Iraq's Sadr bloc returns to parliament

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Iraq's Sadr bloc returns to parliament - Turkish Daily News Jul 18, 2007

BAGHDAD - Reuters

The political bloc of fiery Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr said yesterday it had ended a boycott of the Iraqi parliament, potentially easing deadlock over steps to ease sectarian tension racking the country.

Washington is pressing for power-sharing laws to help reconcile majority Shiite and minority Sunni Arabs. However, several of parliament's 275 members had stopped attending and the rest go off on a month-long break on Aug. 1.

"We have ended our suspension in parliament. We are back," Nassar al-Rubaei, spokesman for the bloc in parliament, told Reuters.

The movement has 30 seats in parliament, which accounts for a quarter of the total held by the ruling Shiite Alliance of Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki.

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@Drnaline,

Sadr has to go. He's a loose canon on deck, to coin a squid term. We should stage offensive upon offensive to obliterate his forces.

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@Pinochet73,

Pinochet73;28706 wrote:

Sadr has to go. He's a loose canon on deck, to coin a squid term. We should stage offensive upon offensive to obliterate his forces.

Yea, that will really motivate them to do what they need to do to fix themselves.

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@92b16vx,

92b16vx;28715 wrote:

Yea, that will really motivate them to do what they need to do to fix themselves.

Can you see him doing anything good for the country if he were to prevail?

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@Drnaline,

it's too late now, we have to negotiate with him, we should have taken out all armed militias in 2003, but we didn't

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@Drnaline,

I think the mission will fail horribly if we allow the Shia Crescent to solidify -- Tehran, Baghdad, Hezbollah country.

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@Drnaline,

Because the sunnis have been so much better?

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@Drnaline,

So now we have sharp declines in sectarian violence, drastic reductions in U.S. casualties, the Sunni tribes uniting with us against Al Qaida, the top Al Qaida terrorist in Iraq getting captured, and even two admitted Bush-haters from the left-wing Brookings Institute coming back from Iraq and telling us that the surge is working, and that we need to extend it.

These are the circumstances under which Democrats demand we surrender Iraq to terrorists more immediately.

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@Drnaline,

Today is gonna be a good day. Welcome back Aqua

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@Drnaline,

Drnaline;28904 wrote:

Today is gonna be a good day. Welcome back Aqua

:headbang: Good to be here.

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@92b16vx,

92b16vx;28885 wrote:

Because the sunnis have been so much better?

They're both very unstable and treacherous, but we can't allow the Shias to take over the Middle East. That appears to be a bottom-line reality. :headbang:

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@Pinochet73,

Pinochet73;29016 wrote:

They're both very unstable and treacherous, but we can't allow the Shias to take over the Middle East. That appears to be a bottom-line reality. :headbang:

Yeah, since when were our options for alliances ever any better than the lesser of two evils?

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@aquapub,

aquapub;29028 wrote:

Yeah, since when were our options for alliances ever any better than the lesser of two evils?

Exactly. The unpleasant truth is that we must manage this conflict based on our own interests and those of Israel. A Shia victory in Iraq would mean increased attacks against Israel, and accelerated escalation of American military involvement. It would foretell an eternity of warfare in that part of the world. We can't let it happen.:thumbup:

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