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Shiite's revolt in Basra
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"A revolt is taking place in Basra," Mohammad Hadi, spokesman of the Iran-based Supreme Assembly for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq (news - web sites) (ASRII), told AFP.
I'm proud we're part of liberating people. Some Scottish group within the UK's army is helping the Shitte's fight Saddam's loyalists.
I'm proud we're part of liberating people. Some Scottish group within the UK's army is helping the Shitte's fight Saddam's loyalists.
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Clandestine: I can't stand to see people tortured. Is that so hard to understand? Now Saddam's goons are lowering people into industrial shredders while their families watch. And he makes sure the public knows about it.
Not talking about economical benefits of it (which is of course a plesant thing for the state America has been in financially).
More about the facts that Turkey are now said to get involved, and if you're right Shia muslims as well, and it just leaves the whole deal messier, than it was when starting.
And of course, as you point out Jacq, with the Turks sticking their nose in Iraqi Kurdish affairs, or intending to, the whole charade of bringing "democracy" to Iraq will be exposed for the BS that it is. Nice soundbite for gullible sorts like pnj to lap up but sadly not a plausible reality in that factious country.
It's a mess. The Bush doctrain after 9/11 is basically that we can't wait to be attacked. We must hit first...at Al Qaeda enablers.
You should be able to find a population demographic by searching Google.
*awaits Aladdins arrival to address pnj's continuing delusions*
If that was the case then the US government should have turned the guns on themselves.
As it has been pointed out to you before pnj, the war on terror and the war on Iraq are completely unrelated. Saddam was actually the best pest control instrument in the area when it comes to Al Qaida. It's in fact some of those Kurds who you're coming to liberate who have been a little too friendly with Mr bin Laden and his mates.
Don’t worry mate, you’re doing well. You don’t mention the “link” as often as in the past; the spell placed by the Washington spin-doctors is starting to crumble. Together we will pull through this!
continued defiance will lead only to the further erosion and irrelevance of the UN and any charter the body issues. If the US / UK have to be the only nations that decide to uphold the charter, then the UN part and parcel is useless.
The UN/UK are not upholding the charter, which is precisely why much debate is raging in legal circles over the likely illegality of this invasion.
I posted this elsewhere but you might do well to read it carefully...
http://www.lcnp.org/global/Iraqstatemt.3.pdf
If anything the US and UK are undermining the UN charter and setting a precedent which other world powers could easily emulate when and if they felt justified in themselves to pursue their own self interests in a similar manner. And like dominos this precedent will likely only serve to set off a chain reaction in the direction of renewed chaos and unmitigated war.
Something your children can thank Mr. Bush for when all the mechanisms that have kept world conflict at bay for more than half a century have been systematically dismantled.
Talking about political tendencies, not religious. Though the only figures avaliable are probably from before the Baath party took over.
You what?
Get it straight: Iraq wasn't then- and isn't now- a conquered country. It is a sovereign nation and regardless of outstanding UN resolutions and what the US might think, it has no right to put UN inspectors on payroll and get them to spy for America on unrelated issues.
This is the bit form the CIA factbook that was updated a few days ago. It has a section on the ethnic make up.
About 80% Arab (of which 65% Shia and 35% Sunni approx), approximately 15% Kurdish and 5% others including Turkomans and Assyrians.....