Comments on: Migration reshaping ‘Iraq’s sectarian landscape.’ http://thinkprogress.org/2007/09/19/migration-reshaping-iraqs-sectarian-landscape/ Fri, 27 Nov 2009 04:50:46 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: Alejandro http://thinkprogress.org/2007/09/19/migration-reshaping-iraqs-sectarian-landscape/comment-page-1/#comment-4084025 Alejandro Wed, 19 Sep 2007 19:14:01 +0000 http://edit.thinkprogress.org/2007/09/19/migration-reshaping-iraqs-sectarian-landscape/#comment-4084025 But wasn't that the plan all along? Split up Iraq into three separate regions based on ethnicity/religion? That way it could never be the regional power it could be based on its wealth. This is no surprise. But wasn’t that the plan all along? Split up Iraq into three separate regions based on ethnicity/religion? That way it could never be the regional power it could be based on its wealth. This is no surprise.

]]> By: Bush is a four letter word http://thinkprogress.org/2007/09/19/migration-reshaping-iraqs-sectarian-landscape/comment-page-1/#comment-4083777 Bush is a four letter word Wed, 19 Sep 2007 16:47:41 +0000 http://edit.thinkprogress.org/2007/09/19/migration-reshaping-iraqs-sectarian-landscape/#comment-4083777 <em>They're 5 miles high as the crow flies Leavin' vapour trails against a blood red sky Movin' in from the east toward the west With balaclava helmets over their heads, yes! But if you think that jesus christ is coming Honey you've got another thing coming If he ever finds out who's hi-jacked his name He'll cut out his heart and turn in his grave Islam is rising The christians mobilising The world is on it's elbows and knees It's forgotten the message and worships the creeds It's war, she cried, it's war, she cried, this is war Drop your possessions, all you simple folk You will fight them on the beaches in your underclothes You will thank the good lord for raising the union jack You'll watch the ships out of harbour And the bodies come floating back If the real jesus christ were to stand up today He'd be gunned down by the c.i.a. Oh, the lights that now burn brightest behind stained glass Will cast the darkest shadows upon the human heart But God didn't build himself that throne God doesn't live in israel or rome God belong to the yankee dollar God doesn't plant the bombs for hezbollah God doesn't even go to church And God won't send us down to allah to burn No, God will remind us what we already know That the human race is about to reap what it's sown The world is on it's elbows and knees It's forgotten the message and worships the creeds Armageddon days are here again</em> They’re 5 miles high as the crow flies
Leavin’ vapour trails against a blood red sky
Movin’ in from the east toward the west
With balaclava helmets over their heads, yes!

But if you think that jesus christ is coming
Honey you’ve got another thing coming
If he ever finds out who’s hi-jacked his name
He’ll cut out his heart and turn in his grave

Islam is rising
The christians mobilising
The world is on it’s elbows and knees
It’s forgotten the message and worships the creeds

It’s war, she cried, it’s war, she cried, this is war
Drop your possessions, all you simple folk
You will fight them on the beaches in your underclothes
You will thank the good lord for raising the union jack
You’ll watch the ships out of harbour
And the bodies come floating back

If the real jesus christ were to stand up today
He’d be gunned down by the c.i.a.
Oh, the lights that now burn brightest behind stained glass
Will cast the darkest shadows upon the human heart
But God didn’t build himself that throne
God doesn’t live in israel or rome
God belong to the yankee dollar
God doesn’t plant the bombs for hezbollah
God doesn’t even go to church
And God won’t send us down to allah to burn
No, God will remind us what we already know
That the human race is about to reap what it’s sown

The world is on it’s elbows and knees
It’s forgotten the message and worships the creeds
Armageddon days are here again

]]> By: The Republic of Stupidity http://thinkprogress.org/2007/09/19/migration-reshaping-iraqs-sectarian-landscape/comment-page-1/#comment-4083616 The Republic of Stupidity Wed, 19 Sep 2007 15:37:40 +0000 http://edit.thinkprogress.org/2007/09/19/migration-reshaping-iraqs-sectarian-landscape/#comment-4083616 I believe as bad as many paint our current circumstances, it could always be worse. Comment by CaptainMantastic — September 19, 2007 @ 10:51 am And w/ a GOOPer in the WH, it undoubtedly will. I believe as bad as many paint our current circumstances, it could always be worse.

