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12-01-2006, 04:53 PM
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Is Iraq in a "civil war"
Do you think the current conflict in Iraq qualifies as a civil war?
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12-01-2006, 04:56 PM
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Yes.
Though I think it wouldn't be as bad as it is if it weren't for outside assistance....Iran for example. -UC
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12-01-2006, 08:34 PM
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Yes! Matt Lauer said so.
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12-01-2006, 08:36 PM
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Yes, on their way to annihilation, thanks to outside forces (Iran, etc.)
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12-01-2006, 09:55 PM
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Yes, and has the very real potential to be worse than one. Tough to imagine the carnage getting any worse but that's where we stand, sadly. Don't know if anybody caught the Reuters story a couple days ago where the Saudi govt announced after any full US troop pullout, if necessary, they would use oil (specifically calling for the flooding of the oil market to plunge prices to deprive Iran of money to fund the Shiite militias), money, or weapons to support the Sunni Minority in Iraq. Could be looking at a potential regional war. Good times.
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12-01-2006, 10:25 PM
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Change Matt Lauer to 'Rush Limbaugh' or 'Bill O' Reilly' and you have a frightening large amount of people this is true for.
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12-01-2006, 10:29 PM
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Yeah...I'm just stealing the joke from The Daily Show.
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12-02-2006, 11:19 AM
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Opposing ethnic/sectarian neighborhoods in Bagdad are routinely bombarding each other with mortars. Opposing militias routinely go into other sectarian areas, kidnap men from the other group and later they find bodies dumped that have been tortured with electric drills and then shot and dumped out at the dge of town. Imagine if East Mount Airy and West Mount Airy residents were firing mortar shells at each other across Germantown Ave. indiscriminately killing "civilians" - women, children, the elderly - from the other side -would you call that a "civil war"? I would.
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12-02-2006, 06:23 PM
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Yes, but it's not just a civil war. It's a chaotic mess of criminal gangs, opportunist kidnapper seeking ransom, Shiites against Sunnis and Kurdish factions fighting over land. Combine that with
widespread anti-American sentiment, desparation and frustration and revenge seekers from holdovers of the old Baathist regime. Seems like it could just as easily be seen as a free-for-all as a civil war.
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