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To: JDN who wrote (757571)	1/19/2007 6:47:14 AM
From: PROLIFE	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

I am not convinced this is just a secterian civil war...as an example, the bombings are not selecting one or the other necessarily, such as the bombings at the University, it is not all one or the other is it? and the Iraqii recruiting stations, both sunni and shia show up to enlist, right? your idea about Mercs might be a good one. and the first thing they do is go find that nut al sadr and wrap him up.

To: JDN who wrote (757571)	1/19/2007 6:57:15 AM
From: PROLIFE	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Key aide to radical Shiite cleric arrested: U.S., Iraqi forces seize al-Sadr’s media director AP ^ \| January 19 2007 U.S. and Iraqi forces arrested a top aide to radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr on Friday in Baghdad, an official in his office said. Sheik Abdul-Hadi al-Darraji, al-Sadr’s media director in Baghdad, was captured in the eastern neighborhood of Baladiyat, the official said, speaking on condition of anonymity because of security concerns. The U.S. military said special Iraqi army forces captured a high-level, illegal armed group leader during a raid in eastern Baghdad, but it did not identify the detainee. Read more at msnbc.msn.com ...

To: JDN who wrote (757571)	1/19/2007 2:22:00 PM
From: pompsander	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

I am leaning more and more toward moving our troops to secure Iraq's borders and I mean AIR TIGHT and the Kurdish area (which is probably the calmest, most successful portion of Iraq, and then let the Iraqi's settle their mess themselves. As an American, frankly if the Iraqi's cant agree on a coalition type goverment with all parties represented I dont give a tinkers damn whether its SUNNI or SHIA or even KURD led, so long as it NOT influenced by Iran, Syria or any other enemy of the USA. If 160,000 AMERICAN troops are insufficient to TOTALLY SECURE Iraq's borders then I would suggest we HIRE AS MERCENARIES, Kurds (whose army is supposedly far better then anything the other Iraqis can muster) to join our ranks. jdn JDN...I am right with you on this. If we secure the borders to limit outside DIRECT influence (men and weapons), once our troops are not ping pong balls in the internal sectarian struggles (and doing that idiot Maliki's bidding), the decision to fight and possiblly lose (instead of having the U.S. always there to clean up) could finally bring some sense into the matter. I'm not optimistic....too much internal hatred, too many scores to be settled. But why should our troops be in the middle of it when they could be on the edge?