Comment by CaptainMantastic — September 19, 2007 @ 10:51 am

And w/ a GOOPer in the WH, it undoubtedly will.

]]> By: hellinabucket http://thinkprogress.org/2007/09/19/migration-reshaping-iraqs-sectarian-landscape/comment-page-1/#comment-4083591 hellinabucket Wed, 19 Sep 2007 15:29:18 +0000 http://edit.thinkprogress.org/2007/09/19/migration-reshaping-iraqs-sectarian-landscape/#comment-4083591 Is this what Bush had in mind? Is this what Bush had in mind?

]]> By: bob h http://thinkprogress.org/2007/09/19/migration-reshaping-iraqs-sectarian-landscape/comment-page-1/#comment-4083539 bob h Wed, 19 Sep 2007 15:15:22 +0000 http://edit.thinkprogress.org/2007/09/19/migration-reshaping-iraqs-sectarian-landscape/#comment-4083539 # Is this not a form of ethnic cleansing? People feeling so threatened that they leave their homes? ***yes. Certain neighborhoods in Iraq are touted as having lower violence statistics — well if the targeted people are leaving in droves wouldn’t that account for a drop in killings? *** yes We have fought the sunnis, then armed them as they purge the shiites. ***idiotic of us. Meanwhile tens of thousands of Iraqi citizens who are true victims of our “liberation” (or whatever is the current slogan for our illegal invasion) are left homeless, without basic human necessities. I am ashamed of my country. ***more and more you are not alone. i am ashamed of my countrymen, not the nation. I acknowledge that things may get even worse, and that the warmongers will blame the anti-war people, but if the general public has any intelligence at all they will recognize that the real guilty parties are Bush&Co. ***70%of us ar already there. I hope I live long enough to see a reversal of the enormous harm done by Bush&Co — I am not sure that I will. ***when yet another generation of muslim kids kills our kids we will remember bush and his lack of proper action. #

Is this not a form of ethnic cleansing? People feeling so threatened that they leave their homes?

***yes.

Certain neighborhoods in Iraq are touted as having lower violence statistics — well if the targeted people are leaving in droves wouldn’t that account for a drop in killings?

*** yes

We have fought the sunnis, then armed them as they purge the shiites.

***idiotic of us.

Meanwhile tens of thousands of Iraqi citizens who are true victims of our “liberation” (or whatever is the current slogan for our illegal invasion) are left homeless, without basic human necessities.
I am ashamed of my country.

***more and more you are not alone. i am ashamed of my countrymen, not the nation.

I acknowledge that things may get even worse, and that the warmongers will blame the anti-war people, but if the general public has any intelligence at all they will recognize that the real guilty parties are Bush&Co.

***70%of us ar already there.

I hope I live long enough to see a reversal of the enormous harm done by Bush&Co — I am not sure that I will.

***when yet another generation of muslim kids kills our kids we will remember bush and his lack of proper action.

]]> By: bob h http://thinkprogress.org/2007/09/19/migration-reshaping-iraqs-sectarian-landscape/comment-page-1/#comment-4083530 bob h Wed, 19 Sep 2007 15:12:54 +0000 http://edit.thinkprogress.org/2007/09/19/migration-reshaping-iraqs-sectarian-landscape/#comment-4083530 Is this not a form of ethnic cleansing? People feeling so threatened that they leave their homes? yeah. itis 'part' of ethnic cleansing. Is this not a form of ethnic cleansing? People feeling so threatened that they leave their homes?

yeah. itis ‘part’ of ethnic cleansing.

]]> By: Marie http://thinkprogress.org/2007/09/19/migration-reshaping-iraqs-sectarian-landscape/comment-page-1/#comment-4083520 Marie Wed, 19 Sep 2007 15:10:33 +0000 http://edit.thinkprogress.org/2007/09/19/migration-reshaping-iraqs-sectarian-landscape/#comment-4083520 Is this not a form of ethnic cleansing? People feeling so threatened that they leave their homes? Certain neighborhoods in Iraq are touted as having lower violence statistics -- well if the targeted people are leaving in droves wouldn't that account for a drop in killings? We have fought the sunnis, then armed them as they purge the shiites. Meanwhile tens of thousands of Iraqi citizens who are true victims of our "liberation" (or whatever is the current slogan for our illegal invasion) are left homeless, without basic human necessities. I am ashamed of my country. I acknowledge that things may get even worse, and that the warmongers will blame the anti-war people, but if the general public has any intelligence at all they will recognize that the real guilty parties are Bush&Co. I hope I live long enough to see a reversal of the enormous harm done by Bush&Co -- I am not sure that I will. Is this not a form of ethnic cleansing? People feeling so threatened that they leave their homes?
Certain neighborhoods in Iraq are touted as having lower violence statistics — well if the targeted people are leaving in droves wouldn’t that account for a drop in killings?
We have fought the sunnis, then armed them as they purge the shiites.
Meanwhile tens of thousands of Iraqi citizens who are true victims of our “liberation” (or whatever is the current slogan for our illegal invasion) are left homeless, without basic human necessities.
I am ashamed of my country.
I acknowledge that things may get even worse, and that the warmongers will blame the anti-war people, but if the general public has any intelligence at all they will recognize that the real guilty parties are Bush&Co.
I hope I live long enough to see a reversal of the enormous harm done by Bush&Co — I am not sure that I will.

