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Posted by: freelancer 2 years, 8 months agoBAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- An explosion rocked the Iraqi parliament building inside Baghdad's heavily fortified Green Zone on Thursday, causing an unknown number of casualties, Iraqi state television reported. The blast hit the parliament's cafeteria while lawmakers were having lunch, Al-Iraqiya reported.
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freelancer
April 12, 2007, 8:06 a.m.American invasion has brought so much pain, grief and death in this country. Iraq has no future, thank you US.
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edromar2
April 12, 2007, 8:19 a.m.sm43
Yes Bush did it. He toppled an unjust cruel and capricious tyrant whose iron hand and unjust use of power held together factions who would never have consented of their own free wills to be part of one nation. The rule of the primarily theocratic Shiite majority by the largely secular Sunni/Baathist minority had so enraged the former that all they sought for was an opportunity for revenge and a way out.
Saddam Hussein had driven the the Shiites to revolution by attacking their Shiite brethern in Iran on our behalf in the 80s (to punish Iran for taking our hostages) with WMDs we supplied--and which he then turned on the revolutionaries, the Shiites and the minority Kurds who tried to take advantage of the aftermath of our first attacks to rebel.
Instead of setting up three states Bush insisted on one democratic nation that would require the barbarism that Saddam practiced and a democracy can't. The dumb Duh?bya and his stupid followers!
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edromar2
April 12, 2007, 8:28 a.m.Yes, the surge is going well. Watch that Parliment building surge up before it comes crashing down!
Get the UN to partition Iraq into three states as protectorates of Iran, Syria and Turkey--to which most Itaris and those countries will agree. Add Sunni Arabs from Saudi Arabia to protect Sunni Iraq if needed to offset Iran. Only require that they share the oil fields proportionally and that they provide for a safe relocation of people that do not fit into the partitions by their ethnic and/or sectarian/secular persuasions.
We must pay for that relocation and welcome with open arms any who find that partition unacceptable. That is a small price to pay for Bush meddling in Iraq's affairs for no good reason. The dam dumb fool and his supporters!
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freelancer
April 12, 2007, 8:35 a.m.America will have to go home sooner or later and better sooner. This Iraqi government unable to function and even defend itself on their own. Iraqi forces no better than Vietnamese ARV and they have virtually nothing to fight for. But unlike Vietnam there is no power in Iraq which can take and rule the whole country. That's why this country has no future. Millions of refugees already left it.
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nikkibabe
April 12, 2007, 8:41 a.m.I thought John McCain had plans to take a stroll round the Iraqi Parliament by himself (no bulletproof vest, no armed soldiers, no blackhawks flying overhead and no armed humvees in front and back). He wanted to prove that Baghdad is safe. Hey Bush applepolisher how about flying to Baghdad and taking a cab to the greenzone?
No amount of US army, airforce, navy, dollars and lies from White House can bring Sunni, Shiite, Ismaili and Dawoodi muslims together. Their deadly divide dates back to the Moghul period somewhere around 1700,
How about going back to history class Mr. President, Mr. VP, Rice, McCain, Liberman et. al.
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gamahuche
April 12, 2007, 8:48 a.m.What caught my attention is the subhead:
"Army proposes extending tours in Iraq from a year to 15 months"
Odd that this news was sneaked into this story,which seems to be about a completely different topic, when its obviously much BIGGER news for all those whose loved ones are imbroiled in this quixotic misadventure.
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edromar2
April 12, 2007, 8:51 a.m.sm43 "merely wanted to point out that it is Sunnis killing Shias and vice versa, not Americans killing Iraqis."
Sorry that we not only have killed about half a million people in our adventure in nonsense, but continue to take lives of "insurgents" by the hour. These people are insurgents just like the loyalists were in the thirteen colonies during our revolution. The government emerging from the opposition to Britain was unacceptable to many who joined forces to support the British.
In this case, we are imposing a nationwide government of the enemies of the Sunnies upon them, a government that will soon become a revenging theocratic government like and aligned with Iran no matter what we do short of nuking that part of the earth off the map!
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edromar2
April 12, 2007, 8:53 a.m.sm43:
He/she said "the Iraqi interim government strongly objected to this and counted it out as an option."
That is because we installed an "interim" government that is essentially a Shiite front in the name of democracy, and government just waiting to get revenge and lord it over their former masters--which their former masters will not accept.
