This article is from the Washington Post, not Soros.
Shiite Clerics' Rivalry Deepens In Fragile Iraq
By Sudarsan Raghavan
Washington Post Foreign Service
Thursday, December 21, 2006; A01
BAGHDAD -- In the quest to create a new Iraq, two powerful clerics compete for domination, one from within the government, the other from its shadows.
Both wear the black turban signifying their descent from the prophet Muhammad. They have fought each other since the days their fathers vied to lead Iraq's majority Shiites. They hold no official positions, but their parties each control 30 seats in the parliament. And they both lead militias that are widely alleged to run death squads.
But in the view of the Bush administration, Abdul Aziz al-Hakim is a moderate and Moqtada al-Sadr is an extremist. As the U.S. president faces mounting pressure to reshape his Iraq policy, administration officials say they are pursuing a Hakim-led moderate coalition of Shiites, Sunnis and Kurdish parties in order to isolate extremists, in particular Sadr.
Hakim, who once verbally attacked U.S. policy, now senses a political opportunity and is softening his stance toward the Americans. Sadr's position is hardening. Young and aggressive, he has suspended his participation in Iraq's government and is intensifying his demands for U.S. troops to leave the country.
The following article was not composed by Soros.
In Corruption, New Government of Iraq Faces a Tough Old Foe
By Solomon Moore
Los Angeles Times
cicerone imposter wrote:This article is from the Washington Post, not Soros.
Shiite Clerics' Rivalry Deepens In Fragile Iraq
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Right! It's an article published by a news paper directed by the Soros gang.
cicerone imposter wrote:The following article was not composed by Soros.
In Corruption, New Government of Iraq Faces a Tough Old Foe
By Solomon Moore
Los Angeles Times
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Right! It's an article published by a newspaper directed by the Soros gang.
al-Qaeda pimps are unusual in that they solicit clients for their people to screw, instead of soliciting clients to screw their people.
"The Army is ordering injured troops to go to Iraq". Damn Bushie and his unjust, unneeded war.
For those who still hasn't figured out how Bush really feels about our troops have kept their blinders on. He's also cutting veteran's benefits beginning in 2009 when it is anticipated a higher number of our troops in Iraq and Afghanistan will need medical care.
Bush's "support our troops" rhetoric is simply spoken by a psychopath.
Cheney's forked tongue:
Cheney: Congress undermining U.S. troops
By MATTHEW LEE, Associated Press Writer
40 minutes ago
WASHINGTON - Vice President Dick Cheney challenged lawmakers Monday to prove their support for U.S. troops and the war on terrorism by approving the Bush administration's requests for financing military action in Iraq and Afghanistan.
"When members of Congress pursue an anti-war strategy that's been called 'slow bleeding,' they are not supporting the troops, they are undermining them," Cheney said in a speech to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee.
Bush and Cheney has no problem sending them to war, but refuses to take care of them when they return with physical and mental injuries.
From the NY Times:
March 12, 2007
For War's Gravely Injured, Challenge to Find Care
Bush keeps asking more money for war, but seems to ignore the plights of our veterans and citizens. That many Americans still fails to see this injustice shows the ignorance that is still pervasive in our country.
March 12, 2007
Citizens Who Lack Papers Lose Medicaid
WHEN TO STAY AND WHEN TO LEAVE IRAQ
We will probably lose in Iraq if we assume we will lose in Iraq.
We will probably win in Iraq if we assume we will win in Iraq.
I for one assume we will win in Iraq.
Who wants us to lose in Iraq?
George Soros in his 2003 edition of his book, page 15, The Alchemy of Finance
"My greatest fear is that the Bush Doctrine will succeed--that Bush will crush the terrorists, tame the rogue states of the axis of evil, and usher in a golden age of American supremacy. American supremacy is flawed and bound to fail in the long run."
George Soros In his 2004 book, page 159, The Bubble of American Supremacy
"The principles of the Declaration of Independence are not self-evident truths but arrangements necessitated by our inherently imperfect understanding."
When the Iraqis decide they can protect themselves without our help, and the Iraqi government asks us to leave, we must remove our military from Iraq as rapidly as we are able, but only after they ask us to leave.
cicerone imposter wrote:Bush keeps asking more money for war, but seems to ignore the plights of our veterans and citizens. That many Americans still fails to see this injustice shows the ignorance that is still pervasive in our country.
March 12, 2007
Citizens Who Lack Papers Lose Medicaid
By ROBERT PEAR
WASHINGTON, March 11
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The American people would have no problem seeing this injustice if they were to be convinced it were actually occuring. So many of the articles you post have been found to be malarkey that we don't believe them without a link to the article itself plus corroborating evidence that what the article says is true.
Cheney says "support our troops," but backstabs them when they come home with injuries. That's support? Bush and Cheney have no shame. What congress is attempting to do is to limit the war, and start bringing our soldiers home. Fighting in the middle of a civil war is a no-win situation.
Cheney challenges 'anti-war' lawmakers By MATTHEW LEE, Associated Press Writer
15 minutes ago
WASHINGTON - Anti-war lawmakers in Congress are "undermining" U.S. troops in Iraq by trying to limit President Bush's spending requests for military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, Vice President Dick Cheney said Monday.
Hitting out at lawmakers who profess to back the troops but oppose Bush's plans in Iraq, Cheney said proof of their commitment would come as they consider legislation to provide nearly $100 billion for the rest of this year's costs of the wars.
The House plans to begin considering a bill this week that would fully finance the administration's request. Senate action is expected to come later.
"When members of Congress pursue an anti-war strategy that's been called 'slow bleed,' they are not supporting the troops, they are undermining them," Cheney said in a speech to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee.
"Anyone can say they support the troops and we should take them at their word, but the proof will come when it's time to provide the money," he said.
No, the time already came and went when they failed to treat our veterans with the proper care they deserve.
Quote:
We will probably win in Iraq if we assume we will win in Iraq.
Ah, the Green Lantern theory of diplomacy and warfare.
We can only fail, if we believe we can fail
Such hubris has been the end of more than one nation. I pray that we find humility before we suffer the same fate.
Cycloptichorn
ican wrote :
Quote:We will probably win in Iraq if we assume we will win in Iraq.
that sounds to me like it's coming from some guru who is making the rounds of TV shows lately peddling his book .
this fellow claims , that if wish for something strongly enough and have positive thoughts , success will come to us .
i think the book is for sale at $39.95 .
hbg
And most of us already understand that the $39.95 is way too much for a useless book.
From AP:
Congressional committees and a slew of investigative boards are scrutinizing the treatment of wounded troops and veterans by the military's entire medical system, as well as by the Department of Veterans Affairs, headed by Jim Nicholson. The probes come with the administration already struggling to defend its widely unpopular war policies in Iraq, and the Democratic-led Congress citing poor care for troops as the latest instance of incompetent administration planning for the conflict.
