What? You mean there is someone in the Democratically Elected Iraqi Parliament who is not a peaceful Iraqi dad who loves freedom? A non-moderate Muslim?
Of course, there is no firewall between peaceful Muslims and Islamic supremacists. There is no Muslim group that has pronounced takfir on Osama bin Laden or Al-Qaeda or any jihadist group. (Takfir is the declaration that a professed Muslim individual or group is actually an unbeliever.) Thus these stories should not surprise any American officials. But I'll wager that many are surprised, because they have accepted politically correct fictions about Islam being a religion of peace instead of looking at the hard truth.
From CNN, with thanks to Kemaste:
BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- A man sentenced to death in Kuwait for the 1983 bombings of the U.S. and French embassies now sits in Iraq's parliament as a member of Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki's ruling coalition, according to U.S. military intelligence.Jamal Jafaar Mohammed's seat in parliament gives him immunity from prosecution. Washington says he supports Shiite insurgents and acts as an Iranian agent in Iraq.
U.S. military intelligence in Iraq has approached al-Maliki's government with the allegations against Jamal Jafaar Mohammed, whom it says assists Iranian special forces in Iraq as "a conduit for weapons and political influence."...
A Kuwaiti court sentenced Jamal Jafaar Mohammed to death in 1984 in the car bombings of the U.S. and French embassies the previous December. Five people died in the attacks and 86 were wounded.
He had fled the country before the trial.
Western intelligence agencies also accuse Jamal Jafaar Mohammed of involvement in the hijacking of a Kuwaiti airliner in 1984 and the attempted assassination of a Kuwaiti prince.
Jamal Jafaar Mohammed won a seat in Iraq's Council of Representatives in the U.S.-backed elections of December 2005. He represents Babil province, south of Baghdad, in parliament....
Al-Maliki's political party, Dawa, claimed responsibility for the Kuwait bombings at the time but now disavows them. The Iranian-backed Shiite Muslim party was forced into exile under former dictator Saddam Hussein, who was executed in December.
The prime minister says the situation is embarrassing -- not only to his government but to a U.S. administration that holds up Iraq's government as a democratic model for the region.
Yep.
DUH?
I'm glad the Sec. Rice isn't running for pres.
I would be laughing at this article but it's too pathetic to contemplate.
I know somewhere there is a right-wing junta forming up to take over in Washington.
I guess Cal Thomas is right in the fact that both of our political parties are in a race to the bottom. Recently a friend pointed out that we drop the first name of Democrats. In the rest of the world thay are referred to as Social Democrats.
This should be read out in Congress.
Who wants to read it out? Who wants to attack, full-bore, the farce in Iraq, the squandering in Iraq, not from the left, but from the right, not because Islam must be appeased but because it must not, not because we want "peace" and "prosperity" for Muslims in Iraq or outside Iraq but because we, the Infidels, want to keep ourselves safe, and the forces of Jihad divided and demoralized, so that even those who think they can count on our protection (Saudi Arabia, for example) will have to come running, and then begging, and they paying, really paying, for the great and undeserved privilege, just possibly, of having their monstrous regimes protected by American forces, but can't count any longer on being seen as "staunch allies" or as "allies" at all, but will be seen, at long last, as what they always were -- mortal enemies of Infidels, and hence, of us.
Tancredo?
Webb?
Attack the Iraq nonsense, but from the right angle.
Everyone is waiting. You have nothing to lose.
Just an ordinary dad, with an ordinary mom or moms waiting at home, and possibly a dozen ordinary kids, all of them longing for "freedom."
If this muslim murderer being elected makes you angry, I know something that will make you even angrier - the knowledge that millions of other muslim Iraqis voted himinto office knowing exactly what he was - and agreeing with him!. These are the creatures whose worthless lives we rescued from Saddam at the cost of much American blood and treasure. They weren't worth one drop of American blood.
Very sad, US in Iraq isn´t the best campaign in its story.
"Who wants to read it out? Who wants to attack, full-bore, the farce in Iraq, the squandering in Iraq, not from the left, but from the right, not because Islam must be appeased but because it must not, not because we want "peace" and "prosperity" for Muslims in Iraq or outside Iraq but because we, the Infidels, want to keep ourselves safe, and the forces of Jihad divided and demoralized, so that even those who think they can count on our protection (Saudi Arabia, for example) will have to come running, and then begging, and they paying, really paying, for the great and undeserved privilege, just possibly, of having their monstrous regimes protected by American forces, but can't count any longer on being seen as "staunch allies" or as "allies" but will be seen, as what they always were -- mortal enemies of Infidels, and hence, of us."
Invest in punctuation.
Yeah Hugh. Some of these sentences can be split up into separate sentences.
You write like an M16 on automatic. Switch to semi-automatic.
thestudent10048,
It would be wiser to quote an entire post by Hugh and comment on the content of his words and not his grammatical presentation of them. That is just being petty.
Regards,
extraordinary rendition?
With extreme prejudice.
"Invest in punctuation..."
-- from a posting above
Primo: My method of composition (say, didn't Poe already do this?) for these postings consists of sitting down and then, very quickly setting down, thoughts on first one JW item, then another, then another. If I stop to check anything -- spelling, or punctuation, anything at all --I am likely to have the choo-choo of my thought derailed, and I can't easily get back on track.
Secundo: Punctuation, like spelling and grammar, is next to godliness. But why do you advise me to "invest in punctuation"? I've been an investor for years. I run a hedge fund specializing undervalued punctuation opportunities.
It was one very long sentence. But that sentence is broken up by commas, correctly and thoughtfully placed, offered in a spirit of giving the reader the right kind of pause. Everyone needs a rest.
What I think you meant to say was: ”Please, sir, fewer commas, more periods. We like an occasional short sentence and even though your one long sentence makes sense, we've lost the habit of reading sentences with lots of dependent clauses, and don't find that the deliberate onrush of words, meant to mimic fury or indignation, always pays off, and we do need a bit more of those subject-verb-predicate things, so won't you oblige?”
There is another, more seductive way, of making or tossing the pitch.
Ssomething like this:
"Say, wasn't it Gracie Allen who wrote, apropos death and life and life after death, 'Never put a period where God has put a comma.' Well, for mortals the reverse applies as well. Please don't put commas where the God of Prose would want you to put a period."
And I would then have had to reply:
“You were right to appeal that long sentence. Appeal granted. Case remanded for reconsideration below.”
The wheels of poetic justice grind exceeding slow. But they do grind.
this muslim murderer being elected makes you angry, I know something that will make you even angrier - the knowledge that millions of other muslim Iraqis voted himinto office knowing exactly what he was - and agreeing with him!.
Posted by: A.I. Steamroller
Gee, a murderer elected to a legislature. Strike out "muslim", and I can think of an example or two closer to home.
Depleting our resources to give the "Iraqi people" a stable, "democratically elected" government--albeit an Islamic one--is a sign of placing more worth on the "other" than on oneself.
This sacrificing our of own materiel and personnel for the security and comfort of the adherents of an ideology that wishes for our subjugation and destruction is not a sign of nobility but of idiocy.
Going to war to make the world a better place for Islam is not the way to go.
Only if one were obligated to the Saudis in one way or another would this be the course chosen.
On the other hand, there are those who blame ourselves for the rage of the enemy