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Iraqi Leader Faces Pivotal Moment

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BAGHDAD (AP) -- The widening clashes between Iraqi forces and Shiite militiamen mean more than a showdown on the streets: it could be a defining moment for U.S.-backed Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki.

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{"commentId":1627842,"authorDomain":"jazzman646"}
it could be a defining moment for U.S.-backed Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki.

Ind. Voter...not good... I doubt Maliki can handle it...

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Reply#1 - Thu Mar 27, 2008 6:41 PM EDT
{"commentId":1627919,"authorDomain":"eric-albert"}

Well, you always knew that when the U.S. and the CIA handpick collaborationist, fascist, thugs, eventually, would be forced out, as illegitimate expressions of illegal aggressions, illegal occupations, and foreign powers whose colonial, imperial interventions has resulted in the murder of a million Iraqis. Saddam was also our handpicked CIA thug, like Noriega of Panama, dictators we knew we supported.

The silly notion that we discovered later that they were......oh my gosh, "dictators', as the liberal whores who falsely claimed...."at least we got rid of a dictator" was hypocritical and nauseating, partiicpating in the distortion of history, ideology, and imperialism. We will get our asses kicked out, eventually in the Middle East....the Arabs, Persians and the third world, have had their fill of this corporate fascist Empire, and are just waiting for it to implode, without dollars, without rednecks, without liberal warhawk cheerleaders, without Zionist proxies to support another war. If the U.S. decides to attack Iran, another illegal aggression.....The U.S. soldiers will be overwhelmed by a world wide resistance to another occupation. It will also be the end of Amerikan Empire and their stupid surge.

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#1.1 - Thu Mar 27, 2008 7:05 PM EDT
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{"commentId":1628011,"authorDomain":"drfade3000"}

Pivotal Moment for what?
for attacking Iran
or for stayiing in Iraq infinitively to guard oil?

First they say that the operation is to boost progress then they say that Iran is behind violence in Iraq

Then Maliki gets the kick he deserves !

"Moqtada al-Sadr orders Iraq PM out of Basra" http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/03/26/wiraq326.xml

Dick Cheney gave the orders for Basra campaign http://www.roadstoiraq.com/2008/03/26/newspaper-dick-cheney-gave-the-orders-for-basra-campaign/

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Reply#2 - Thu Mar 27, 2008 7:33 PM EDT
{"commentId":1630339,"authorDomain":"drfade3000"}

Dismantling Iraqi police and army forces and building new forces by US is one of the ''failed success''

They can,t aford more than one battle at a time:

Areas of Baghdad fall to militias as Iraqi Army falters in Basra

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/iraq/article3631718.ece

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    Reply#3 - Fri Mar 28, 2008 12:20 PM EDT
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