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POPSGay in Iraq The first comment in response to this article : webparent, Tulsa (8/17/2009 7:29:30 AM) "While I do not agree with such measures I also do not agree with homosexuality......these Sunni's are following the way of the curan and the bible. Maybe people should reconsider not being gay. Whether its their choice or not is irrelevant. They can make a change. If nothing else they can be celibate. It is not the natural way of life nor is it in god's will. I and others will pray that this torture stops and new choices are made." Read more at source...
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POPSWe’re All A**holes Says Obama’s Green Czar Well if we're a**holes, then in response I will say that he and his kind are a bunch of degenerate che shirt wearing, hugo chavez buttlicking wankers who are getting paid by the taxpayers to destroy America with their rants and insults and neo-Marxist philosophies from their government offices. Yes folks. You and I paying this wanker's salary, but we can't fire him. Nice gig he has no? UPDATE: Here's another video from the Red Czar where he makes polluting a racial thing. Green Jobs Czar Says ‘White Polluters’ Steered Poison Into Minority Communities http://www.breitbart.tv/green-jobs-czar-says-white-polluters-steered-poison-into-minority-communities/
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POPSHuman Rights Watch condemns gay 'social cleansing' in Iraq This makes me sick what they are doing to these innocent men.... I cannot believe the news some days - it makes me want to crawl back into bed. How is it that people are so evil to do these things to innocent people? This is equivalent to what Hitler did to gay men...he tortured them....
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POPSAbu Ghraib? Too Bad U.S. took pictures and humiliated them; they kill, mutilate and behead their victims....cutting off their heads while they are alive..I've seen the videos...Too Bad they don't like Guantanamo!
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POPSCombat Operations in Fallujah by Dahr Jamail As the calendar turned to May, April was the deadliest month since September for US troops, with at least 18 dead, doubling the previous month's total. April also found the most troops killed in combat in a month so far this year. April was also the deadliest month for Iraqis in over a year.
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POPSIraq: Good News is No News He points out that this was a real setback for Iran and it's influence there. I hope he is correct. And I hope that Pres. Obama does nothing (as Krauthammer adds) to undermine or reverse the progress that has been made there. Iraq can be a strategic ally and an economic boom-country in the region providing prosperity for its citizens and the world.
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POPSUS-IRAQ: Obama Withdrawal Decision It was Keane who protected Petraeus's interests in ensuring the maximum number of troops in Iraq against the efforts by other military leaders to accelerate troop withdrawal in 2007 and 2008. As Bob Woodward reported in "The War Within", Keane persuaded President George W. Bush to override the concerns of the Joint Chiefs of Staff about the stress of prolonged U.S. occupation of Iraq on the U.S. Army and Marine Corps as well its impact on the worsening situation in Afghanistan. Keane had also prevailed on Gates in April 2008 to make Petraeus the new commander of CENTCOM. Keane argued that keeping Petraeus in the field was the best insurance against a Democratic administration reversing the Bush policy toward Iraq. Keane had operated on the assumption that a Democratic president would probably not take the political risk of rejecting Petraeus's recommendation on the pace of troop withdrawal from Iraq.
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POPSShoe-Thrower was Reacting to US Aerial Bombings In related news, al-Zaidi has apparently been abused by Iraqi forces while under arrest, suffering "a broken arm and ribs," along with internal bleeding. Yeah, George. Iraq's a real goddam paradise now. You must be so proud.
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POPSIraq Rally for Bush Shoe Attacker "This is a farewell kiss, you dog," he yelled in Arabic as he threw his shoes. "This is from the widows, the orphans and those who were killed in Iraq." Correspondents say the journalist's tirade was echoed by Arabs across the Middle East who are fed up with US policy in the region. "He deserves to be hit with 100, not just one or two shoes. Who wants him to come here?" said a man in Baghdad. But his view was not expressed by everyone. "I think this incident is unnecessary, to be honest. That was a press conference, not a war. If someone wants to express his opinion he should do so in the proper manner, not this way," said another Baghdad resident. Doesn't that Nike commercial say; "Just do it" ? .:)
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POPSIraqi Parliament Passes U.S. Security Pact November 27, 2008
The pact was backed by the ruling coalition's Shi'ite and Kurdish blocs. Sunni Arab lawmakers gave their approval on the condition that a national referendum on the pact be held by July 30. But a number of deputies remain fiercely opposed to allowing U.S. troops to stay three more years in the country. A bloc of 30 lawmakers loyal to anti-U.S. Shi'ite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr chanted protests and held banners at today's session. Under the deal, all U.S. military bases are to be turned over to Iraq following the U.S. withdrawal. It will also ban the United States, which currently holds some 17,000 detainees in Iraq, to hold prisoners indefinitely without charge. The pact is valid for three years, but either party can terminate it with one year's notice. U.S. President George W. Bush on November 27 congratulated the Iraqi government on passing the pact. Compiled from agency reports Source: http://www.rferl.org/content/Iraq_Parliament_Passes_US_Security_Pact/13537
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POPSUS Forces Capture 14 Iraqi Shia Terrorists In Baghdad would disband the Mahdi Army and form a small, secretive military arm to fight Coalition forces in June. Sadr's moves caused shockwaves in the Mahdi Army, as some of the militia's leaders wished to continue the fight against US forces in Baghdad and in southern and central Iraq. The League of the Righteous receives funding, training, weapons, and direction from Iran's Qods Force, the country's secretive special operations group that backs terror groups such as Lebanese Hezbollah. In a recent message issued by Sadr where he rejected the US-Iraqi security agreement, he said he "extends his hand to the mujahideen in the so-called Asaib but not their leaderships who have been distracted by politics and mortal life from the Sadrs and the interests of Iraq and Iraqis."
