Words from John Murtha

[Danzig]

Originally Posted by boldruler

It has turned Sunni v Shiite and it is not the business of America. Let them have their Civil War and figure out who they are as a nation. America lost 600,000 men (2% of the population at the time- equivalent to 6 million today) to figure out what it was. You can't tell countries what they will be, they have to figure it out themselves.

As for Afghanistan, we should stay there, in fact we should have never gone to Iraq and we should have put all our resources into Afghanistan. It would be much more of a success had we. The problem is the idiot neocons and their friends couldn't make the money off that war. FACE IT, the Iraq war was planned long before 9-11, some feel it was planned in the mid 90's after the first Iraq war, back when we had a competent Bush as President, not his son.

it's 'turned' sunni vs shiite?? yeah, it sure has, for over a thousand years it's been sunni vs shiite. ever since the days of mohammed when islam was born. that's how old those two sects are.

Originally Posted by Danzig188

it's 'turned' sunni vs shiite?? yeah, it sure has, for over a thousand years it's been sunni vs shiite. ever since the days of mohammed when islam was born. that's how old those two sects are.

It hasn't been sunni v shiite in Iraq for a few years. Remarkably they put it on hold and concentrated on America. Iran has got involved though once again and now they are back to their sunni shiite fighting. Right now if you try to book a hotel in southern Iraq you better speak Farsi. That is all you need to know.

[Downthestretch55]

GR,
Well worth the time it takes to read....

http://www.commondreams.org/views06/0729-20.htm

[GenuineRisk]

Originally Posted by Downthestretch55

GR,
Well worth the time it takes to read....

http://www.commondreams.org/views06/0729-20.htm

Interesting and depressing.

Here's some interesting articles that caught my attention today in between races at Saratoga (yay, OTB channel!)

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/30/us...rtner=homepage

http://salon.com/mwt/feature/2006/07...urdain_beirut/

And on the lighter side:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FHsOr...eanor%20holmes

Funniest thing I've seen in ages.

[Downthestretch55]

Originally Posted by GenuineRisk

Interesting and depressing.

Here's some interesting articles that caught my attention today in between races at Saratoga (yay, OTB channel!)

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/30/us...rtner=homepage

http://salon.com/mwt/feature/2006/07...urdain_beirut/

And on the lighter side:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FHsOr...eanor%20holmes

Funniest thing I've seen in ages.

GR,
The first article is indeed interesting. Took a while to read but worth it.
Hey, don't these conserves know that Jesus had no "party affiliation"? Duh!
He turned the "religious establishment" on its head too.
Later I'll read the other articles...racing sometimes gets in the way.
Thanks for the reads.
DTS

[Danzig]

500 gallons of water for a pound of meat? no way that's right. five HUNDRED?

but i do my part on the local meat source. venison, it does a body good.