]]> By: Veritas http://thinkprogress.org/2007/09/19/migration-reshaping-iraqs-sectarian-landscape/comment-page-1/#comment-4083507 Veritas Wed, 19 Sep 2007 15:08:21 +0000 http://edit.thinkprogress.org/2007/09/19/migration-reshaping-iraqs-sectarian-landscape/#comment-4083507 I find it utterly amazing how Republicans are so willing to submerge their head in the sand while their party and everything their president touches turns to crap before their very eyes. I believe this is the definition of "delusion". I find it utterly amazing how Republicans are so willing to submerge their head in the sand while their party and everything their president touches turns to crap before their very eyes.

I believe this is the definition of “delusion”.

]]> By: Veritas http://thinkprogress.org/2007/09/19/migration-reshaping-iraqs-sectarian-landscape/comment-page-1/#comment-4083503 Veritas Wed, 19 Sep 2007 15:07:04 +0000 http://edit.thinkprogress.org/2007/09/19/migration-reshaping-iraqs-sectarian-landscape/#comment-4083503 Cap'n: Wrong thread and skewed logic as well. Cap’n: Wrong thread and skewed logic as well.

]]> By: Veritas http://thinkprogress.org/2007/09/19/migration-reshaping-iraqs-sectarian-landscape/comment-page-1/#comment-4083500 Veritas Wed, 19 Sep 2007 15:06:21 +0000 http://edit.thinkprogress.org/2007/09/19/migration-reshaping-iraqs-sectarian-landscape/#comment-4083500 Captain Manastic: Wrong thread and wrong headset. Just because something "didn't occur" certainly doesn't evolve into a sense of safety and security when our borders are horrendously wide open. Does Bush really believe that the only criminals entering illegally are mexicans in search of employment? If so, I've got some prime swampland in Louisians to sell him and you. Your argument holds no logical ground. Sure, no other false flag operations have been permitted to be carried out since the people have become educated to these fascist tactics. This is not to say that we are "safer" by any stretch of the imagination. Captain Manastic: Wrong thread and wrong headset. Just because something “didn’t occur” certainly doesn’t evolve into a sense of safety and security when our borders are horrendously wide open. Does Bush really believe that the only criminals entering illegally are mexicans in search of employment? If so, I’ve got some prime swampland in Louisians to sell him and you. Your argument holds no logical ground.

Sure, no other false flag operations have been permitted to be carried out since the people have become educated to these fascist tactics. This is not to say that we are “safer” by any stretch of the imagination.

]]> By: bob h http://thinkprogress.org/2007/09/19/migration-reshaping-iraqs-sectarian-landscape/comment-page-1/#comment-4083499 bob h Wed, 19 Sep 2007 15:05:41 +0000 http://edit.thinkprogress.org/2007/09/19/migration-reshaping-iraqs-sectarian-landscape/#comment-4083499 also, osama bin ladin was roundly criticized by al qaeda around the world for his attacks in the usa. why? because it led to things like afghanistan getting pounded. so you see the terrists arent stupid....another 9/11 and they KNOW its all over for them. THAT is why big things havent happened here in the usa. also, osama bin ladin was roundly criticized by al qaeda around the world for his attacks in the usa. why? because it led to things like afghanistan getting pounded.

so you see the terrists arent stupid….another 9/11 and they KNOW its all over for them. THAT is why big things havent happened here in the usa.