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POPSOne Surge Does Not Fit All producing the forces necessary to help hold difficult neighborhoods against the enemy. By 2007, the surge, for most Iraqis, could have an Iraqi face. And the political scene in Iraq had shifted. Moktada al-Sadr, the firebrand cleric, declared a cease-fire in February 2007. The best indication that timing is everything may be that there had been earlier surges without the same effect as the 2007 surge. In 2005, troop levels in Iraq were increased to numbers nearly equal to the 2007 surge — twice. But the effects were not as durable because large segments of the Sunni population were still providing sanctuary to insurgents, and Iraq’s security forces were not sufficiently capable or large enough. During my last weeks in office, I recommended to President Bush that he consider Gen. David Petraeus as commander of coalition forces in Iraq, as General Casey’s tour was coming to an end.
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POPS War's Over Indicator #52 Berlin-style walls put in place to keep Shias and Sunnis apart, have been gradually coming down. A 5-metre high barrier separating the Shia area of Abu Safeen and the Sunni zone of al-Fudal, was removed almost two months ago. Violence has yet to return. Baghdad’s civic planners seem intent on making connections. But the small steps they have taken so far pale next to the grand plan for a metro. A train line under Baghdad was first flagged under Saddam Hussein during the 1970s, but shelved owing to three decades of war, blockades and invasion. One of the new proposed subway lines would run 11 miles from Shia-dominated Sadr City in the east to Adhamiya in north Baghdad. The other would traverse 13 miles and link mixed central Baghdad to the primarily Sunni western suburbs. Both lines would have 20 stations each and run through a patchwork quilt of sectarian neighbourhoods, which largely remain divided, despite the security improvements.
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POPSWhen is a holocaust not a holocaust? (cont.)Thus, the number of people available for being killers or victims is markedly reduced. Moreover, extensive ethnic cleansing has taken place in the country (another good indication of progress, n'est-ce pas?). Sunnis and Shiites are now living more in their own special enclaves than before, none of those stinking mixed communities with their unholy mixed marriages, so violence of the sectarian type has also gone down; and the powerful movement of Shiite leader Muqtada al-Sadr has had a cease-fire in effect for many months, unconnected to the surge. On top of all this, US soldiers, in the face of numerous "improvised explosive devices" on the roads, have been venturing out a lot less (for fear of things like ... well, dying), so the violence against our noble lads is also down. Remember that insurgent attacks on American forces is how the Iraqi violence all began in the first place.
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POPS"Democratic Iraq" promoting Islamic deathsquads against gays Reporter Peter Tatchell- Saddam Hussein was a bloody tyrant. I campaigned against his blood-stained misrule for nearly 30 years. But while Saddam was president, there was certainly no danger of gay people being assassinated in their homes and in the street by religious fanatics. Since his overthrow, the violent persecution of lesbians and gays is much worse. Even children suspected of being gay are abducted and later found shot in the head.
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POPSWhat counts as 'success' in Iraq? Cont.... This was widely predicted before the war was started, and it is now apparent. All of Iraq's leaders, including the president, a Kurd, are friendly with Iran and regard it as an important ally. In Bush circles, this new prominence for Iran is never linked to the war, as if occurring by itself.
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POPSA Way Out? If it wasn't for the thousands of US servicemen's lives lost and the hundreds of thousands Iraqi lives lost this entire escapade would be humorous. The Stooges in the White House still might find a way to blow this. Come on 2009!
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