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Alex213
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Lebanon bait and switch for Iraq?
#5893057 - 07/24/06 12:42 AM (17 years, 6 months ago) |
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No wonder Bush is so reluctant to do anything. Lebanon has certainly taken the catastrophe in Iraq off the front pages for a while.
Sectarian break-up of Iraq is now inevitable, admit officials By Patrick Cockburn in Amman Published: 24 July 2006
The Iraqi Prime Minister, Nouri al-Maliki, meets Tony Blair in London today as violence in Iraq reaches a new crescendo and senior Iraqi officials say the break up of the country is inevitable.
A car bomb in a market in the Shia stronghold of Sadr City in Baghdad yesterday killed 34 people and wounded a further 60 and was followed by a second bomb in the same area two hours later that left a further eight dead. Another car bomb outside a court house in Kirkuk killed a further 20 and injured 70 people.
"Iraq as a political project is finished," a senior government official was quoted as saying, adding: "The parties have moved to plan B." He said that the Shia, Sunni and Kurdish parties were now looking at ways to divide Iraq between them and to decide the future of Baghdad, where there is a mixed population. "There is serious talk of Baghdad being divided into [Shia] east and [Sunni] west," he said.
In the past two weeks, at a time when Lebanon has dominated the international news, the sectarian civil war in central Iraq has taken a decisive turn for the worse. There have been regular tit-for-tat massacres and the death toll for July is likely to far exceed the 3,149 civilians killed in June.
"The government is all in the Green Zone like the previous one and they have left the streets to the terrorists," said Mahmoud Othman, a veteran Iraqi politician. He said the situation would be made worse by the war in Lebanon because it would intensify the struggle between Iran and the US being staged in Iraq. The Iraqi crisis would now receive much reduced international attention.
The switch of American and British media attention to Lebanon and away from the rapidly deteriorating situation in Baghdad is much to the political benefit of Mr Blair and Mr Bush.
"Maliki's trip to Washington is all part of the US domestic agenda to put a good face on things for November," a European diplomat in Baghdad was quoted as saying.
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/article1193108.ece
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Fucknuckle
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Re: Lebanon bait and switch for Iraq? [Re: Alex213]
#5893068 - 07/24/06 12:46 AM (17 years, 6 months ago) |
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Iraq is a ruse for nothing more than a place to stage a world war against the towel heads.........Oil is the reason and will be the reason until there is no more oil........Simple really. The towel heads got all the oil and we want it. You gonna pay 12 a gallon for gas ???
Not trying to side track your thread...I am so narrow minded about this shit anyway...
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Alex213
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Re: Lebanon bait and switch for Iraq? [Re: Fucknuckle]
#5893080 - 07/24/06 12:50 AM (17 years, 6 months ago) |
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You gonna pay 12 a gallon for gas
In the UK we already do
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downforpot
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Re: Lebanon bait and switch for Iraq? [Re: Alex213]
#5893170 - 07/24/06 01:12 AM (17 years, 6 months ago) |
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Fuck that, I want 1 dollar a gallon minimum. I say steal it from Iraq instead of buying it.
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Re: Lebanon bait and switch for Iraq? [Re: Fucknuckle]
#5893305 - 07/24/06 02:04 AM (17 years, 6 months ago) |
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The arabs hardly have all the oil, but they do have a good enough portion of it that it warrants our attention when certain countries try to, umm...switch the trading of it from dollars to euros heh.
If they stop dealing with us on oil then our economy goes boom. So we step in and prevent the boom under whatever lies they could come up with. And no better way to get support for it than 9/11. Either way it's sick, using 9/11 as an excuse or creating 9/11 as an excuse. But you have to admire the genius of it, they sure are getting away with it.
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