Iran 'behind attacks on British'

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Iran can pretty much do whatever they want to do in Iraq now, they basically have the moral support of 65% of the country.

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Iran can pretty much do whatever they want to do in Iraq now, they basically have the moral support of 65% of the country.

Says who?  Do you assume that the shiites are all freinds of the Iranian regime.  If you made such a blanket statement about blacks, then you would be decried as a racist in about the same time if would take blink.  Hell, most of the clerics don't even support the Iranian and nor do most of the people in Iran itself, so what are you basing this statement off of?

It was Khomeini's dream to have Jaafari and Sistani be the power-makers in Iraq during the 1980s. We simply fulfilled it, the election results LEGITMIZED it.

I haven't heard from those student protesters in a long time.

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Old CIA docs even show a belief that he might have been a closet athiest, he wasn't very devout if he was enemies of both Khomeini and bin Laden.

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However, today, in "liberated" Iraq, the Kurdish party militias (known as "peshmerga," which translates as "those who are willing to die"), are carrying out an ethnic cleansing of Arab Sunnis of their own.Arab and Turkmen families are being turned out at gunpoint.

The Kurds, unleashed by their American "liberators," have engaged in a program of systematic kidnapping, in which anyone who resists their rule is "disappeared" and spirited away to an underground jail, as the Washington Post reported.

The Kurds have enjoyed a largely undeserved reputation as the most democratic, admirable, and American-like of Iraq's minorities, mainly on account of their Official Victim status.

Now that they are on top, however, the Kurds are instituting their own reign of terror, one with the potential to be every bit as brutal as the Ba'athist version. Meet the new boss – same as the old boss. It's an old song, and the lyrics aren't any different when they're sung in Kurdish.

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The Islamic world of today is far more complex than the colonialism of the 1800s.

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Saddam Hussein was a strict secularist, he even outright killed religous Muslims.