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To: Road Walker who wrote (374893)3/24/2008 2:29:41 PM
From: jlallen  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 1587089
 
I don't recall what Cheney said...I am posting my own opinion based upon what I hear from folks who are actually in Iraq....There is no doubt that Al Q. has been fomenting trouble between Sunni and Shia and that removing them as an effective force from the equation will improve the situation...

There is no way to promise that every homicide bomber or roadisde bomb will be caught. Those willing to trade their own lives for the lives of others are nearly impossible to defend against.

J.



To: Road Walker who wrote (374893)3/24/2008 3:00:37 PM
From: Alighieri  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 1587089
 
Didn't Cheney say they were making their "last stand" a year or two ago? Are the Sunnis making their last stand as well? How 'bout the Shia?

cnn.com

Yes...the famous "last throes", which came before these throes, which will likely be followed by the next one hundred years of throes and which were surely preceded by the first 1400 years of throes.

Al