Iraqi PM Freezes Militia Raids

No more raids against suspected Shi'ite militiamen? WTF is this guy thinking? I guess corrupt politicians aren't just in the U.S., huh? Without these raids, and with the freeze being publicized like this, it's only going to cause these militiamen to hurry up and move their operations to new locations before the freeze is lifted. Great job... just another politician giving in to the requests of the wealthy.

Maybe the Iraqi PM has it right. If he appears to be making peace and the militias keep causing trouble, the people will start cooperating with the government and get rid of the militias. It would put Sader in a bad position, politically.

He is operating on the same principals that were applied to Bush by the Dems. Talk to your enemy; give them what they want. If it does not work, then talk some more.

If it does not work, then unleash the military, and crush the cities that support Sader. Problem solved, and political goodness is observed.

What a ding dong.
Keept he pressure up and kill your enemy. Don't back off and let them re-arm and rest up for the next fight.

He appears to be blinking before losing a show of strength in a
million man march.

Wilmas-Iraq_Vet wrote:

No more raids against suspected Shi'ite militiamen? WTF is this guy thinking? I guess corrupt politicians aren't just in the U.S., huh? Without these raids, and with the freeze being publicized like this, it's only going to cause these militiamen to hurry up and move their operations to new locations before the freeze is lifted. Great job... just another politician giving in to the requests of the wealthy.

Why don't he get Al Sadr and take him out of the picture. If they used Al Sadr as a hostage and threaten to kill him if the Shi'ite militia don't hand thier weapons over.

The population of Iraq is so fragmented into sects and sub-sects ect. the only way to unify this nation is to create a federation of sub-states. The United States of America started this way with The Articles of Confederation until we were able to create a national identity and constitution.

Well, I guess dubya is out of options... time to being the troops home.

If the U.S. doesn't smarten up and stop believing that the Iraqi government will help do anything, well, shame on us again! I once thought that keeping our troops there might be fighting the terrorists, but now, it's time to leave! These people know nothing else but fighting with each other. It's time to let the chips fall where they may.

Does anyone - McCain, Obama, Hillary - have the balls to give the Iraqi government an ultimatum? Well, maybe Hillary!

Take Iraqi oil for payment of our national debt and reduce gas prices, let the illegal aliens in but then send them over to fight terrorists and last but not least, lets make our politicians live in our real economy and pay for their own drugs!

The freeze coincidentally takes effect on Monday the traditional "Pay day" for terrorists. The Iraqi leader knows that the cash flow generated by these terrorists , with the purchase of guns ,knives and other military items is what keeps the flea markets of Baghdad thriving, and also coincides with tyhe annual Baghdad county fair , slated for opening Monday as well. Livestock exhibits, cotten candy and Rides are just some of the main attractions and Country legend Roy Clark headlines Tuesday at the Cow Exibit arena.

Al Maliki allows US troops to disarm the Mehdi Army from missiles and mortars that they are getting from the Iranian evil regime. Clearly, US mission in Iraq depends on their success in defeating the Iranian regime commanded Mehdi Army and they would never be able to stabilize Iraq with the Mehdi Army keep attacking the Green Zone.
However, it seems that Al Maliki is just continuing his appeasement games of the Iranian regime ruled Islamic terrorists of the Mehdi Army rather than defeating and disarming them. Clearly, US troops need not be part of the Iraqi game of pandering to Iranian regime ruled Islamic terrorists and it is time for President Bush to insist on disarming the Mehdi Army and the al Sadr's hordes. President Bush said recently that it was a critical moment of the war in Iraq and that the armed Iranian Mehdi Army must be removed from the streets of Basra and Sadr City. After five years in Iraq that cost the American people huge amount of blood, sweat and money, it is time for the American people to see progress without going back to the initial war against the Mehdi Army four years ago. President Bush must put PM Maliki to task and demand defeat of the Iranian regime Islamic terrorist of the Mehdi Army and disarming them. US troops must start reducing their forces and come home because the Iraqi war should not last forever without bringing solid results for the American people. Clearly, the war in Iraq is taking too long without defeating the Iranian regime Islamic terrorists all over the Middle East that only getting stronger with potential nukes and dirty bombs.

As election time gets closer, the citizens of the USA should make one demand, bring the troops back to the USA or you don't get relected!

Time for us to take back out country and bring what belongs to us back to the USA!

Wake Up USA! Time is in hand!

From what is being seen none of the Presidential Hopefuls, could properly manage a trash dumpster!

maliki said to two military sources that he threatened to resign and run to syria if his campaign was not successful. ufr! does anyone there have any backbone? replace this coward.got the story from financial times.

Get rid of this guy. Part of the problem not the cure.

if he stops going after them then they can concentrate on going after the usa boys ,, our buddie , but i must be wrong afer all gw looked him in the eye , must of been the brown eye cause thats all he gives us

Interesting related article:
Al-Mahdi army offers to lay down its arms

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/i...

