We need to start the drumbeat now: Bush "lost" Iraq to the Ayatollahs!

[yellowcanine]

After January 2006 Iraq will be firmly under the control of Shiite religious parties under the control of the Iranian ayatollahs. By this time next year it is likely that Kurdistan will have split off after annexing oil rich Kirkuk. That may trigger an invasion of northern Iraq by Turkey. The Sunnis will be in open revolt against the dominant Shiites. Way to go smirky boy.

http://smh.com.au/news/world/us-hopes-of-secular-iraqi-state-fade-away/2005/12/20/1135032020005.html

[BobRossi]

1. How true! nt

[leftchick]

2. yep, here is Iraq's new leader....

[OldLeftieLawyer]

3. Hey, he wanted ELECTIONS

He got ELECTIONS.

Fuckface and his thugs don't do very well without Diebold and elections they can't rig.

So, now they get a lesson in what democracy really means - from Iraq.

The irony of this would be so delicious if it weren't so hideously tragic.

[katinmn]

4. But wait! Junior has an out! Remember the story planted in the NYT?

An anonymous source said three truckloads of fake ballots had been brought into Iraq from iran before the election. One truckload was caught, but rumor was that two other truckloads made it past the guards.

Of course, we've never SEEN an example of a fake ballot. And of course we can't investigate an ANONYMOUS source. But I think they have a plan in their back pockets to call the election illegitimate.

[leveymg]

5. More accurately: Bush Gave Iraq to the Mullahs.

The southern part of Iraq is now effectively the western-most province of Iran. That was the foreseeable outcome of overthrowing the minority Sunni regime.

There's some oil in the south, but most of it is in the Kurdish north. The thinking is that the Kurds will be easy to deal with on the most advantageous terms to the multinational oil companies, as they are dependent on the US and EU for protection from Turkey and the other two Iraqi factions.

[elehhhhna]

10. He calls them "Moo-lahs". Got confused and thought it meant cashmoney.

[leveymg]

12. Did I hear you imply the Mullahs gave moola to Dubya's papa?

No, it must have been all that manna from Jeddah sheiks, which he pronounces sheets.

Sufferin' succotas-s-s-h-h-h.;-)

[NoFederales]

6. Have not heard any Iraq election news--have Shiites won control?

Could Iraq split into three regions peaceably?

NoFederales

[hwmnbn]

7. This story is also being carried on....

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/article334476.ece

with an even more dire prediction.

"Iraq is disintegrating. The first results from the parliamentary election last week show the country is dividing between Shia, Sunni and Kurdish regions.

Religious fundamentalists now have the upper hand. The secular and nationalist candidate backed by the US and Britain was humiliatingly defeated.

snip

The election marks the final shipwreck of American and British hopes of establishing a pro-Western secular democracy in a united Iraq."

Of course we'll have to wait for final results to be official but......IT DON"T LOOK GOOD! :popcorn:

[yellowcanine]

8. My prediction: by June 2006 Republicans congress critters will be

talking impeachment.

[hwmnbn]

11. from your keyboard.......

to God's monitor. O8)

[global1]

9. *'s Contingency --- Set Saddam Free. n/t

[The Magistrate]

13. Indeed, Sir

Tell the people the U.S. Army went into Iraq to create the Islamic Republic of Iraq and turn it over the the Iranian Ayatollahs, and they will be damned unhappy....

"LET'S GO GET THOSE BUSH BASTARDS!"