Uh… if Mookie keeps on running to Iran every time the going gets hot in Iraq… yes. By all means. The Iraqi Shi’ites ARE getting tired of him and the way he disappears every time things get hot. The US-friendly (or, at least, US-not-unfriendly!) Al Sistani is starting to win back the Shi’ites behind Al Sadr.

You see, there’s a HUGE problem with Al Sadr’s acceptance of help from Iran: The Iraqi Shi’ites hate “Persians” MORE than they hate Sunnis. This is and always was an “enemy of my enemy is my friend” situation.

Yes, there’s a 1400-year feud between Sunnis and Shi’ites. But there’s a much older feud between Babylon and Persia that has precedence. In fact, it’s probably the oldest feud in the world. Saddam’s attempts to invade Iran were a modern manifestation of this feud. It’s still going strong.

No Iraqi, Shi’ite or otherwise, would stand for Iranians coming in and trying to take over, but they’ve been accepting weapons and help from Iran… to fight off the Sunnis who have turned out to be mostly Al Qaeda operatives. The fact that Al Qaeda has had its hand in “Sunni” insurgence is extremely important, making it plain that the Iraqi Sunnis were never their enemies. So, since the Al Sadr insurgents were fighting to protect themselves from “Sunni” insurgents, there may be no reason for them to fight at all. And this may well be Al Sadr’s downfall. If he keeps tucking his tail and running to hide in Teheran, his remaining followers are going to abandon him with his one “cause” falling apart around his ears.

Mark my words on that!

…channeling stoned fool mode/off.

BDS is a check that the leftards can’t cash and America can ill afford.

“uses cherry picked data to give the false impression that there is real progress being made militarily.”

But it’s okay to cherry pick the DBM/MSM for ANYTHING that fits the hate everything about America paradigm, for reasons of power and control – neither of which are strong suits for the dhimmicRats.

Like I’ve said before, where are the Statesmen? Enough prattle and clamoring from the soiled pants insipid tykes already!

Now…was there anything remotely resembling a coherent point to any of that rambling you posted back there?

Such as….. Saddam lying to weapons inspectors, shooting at our planes in violation of the cease fire agreement, trying to kill a president, killing his own sons in law for turning on him, refusing to comply with several mandatory force resolutions from the UN, turning the Food for oil Program into the largest scam history, the Iraqi Liberation Act, the bombing of Iraq in 1998 after the weapons inspectors were kicked out, the refusal of Saddam to comply and respond once again in 1999 when the UN stated he was hiding weapons and weapons programs, the refusal of Saddam to feed his people and provide medical care to his population and his support for terrorists both in Iraq and abroad and the constant drain of flying the no fly zones for several years while maintaining a base in Saudi Arabia for that purpose, etc.

Sometimes I wonder if there are people out there who spent the 90s and early years of this new century in a cave. They are so ignorant of the facts it is appalling.

But you know what tommy? Considering what a sadistic dictator and serial offender Saddam was I really can not imagine what you care about the people of Iraq. That man could have wiped out half his population and oppressed the other half without so much as a kiss my behind from most of the anti war movement.

What’s amazing to me is that following a simple Op-Ed in the NYT about some short term success in Iraq has gotten the amount of print and TV coverage it has.

What’s amazing to me is how quickly the left, that would be you included tommy, is to dismiss this Op-Ed piece because it doesn’t fit into their narrow view of the way things are. Whenever the times reports anything else, you guys sure do go for it hook, line, and sinker, as long as it bashes the Bush administration in some way.

These are the obvious problems well except of course if the 43 Admin had spent the on actually securing our border with Mexico would have been far less expensive fiscally and wouldn’t have inflamed the Islamic region.

I have no idea what this sentence is supposed to mean.

Iraq has a ton a problems

Wow, thanks for the update.

I personally just can’t believe that this nation wound up in this situation in the first place.

Yeah, as opposed to ignoring threats, crossing our fingers and keeping our heads buried in the sand. THAT’S the way to conduct foreign policy. At least it was for the Clinton Administration.

Just as amazing as all the coverage Hagel and Lugar get about their views on Iraq? Aren’t there other Senators who are in favor of “winning”?

Why is this a question tommy asks, “Does antbody here actually believe that the Al-Maliki government will be a focal point that the people of Iraq will rally around?”

Tommy wrote without knowing that the amount of money spent on securing our border has gone up each year, “These are the obvious problems well except of course if the 43 Admin had spent the on actually securing our border with Mexico would have been far less expensive fiscally and wouldn’t have inflamed the Islamic region.”

I’m not saying the border is as secure as I’d like it. I’m saying that every sentence that tommy writes is either factually false or irrelevant.

It’s just like Jimmy Carter, always villainizing America, then going off and apologizing to COMMUNIST countries for how “unjust” we have been… What’s worst of all is how the Democrats cite statistics showing supposedly, “undoubtedly,” how Iraqi’s people want us out. What they fail to point out though is that those who are not involved in the “scientific” polls is how a large majority of the population is in hiding, fearing for their lives. If they were to ever speak out in favor of the U.S, they’d be the next target for Al-Qaeda…

Did anyone OTHER than me see how ecstatic the people were when Saddam’s statue was toppled? Doesn’t anyone find it odd that none of those that had partied near the razing site were later found by reporters wanting their comments on the events? Coincidence? Doubt it…