Quote from article:
Aides to Hojatoleslam Moqtada al-Sadr said that he would send delegations to Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, a moderate religious leader in Najaf, and to senior clerics in Iran to consult on whether he should stand down his 60,000-strong al-Mahdi Army.

Traveler wrote:

Maybe the Iraqi PM has it right. If he appears to be making peace and the militias keep causing trouble, the people will start cooperating with the government and get rid of the militias. It would put Sader in a bad position, politically.
He is operating on the same principals that were applied to Bush by the Dems. Talk to your enemy; give them what they want. If it does not work, then talk some more.
If it does not work, then unleash the military, and crush the cities that support Sader. Problem solved, and political goodness is observed.

This is sound reasoning, and could very well work.

A German's point of view on Islam.

A man whose family was German aristocracy prior to World War II owned a number of large industries and estates. When asked how many German people were true Nazis, the answer he gave can guide our attitude toward fanaticism.

'Very few people were true Nazis 'he said,' but many enjoyed the return of German pride, and many more were too busy to care. I was one of those who just thought the Nazis were a bunch of fools. So, the majority just sat back and let it all happen. Then, before we knew it, they owned us, and we had lost control, and the end of the world had come. My family lost everything. I ended up in a concentration camp and the Allies destroyed my factories.'

We are told again and again by 'experts' and 'talking heads' that Islam is the religion of peace, and that the vast majority of Muslims just want to live in peace. Although this unqualified assertion may be true, it is entirely irrelevant. It is meaningless fluff, meant to make us feel better, and meant to somehow diminish the spectra of fanatics rampaging across the globe in the name of Islam. The fact is that the fanatics rule Islam at this moment in history.

It is the fanatics who march. It is the fanatics who wage any one of 50 shooting wars worldwide. It is the fanatics who systematically slaughter Christian or tribal groups throughout Africa and are gradually taking over the entire continent in an Islamic wave. It is the fanatics who bomb, behead, murder, or honor kill. It is the fanatics who take over mosque after mosque. It is the fanatics who zealously spread the stoning and hanging of rape victims and homosexuals. The hard quantifiable fact is that the 'peaceful majority', the 'silent majority', is cowed and extraneous.

Communist Russia was comprised of Russians who just wanted to live in peace, yet the Russian Communists were responsible for the murder of about 20 million people. The peaceful majority were irrelevant.

China's huge population was peaceful as well, but Chinese Communists managed to kill a staggering 70 million people.

The average Japanese individual prior to World War II was not a warmongering sadist. Yet, Japan murdered and slaughtered its way across South East Asia in an orgy of killing that included the systematic murder of 12 million Chinese civilians; most killed by sword, shovel, and bayonet.

And, who can forget Rwanda, which collapsed into butchery. Could it not be said that the majority of Rwandans were 'peace loving'?

History lessons are often incredibly simple and blunt, yet for all our powers of reason we often miss the most basic and uncomplicated of points:

Peace-loving Muslims have been made irrelevant by their silence. Peace-loving Muslims will become our enemy if they don't speak up, because like my friend from Germany, they will awaken one day and find that the fanatics own them, and the end of their world will have begun. Peace-loving Germans, Japanese, Chinese, Russians, Rwandans, Serbs, Afghanis, Iraqis, Palestinians, Somalis, Nigerians, Algerians, and many others have died because the peaceful majority did not speak up until it was too late.

As for us who watch it all unfold, we must pay attention to the only group that counts; the fanatics who threaten our way of life.

Lastly, at the risk of offending, anyone who doubts that the issue is serious and just deletes this email without sending it on, is contributing to the passiveness that allows the problems to expand. So, extend yourself a bit and send this on and on and on! Let us hope that thousands world wide, read this -think about it - and send it on.

The Iraqis are standing up, Mister President - can you hear them?

A minority of Iraqi ministers, led by Iraq's President, Al-Maliki, support a future confederacy of three or four loosely aligned Iraqi states, and have attempted to destroy the political basis for a unified federal Iraqi government.

This is the future Iraq according to George W. Bush. In this version of Iraq, oil would be sold by individual provinces, all vying for U.S. buyers, thereby bringing the price down, and ripping the Iraqi people off.

Muqtada Al Sadr's political party, which represents the majority of Iraqis, is fighting FOR a unified, federalized, Iraqi government, wherein the central government would control the price of oil, with a take-it-or-leave-it pricing arrangement best suited to bring prosperity to the Iraqi people.

This war IS about oil, and it always was.

American soldiers are now dying defending a future Iraqi Confederacy, supported by a minority of Iraq's citizenry, rather than standing up for a bona fide Iraqi Democratic Republic.

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