London Times article about Iraq produces another dazzling display of RW genius

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Just had to share some of the comments being left at the Times in response to their article Areas of Baghdad fall to militias as Iraqi Army falters in Basra.

I hope these guys are being paid to sound so pitifully ignorant of the facts.


This wasn't a "backlash attack by powerful Shia Muslim militias." and "retaliation for the Government's campaign to crack down on the Shia private armies". This is the Iraqi government supressing an Iranian proxy.

Motaqd Al Sadr and his "Mahdi Army" is funded and trained by Iran just like Hezbollah. The Mahdi Army is also the Shite version of Al Qaeda; it rules by murder, torture, and intimidation.

The Iranian backed Mahdi Army attacked government facilities and challenged the Iraqi government. Maliki has to deal with it if the Iraqi government is to survive.

Every time an oil pipeline blows up in Iraq, the Iraqis should blow up an Iranian pipeline.

Al Qaeda has almost been finished off. Motaqd Al Sadr knows he will be next. There is also a US election coming up and things were going well in Iraq. These attacks will help the Democrats; the "Bring the troops home now; Surrender Now" party. The Islamofascists know how to influence democratic elections; look at Spain.

Stephen Duval, Austin, TX


The Liberal enviro-wacko's who run the Democrat party won't let us drill for oil anywhere or build nuke plants. This extremist position has and will cause ALL present and future Presidents to send our heroic military personel into the Middle East to keep the oil flowing as more American blood will be shed. Yes, the BLOOD of our soldiers IS ON LIBERAL HANDS because they care more about an elk than the children of America. Now, one of you lefties tell me I'm wrong by giving facts, not the usual 3rd grade name calling you rely on. By the way, elk herds thrive around the warm pipelines. They love it!

brian y, birmingham, usa/MI


This is precisely why all those who have selfishly asserted that the coalition forces should withdraw from Iraq forthwith are, and always have been, very wrong indeed.

James_E._Petts, Burnham, England


The reason for $4.00 gas isn't because of the war, it is because the Democrats haven't allowed us to drill for oil in our own Country. They also haven't allowed a new refinery to be biult here in over 20 years. I addition, the lefties have forced oil companies to produce dozens of different formulations. These restrictions are the leading cause of the increased prices.

webo, Longmont, CO USA


Moqtada Al Sadr is not a cleric. He did not complete his required religious qualifications and so has no religious status at all.

His father was murdered by Saddam in 1999 and Sadr City was named after the father not the son. It used to be called Saddam City.

Moqtada Al Sadr is an ignorant rabble rouser who uses poverty and violence to get power. He is just like Saddam before him.

It should please us all that Prime Minister Maliki has found his moment and his resolve. These events have the potential to be the final, true turning point for Iraqis. The invasion of Iraq was a war of liberation. It is a shame that so many people have abused the mistakes over WMD and indulged in meaningless rants about oil to cloud the issue.

Those who opposed invasion would have left Iraqis under the brutal tyranny of Saddam and the impoverishment of UN sanctions needed to contain his ambitions.

The invasion was the only serious option in 2003.

Tim, Leeds, England


Gee, this war for oil just isn't working out too well is it my liberal friends? Seems like we could have just spent the $2 trillion on our gas tanks instead if it were about oil. Liberals complain when they think we're going to war to secure oil supplies, because it's 'imperialism'. Now they complain, like Rick from WI, about the price of oil because a story appears that indicate we didn't secure the oil.... wah? Huh? eh? Say again?

I'm a conservative, Rick, and I agree with your old liberal stance that we shouldn't still be on the ground in Iraq with soldiers. We should not be nation building. But we are, so deal with it. Bush, Cheney, and Rumsfeld have no more committed crimes against humanity than Clinton did in Bosnia. Or did you oppose Serbian rape of Bosnian Muslims while you do support Saddam's rape rooms? I know some would be dictator types are into that kind of thing. Thank God our country isn't.

Damon, Greenwood, IN

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1. It amazes me that these people are so utterly confused. Maliki represents a 'party' and the Badr

Corps. which came directly from Iran. And exactly where, in America, are the oil reserves that would provide over 22 million gallons of gasoline a day?

http://www.gravmag.com/oil.html

Edited to include source

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2. Self-delusion is endemic within the Repub party

They reject any fact that threatens their comfortable belief. And of course the GOP leadership is very good at using this weakness to manipulate opinion in their favor.

Don't look at the discrepancies, don't listen to the nay-sayers, just believe our message and all will be well.

And their message is as simple and deadly as it's been since time immemorial: we don't have to prove we're right, you just know we are. (Because we're telling you what you want to believe.)

The GOP faith-based party, pandering to the weakest links among us every day.