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To: stockman_scott who wrote (215599)1/30/2007 3:23:21 PM
From: geode00  Respond to of 281500
 
On the Newshour, the correspondent talking about the battle around Najaf said that the entire fabric of Iraqi society is fraying...all of it. Beyond just the weakness of the government, it's the weakening of the hold of religious and tribal ties.

He thought that such cults could rise up because people were becoming untethered from everything else and needed something to hang on to.

Incredible.

This is the hell-on-earth that evil people have made out of whole cloth.