- BTW do you have a link that shows that to be the case officially, because the last I heard they were restating the same old hate filled positions as always. I really hope what you say is true. It would be a huge step in the right direction. Link por favor?

- Bang

- Bang

If not for the men and women who guard it, who fight for it, it would be nothing more than a piece of paper.

Without the military that piece of paper will hold no meaning if you have no one who will stand up and fight for thier rights.

I can bet you if we were ever invaded, and say China took over the US, that Piece of paper (the Constitution) would be burned in front of our eyes.

Without men and women to fight for the Freedoms that are within the Constitution, it is no more than a piece of paper.

Think about that.

I don’t like it that these cowards exist, but I’m aware that not everyone was meant to fight for the things worth fighting for. It’s their self-imposed ignorant maliciousness and the spiteful denials, which serve no purpose but to bring America down that’s so reprehensible.

- Bang

Last I heard from Sadr he put a stop to the terroristic activity of his sadr brigade and went into Iraqi politics.

In our neighborhood the Sadr militias seized the local mosque and broadcast Shia religious mourning songs from the mosques loudspeakers.

In several other cases, worshippers were turned away by “gunmen in black” who surrounded the closed mosques. Other mosques are encircled by razor-wire to stop anyone from approaching them.

Looking at the geographic distribution of the attacked mosques, I found they were mostly in areas adjacent to Sadr city forming a line that extends from the New Baghdad district in the southeast to al-Hussayniya in the northeast.

The Association of Muslim Scholars is accusing the Sadrists in particular, actually it’s not only the Association that accuses the Sadrists, most people here in Baghdad point out the role of Mehdi army of Sadr in carrying out most of the attacks.

The Association is trying to remind Sadr of the their times of solidarity during the battles in Najaf and Fallujah yet they are condemning his message to his followers in which he called for keeping up and escalating the “protests”.

Link

The defense minister in a press conference currently on Iraqi TV gave statistics to correct what he described as “exaggerated media reports” about civilian casualties and attacks on mosques since the attack on the Samarra shrine:

Mosques attacked/shot at without damage: 21 not 51
Moderately damaged: 6 not 23
Mosques destroyed totally: 1 not 3
Mosques occupied by militias: 1 not 2 (evacuated later).
Civilians killed: 119 not 183

It was also announced that day-time curfew in Baghdad and three other provinces (Salahiddin, Diyala and Babil) will continue for another two days.

Wow the media was reporting incorrect facts? I can’t believe that.

I mean look at the wonderful press coverage they ran for Katrina.
How can they get something like this so wrong?

Iraqis must be the puppets of Bush! They are reporting what HE tells them to tell the reporters and the media. That is the ONLY way the media could have been wrong. The MSM is never wrong!!!

*** Yes that was sarcasm if you hadn’t noticed ***

In the same press conference, the interior minister said “we are not going to show tolerance towards those who cause violence anymore, those who felt like doing something have done what they done but we will accept no more of this” obviously referring to those who let their anger push them to violence.

The defense minister added that they are working in the government on activating the counter-terrorism laws which includes “arresting anyone who’s found guilty of provoking violence”.

And added “We have put the armored units of the Iraqi army on high alert and these units (one division+) will be deployed to the streets one we see a real need for that”.

- Bang

Colonel Jerry USMC(retired) eluded to this somewhat, at Aces HQ a day or two back.

Heaven forbid good news should ever see the light of day!