No surprise here. From the Washington Times, with thanks to Jeffrey Imm and Ali Dashti:
Iran's Assembly of Experts, the body of powerful Muslim clerics that chooses the country's supreme leader, opened its 12th session Sunday calling for an Islamic republic in Iraq.In his opening speech, the assembly's speaker, Ayatollah Ali Meshkini, urged Iraqi leaders to unite to expel foreign troops in Iraq and establish a government based on the principles of Islam similar to the one in Iran, according to reports in the Tehran Times yesterday.
The Iraqi leadership must "expel the occupiers and establish an Islamic government," the ayatollah said.
He also said that the United States and Britain were responsible for "the ruthless massacre of the Iraqi people and must be punished by a competent court."
MISSION ACCOMPLISHED... for Bin Laden. He hated Saddam and wanted to see a Muslim Theocracy ruling Iraq.
Haven't we always known this would happen? As soon as we "implement democracy" the Shi'ite Majority is going to vote in a series of "reforms" to make Iraq into another Iran, only this Iran will be closer to Israel and have trillions of dollars in oil revenues.
The Shi'ite majority will vote away the womens' right to vote, first and foremost. Then they will vote in to make Iraq a Shi'ite Muslim Republic. Then they will vote to start building nukes to throw at Israel....
We KNEW this would happen. The last thing we want in a Muslim hellhole is democracy. What are "we" going to do if they vote in Bin Laden as President? Or Al-Sadr, the guy with a warrant out for his arrest that sits in his mosque, a free man? Or what if they elect Abu Musad Zarqawi, the terrorist that has been beheading hostages? What if they vote to expell all foreign troops?
Welcome to Iraq Nam, the mother of all quagmires.
Mr. Kj,
All parties have different agendas, surely it is upto the people to choose....isn't that democracy .... for me, the irony is that American and british toops (and behind them the respective administrations) will protect the voters (as best as they can) to vote in Al-Sadr.
He may then implement all your suggestions, but then he will be doing it legally...so don't give me any rot when that happens because your administration worked so hard for exactly that.
The second American kidnap victim has had his head sawed off in the traditional manner, and the Iraqi government has just said it is to release one of the two "high value" women that had been captured and imprisoned by the Coalition.
We are seeing the beginning of the end in Iraq, unless Bush "gets real" very quickly. This means, in short, that he recognize that just because someone claims a belief in a divinity does not make him "good."
Furthermore, it is WAY past the time for all non-Iraqi's to have surgically implanted homing devices. This can be done without scars or other evidence of their placement, and the devices can be turned off and on at will.
Robert for President
Hugh for State
KJ, as if anyone would let Al Sadr take control after it's took so much time and effort to topple Saddam.
Get real, you don't give the iraqi people enough credit.
These fools are showing what I've known all along, muslims are just not ready to join the 21st century, they just want to dwell forever in the dark ages.
How pathetic!!!
If the coalition have any tactical brains whatsoever, they start having these ridiculous religious idiots assassinated, so real democratic parties are up for election, unless of course they're not even willing to try, and just want go back to being oppressed and miserable.
Mind you, thats what islam's all about really isn't it.
cubed,
I cannot make any sense of why Iraqi judges would release this woman AFTER two Americans are beheaded...
http://www.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30000-13227819,00.html
Moose
There appears to be some confusion as to if the women's release is to take place. The Iraqis "don't have the authority to release her," according to Fox News. In would appear to be giving in to the terrorists, a bad, bad move!
Mr epg says "There appears to be some confusion as to if the women's release is to take place. The Iraqis "don't have the authority to release her,"
This is the 1st time to test who actually is in charge, the americans or the Interim Iraqi Government.
It iwll be very interesting to see how it goes, albiet a very sad state of affairs behind it all.
The Jihadists -- Sunni or Shiite -- don't recognize the legal authority of either, because it doesn't suit either of their agendas. Neither do I suspect the Iranians, who fund Al-Sadr, who is probably not the most popular Shiite leader by a long shot.
KJ -- Iraq is a quagmire, but how can anyone deny its "failed state" status if the only thing that stood between the Iraqi people and the Jihadists was Saddam and his Baath party goons?