He says, "They are committed to giving "Iraq,"... a chance."
Of course they are. They want to rule the whole thing and to get their revenge on the Sunni/Baathists!
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freelancer
April 12, 2007, 8:56 a.m.There are a lot of dictatorships in this world: Turkmenistan, North Korea, Cuba, Burma, Saudi Arabia, Belarus etc. So America should attack each of these contries just to give the people there right of self determination? At least foreigners that visit these states do not afraid to be shot or kindapped in the street. The same was in pre-war Iraq, look at it now.
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edromar2
April 12, 2007, 8:54 a.m.Sm43 asks,
"...what are we to do other than keep our troops in there, try our best to keep them from slaughtering themselves, and give the government the time it needs to function and provide for its own security (so that America can go home)?"
Duh? They are slaughtering each other BECAUSE the US is in there supporting the Shiite government that the Sunnis must resist for the sake of their lives and livelihoods and secular freedom from theocracy. Only if we get out of the way will the Shiite central government have any motive to come to terms with the Sunni/Baathists!
AS LONG AS WE ARE THERE KILLING SUNNI/BAATHISTS FOR THEM (Sorry for the caps lock--but consider that mere emphasis)the central government will only want us to leave so they can ethnically cleanse Iraq of Sunni/Baathistsecularists.
Some, like the al Sadr, and other militias want us to get the hell out just so they can be unimpeded in their revenge on the others.
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edromar2
April 12, 2007, 8:56 a.m.Sm43:
We broke it like a bull in a china shop. But the only way to keep from breaking it more is, like the bull, to get the hell out. As long as the bull stays in the shop, we have nothing to look for but more destruction.
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edromar2
April 12, 2007, 9:37 a.m.sm43 objected to my claim that "These people [Sunni] are insurgents just like the loyalists were in the thirteen colonies during our revolution," by sayingL
"Pretty bold assumptions from someone sitting in front of their monitor."
They are not assumptions they are conclusions based on evidence and knowing something about Iraq, its history, and that of the American Revolution.
The grandfather of my grandfather who raised me (and who we each knew), was sent from the Marshall clan in Virginia, first to Boston, and then on up to Nova Scotia where he founded marshallstown south of Digby, because even such families as produced John Marshall, Chief Justice, had to balance their chances for survival of their families.
I did overstate the similarities by thoughtlessly saying the one case was "just" like the other. It was, of course, only like the other is certain regards that I was talking about.
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edromar2
April 12, 2007, 9:42 a.m.sm43
And I have not just been "sitting at my monitor."
Now I have to drive about 35 miles before I get to another computer to use. Hope you will still be here to answer, because you still have not got the idea. Of course the Shiites wanted the shell of a democracy before the change it to a theocracy. Thart gave them the power they needed tio do what they wanted--and despite all the plants we have in Iraq, that is not good for us.
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earthlover
April 12, 2007, 9:46 a.m.vision of hindsight is an easy thing to know. apart from the fact that iraq should never have been invaded anyway, why did nobody in the bush administration question the countless iraqi refugees all over the world as to what they thought the secterian implications of an invasion by a western power would be? whatever happens now just seems to be more deaths on all sides, lives lost and families destroyed. an answer needs to be found now.
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bonaroo
April 12, 2007, 10:16 a.m.Isn't Blackwater USA in charge of security in the green zone? How did this breach happen? I hope this leads to more scrutiny of this shadow army.
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DoseASpinoza
April 12, 2007, 10:36 a.m.What I find most offensive is an American general calling for Iraq's border nations to recognize that Iraq is a sovereign nation and stop meddling. Just like we've been doing, right?
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Daylight
April 12, 2007, 10:43 a.m.This clearly shows that mission to steal Iraqi wealth is doomed and Bush is stuck in the mud. This seems to be a never ending violence, initiated and supported by the evil regime of George Bush
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Sieben
April 12, 2007, 10:47 a.m.Who is the enemy in IRAQ, (Could be the person standing next to you ) Bush get your brave ,but mislead troops out of IRAQ
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tryinghard
April 12, 2007, 2:07 p.m.mmmmm? 12 years from now. Nothing has changed?
I guess regime change in the USA did nothing?
And here I thought this would all change on 1/20/09.
Oh that's right democrats will still be blaming Bush.
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