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Just for your edification. Osama is Sunni as is Mullah Omar. As I
recall they both have lobbies for strict adherence to the tenets of
Islam. No?<br>
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db<br>
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Sunil Ramalingam wrote:<br>
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<p>Pat,</p>
<p>I'm not surprised that people in Kirkuk don't want strict Muslims
in charge; they're Sunnis, not Shiites. But the version of the
constitution that is being pushed by the Shiites will give the mullahs
far more control than they ever had under Hussein. They're going to
look more like Iran than anything else. </p>
<p>I don't think that was our goal when we invaded, no matter what
the pretext.<br>
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Sunil</p>
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To: <i>"vision2020" <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:vision2020@moscow.com"><vision2020@moscow.com></a></i><br>
Subject: <i>[Vision2020] Just info</i><br>
Date: <i>Tue, 30 Aug 2005 13:05:56 -0700</i><br>
>I had a fascinating talk with a soldier who is home from Iraq on
Saturday<br>
>about how things really are in Iraq. I had heard a talk show host
quote the<br>
>Brookings institute stats and found them to see how they correlate
with the<br>
>soldier experience.<br>
>One of the things the soldier told me was that there are mud homes
in Iraq<br>
>that look like they've been there 400 years and recently they have
satillite<br>
>dishes on them. I found this good news. Not that they may just be
watching<br>
>reruns of Dallas but that they may be watching the BBC, CNN, Fox or
anything<br>
>other than Al Jezera(spelling?). I was informed that they are and
that in<br>
>Kirkuk where he is working the people are very aware of why we are
there and<br>
>have no desire for us to leave soon. But, the children and the
teens are the<br>
>most encouraging part of his interworking with the people. The
zealot<br>
>muslums are oppresive to everyone and the children and teens know
it. They<br>
>want freedom and they know that the strict muslums don't offer it.
I have<br>
>also heard this about children and teens in Iran from people who
work there.<br>
>I don't know if any of you have had a chance to talk to soldiers or
those<br>
>who work for NGO's that are actually working in the area but I have
learned<br>
>a lot from them that you never see in the major news. But, blogs
and other<br>
>sites have the truth.<br>
>As an example: how many of you know that the counter rally in
Crawford was<br>
>attended by many parents of dead soldiers. Did anyone read in any
news<br>
>report or see any photo of the father removing the cross that
Sheehan and<br>
>Moveon.org have put up in Crawford?<br>
>I bet not!<br>
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>I can't be a Republican...I have always been gainfully employed!<br>
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