It's unfair to lay all the blame on the US/UK led coalition. The oil-greedy French and Russians are at least as much to blame for the mess Iraq has become. Both helped Saddam subvert the UN-imposed sanctions and led the opposition to the invasion, which could have been justified on human rights grounds as NATO's intervention in Bosnia. For the French in particular, though -- a nation that purports to celebrate equality, fraternity and liberty -- to conduct themselves in the arena of world affairs as they have in the last 40 years, is shameful.
1. IF they are released - it proves beheading works on the Iraqi Interim Government.
2. IF they are not released - it proves that the infidel invaders and occupiers are in control of a muslim nation.
How far am I off Naseem?
Moose
Bush's masterplan probably calls for trifurcating iraq - into 3 independent entities -Kurdistan, a shia state and a sunni anarchy. The best part is most of the oil will be held by the first 2.
As for Iran, US airpower used sparingly for a week is enough to defang their nukes, reduce their armoured divisions to rubble and trample their airforce. After that the mad-mullah-cracy will face collapse at the hands of excited liberalistic Iranian youth and a hordes of westernised Iranian exiles waiting to return.
by Syria, seeing the error of its ways will permanently vacate lebanon, dismantly the anti-israeli terror infrastructure and camps on its soil and throw open Saddam's hidden nukes.
last but not least Saudi can then be tackled. faced with dismemberment and destruction, they either breakup into a shia-majority east (huge oil reserves there!) and small little mini-kingdoms -m only one of whixch will contain Mecca and Medina.
Now, if this were indeed B Messr. Bush's plan, then alone does the rush into Iraq make sense.
Well, we've already allowed the Afghans to write a constitution establishing Islam as the "official religion."
We'll do the same in Iraq.
Why? Because we're pussies.
It's as if we conquered Germany, only to let Hitler's heirs make "Nazism" the official doctrine of the state.
We'll lose for lack of winning.
Waterdragon~ that's a Very good point: How much of this would never have happened, if the French and other nations hoping to cash in things had not helped work to prevent the sanctions from having their desired effect?
911 would have still happened. OBL was working on it, at least in his mind, for a decade or more. But if there had been no Saddam running Iraq, time and resources could have been kept focused on hunting down OBL and his Taliban allies.
Thank you, France! Another reason we can't vote for Kerry, as he seems to be in their pocket.
nazieem - don't you have to be at a stoning somewhere ?
Hey, Moose,
My guess is that they are talking about it because the poor Brit is still alive.
Hey Naseem, here is a curveball for you...
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/I/IRAQ?SITE=CABAR&SECTION=HOME
"After the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad said there would be no immediate release of either of the two women in U.S. custody, Iraqi Prime Minister Ayad Allawi said there were no immediate plans to free the detainees. Allawi's statement disputed an earlier statement by his Justice Department that a decision was made to release one of them.
Allawi told The Associated Press that his government has begun reviewing the status of its detainees, including the two female scientists known as "Dr. Germ" and "Mrs. Anthrax" for their involvement in Saddam Hussein's biological weapons programs.
But he said the review process had nothing to do with the current hostage situation and had started weeks ago in Iraq.
"We have not been negotiating and we will not negotiate with terrorists on the release of hostages," he said in a telephone interview from New York. "No release takes place unless I authorize it."
Moose
My guess is Iraq will end up Tri-partitioned into
Northern Homeland for Kurds, Sunni Centre and Shia
Rest of Iraq... Otherwise a raging civil war as Followers of Islam illustrate every day - when they run out of Infidels to kill, slaughter each other. These guys have never known democracy [or rationality after being enslaved by Islam] so best we [and they] can hope for is a compromise.
Another regime run by Mullahs is in no one's interest except Mullahs - bet Fatboy Al Sadr is champing at the bit, can't wait for all those pizzas and nubile girls which goes with the Job!
CAIR Canada is trying to push our Government to
allow a Shariah-Law court system,in Shariah Law anyone defaming Muhammed will be murdered.
NO ISLAM - KNOW PEACE
Thhey can't release the two women they're chemical and bio-weapon experts, which is exactly why Zaraqi made the demands. He knew they where impossible to meet, and never had any intention of releasing the hostages, Ken Bigley is a small price to pay for security.