Does it really matter if the people you armed last month are the people you are fighting today? Should we really care if the people we've been bribing yesterday are the same folks lobbing mortar shell into the Green Zone next week? These are just details meant to confuse the issue of how important it is to stay the course - no matter how circuitous that course might be. I'm sure that, once we have the leadership in place that's willing to occupy Iraq for the next hundred years ... or whenever the oil runs out - whichever comes first ... there'll be plenty of time to figure out who are the good guys, who are the bad guys and what kind of weaponry we'll be needing to kill them both.

Iraq is the 21st century's Manifest Destiny, and McBatty will be damned if he's going to let minor details like the distinction between Sunni and Shi'a, and their various factions both inside and outside the government of Iraq, cloud the issue of how important it is that we stay.

Besides, I'm sure the insurgency is in its last throes.

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The old man has gone senile... It all makes sense now. I wouldn't even trust leaving my pets with him, let alone the country... Now that's a scary thought.

I get them confused, too. I think they get each other confused.

Know this: IF there is an election it will be rigged and get use to saying President McInsane

Very soon, 90% chance before May there WILL be a nuclear attack on Iran. Unlike Iraq M$M isn't focusing on this NEXT WAR it's being "UNDER-REPORTED". But not for anyone that's been paying attention.

For over 2yrs war-drums have gotten louder but just recently stakes got much higher:

Fallon resigns

bush and cheney globe-trot making deals, why would they be making deals as lame-ducks?

Naval deployment reaches pre-Iraq invasion level

Troops amass along Iran border

bush accuses Iranian banks of "money-laundering" and warns all international banks from doing business with Iran

Ass-kissing-little-chickenshit Betray-us gives unsubstanciated statement saying Iran attacked Green Zone (?)

right after cheney leaves Saudi-Arabia their leading newspaper has a series of articles on nuclear fallout

Leaked Russian intelligence reports suspect an attack sometime in April

Now this soft-sell of how Iran is the real threat

When taken together means an attack coming

Can't happen? Why not? It might not even take another false-flag the economy collapsing might be enough but these cretins like a show so look for something bigger than 9/11

Masses are Skock&Awed Marshall Law easily declared and "if" there's an election can't have no "peace" candidate or women in "time-of-war"

Can you say Pres John McCain?

knew you could

10% chance this insanity doesn't happen - is on us

To Mr. McCain, and too many other Americans, "they're all the same."

Since Mr. McCain bases part of the rationale for his candidacy on his supposed foreign policy experience and knowledge, *repeated* incidents like this make it look like he is not up to the job.

As someone who lived through hearing Ronald Reagan's idiotic generalizations on a variety of topics, I don't think I could stand repeating the experience with McCain. George W. Bush sees the world in terms of absolutes and utter contradictions, and see what that has gotten us: $4.00/gallon gasoline, a struggling economy, a worn-out military; McCain is Bush's third term.

We all want our sons to waste their precious lives dying in some stupid war over oil that will run out anyway, right? Well...don't we? Of course we do! So here' s the plan:

We all just start calling anyone we want to declare as the "enemy" as Al-Qaeda Shoooonies. That ought to do it.

Where's the story about Obama confusing Iraq and Iran during the testimony?

The Sunni and Shia insurgent groups are similar in ideology inasmuch as their desires for an end state of contemporary Iraq"s political transformation and asymmetric tactics to achieve that end state. JAM and Al-Qaeda are both Reactionary groups prone to terrorist / guerrilla attacks. JAM because of Iranian interest has access to better quality weapons but both JAM and Al-Qaeda tend to support "version" of a theocracy (if not exclusive authoritarian oligarchy based on Imams / caliphate) based in Sharia law. The South East part of the Iraq (now currently in the news) was at one time part of Persia (Iran) hence a large part of the population being is of Shia faith. I would argue the real reason there is a difference between Shia and Sunnis is more a result of cultural propensity to urbanization vs. nomad'ism but that is another topic. However, the area was conquered by the Ottoman Empire (Sunni) and every since been a part of Ottoman Empire. The gerrymandered boarders of Iraq today are a result of the defeat of axis powers in WWI, Ottoman Empire collapse, and the 1918 League of Nations mandate granting the area to the United Kingdom.

Just thought I would shear!

AMERICA WAKE UP...

This man doesn't know anything about anything foreign... he said Putin was the president of Germany!!!


Its time our leaders be accountable, and actually know what the hell is going on before they thrust us into the middle of BS!!!!

If he can't get simple facts right, without someone whispering in his ear, he does not need to be president, he needs to be in an old folks home!!!!

I don't think starting wars across the globe is what is in the best interest of AMERICA... if we are dumb enough to elect Bush round 3... we get what we deserve!!!!

MISERY AND AGONY!!!

The old man has dementia, and he can't keep them straight, and he is fixated, just like Bush and Cheney.

I urge you to read this article. it's the perfect primer for all Americans to understand the relationships of the different factions in Iraq, Iran and much of the middle east in general.
I especially encourage you to send this to all your friends and family, journalists, and politicians.

The situation involves so many factions of Shia and Sunni. Who does the U.S. support? How does that change, or does it?

Please read, it's one of the best and most riveting articles I've ever read of it's type. You won't be able to stop reading.

Click on it now and save it to read later if you don't want to read it now.

Thanks so much.

http://www.alternet.org/waroniraq/81147/?page=entire

Al queda is NOT a threat in Iraq! These are all lies. Read this!

http://www.senate.gov/~foreign/testimony/2008/RosenTestimony080402p.pdf

Sen. McCain is not confused he simply does not understand the differences.

JOHN MCCAIN: "There are numerous threats to security in Vietnam and the future of Vietnam. Do you still view the Cong in Vietnam as a major threat?"

GEN. DAVID PETRAEUS: "Uhhh....it WAS a major threat. Though it is certainly as not as major a threat as it was say, 35 years ago. Uh, Senator?"

MCCAIN: ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ

Well......gosh.........they both start with 's's and they all look alike........give the old guy a break!

My, oh my, Methuselah and his much ignored senior moments...tsk, tsk, tsk

It's only a gaffe if he doesn't mean to say it. Perhaps he chooses to "confuse" the too so voters do, too.

Gotta be Alzheimers....he can't remember anything, and personifies an unwillingness to learn.

shi ite is what's in his diapers