]]> By: bob h http://thinkprogress.org/2007/09/19/migration-reshaping-iraqs-sectarian-landscape/comment-page-1/#comment-4083494 bob h Wed, 19 Sep 2007 15:04:22 +0000 http://edit.thinkprogress.org/2007/09/19/migration-reshaping-iraqs-sectarian-landscape/#comment-4083494 Here’s why I ask. Regardless whether he deserves any credit, under Bush, we haven’t had a significant domestic terror attack since 9/11 (when most Americans realized that jihadists were at war with the U.S.) And the police are responsible for that, not the military or gwb. try again. Here’s why I ask. Regardless whether he deserves any credit, under Bush, we haven’t had a significant domestic terror attack since 9/11 (when most Americans realized that jihadists were at war with the U.S.)

And the police are responsible for that, not the military or gwb. try again.

]]> By: Nevar http://thinkprogress.org/2007/09/19/migration-reshaping-iraqs-sectarian-landscape/comment-page-1/#comment-4083488 Nevar Wed, 19 Sep 2007 15:01:18 +0000 http://edit.thinkprogress.org/2007/09/19/migration-reshaping-iraqs-sectarian-landscape/#comment-4083488 I believe as bad as many paint our current circumstances, it could always be worse. Recommend | Report Abuse Comment by CaptainMantastic "And, so, carry on, dee dum dee dum dee dee dee dee...." I believe as bad as many paint our current circumstances, it could always be worse.

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“And, so, carry on, dee dum dee dum dee dee dee dee….”

]]> By: DRxJ http://thinkprogress.org/2007/09/19/migration-reshaping-iraqs-sectarian-landscape/comment-page-1/#comment-4083477 DRxJ Wed, 19 Sep 2007 14:54:47 +0000 http://edit.thinkprogress.org/2007/09/19/migration-reshaping-iraqs-sectarian-landscape/#comment-4083477 CaptainMantastic, nice paragraphs (snark), wrong thread. You might have a better chance at receiving an answer to your strawmen if you asked on the open thread below. Now, back on topic, how do you feel about the almost 1 million Iraqi citizens that have had to leave because of no electricity, no food, not water, all brought on by Operation Iraqi Liberation. CaptainMantastic,
nice paragraphs (snark), wrong thread. You might have a better chance at receiving an answer to your strawmen if you asked on the open thread below.

Now, back on topic, how do you feel about the almost 1 million Iraqi citizens that have had to leave because of no electricity, no food, not water, all brought on by Operation Iraqi Liberation.

]]> By: Pete Bogs http://thinkprogress.org/2007/09/19/migration-reshaping-iraqs-sectarian-landscape/comment-page-1/#comment-4083465 Pete Bogs Wed, 19 Sep 2007 14:50:00 +0000 http://edit.thinkprogress.org/2007/09/19/migration-reshaping-iraqs-sectarian-landscape/#comment-4083465 as long as "finding neighbors of (one's) own sect" is important no one will ever be safe... we have to learn to live in peace alongside people who are not like us... the word is "tolerance" as long as “finding neighbors of (one’s) own sect” is important no one will ever be safe… we have to learn to live in peace alongside people who are not like us… the word is “tolerance”

]]> By: Veritas http://thinkprogress.org/2007/09/19/migration-reshaping-iraqs-sectarian-landscape/comment-page-1/#comment-4083464 Veritas Wed, 19 Sep 2007 14:49:47 +0000 http://edit.thinkprogress.org/2007/09/19/migration-reshaping-iraqs-sectarian-landscape/#comment-4083464 ClydeTheRipper: Just insert "New Orleans" in this scenario and the parallels are frightening. This is still a huge black mark on the BushCo. He lied to the citizens of New Orleans, didn't get water to them in 5 days because he was on vacation, and it's time to tell this president to take an "early vacation" of some 500 days right now. IMPEACH BUSH & CHENEY before they can destroy more of this world. ClydeTheRipper: Just insert “New Orleans” in this scenario and the parallels are frightening. This is still a huge black mark on the BushCo. He lied to the citizens of New Orleans, didn’t get water to them in 5 days because he was on vacation, and it’s time to tell this president to take an “early vacation” of some 500 days right now.

IMPEACH BUSH & CHENEY before they can destroy more of this world.

]]> By: Veritas http://thinkprogress.org/2007/09/19/migration-reshaping-iraqs-sectarian-landscape/comment-page-1/#comment-4083460 Veritas Wed, 19 Sep 2007 14:47:40 +0000 http://edit.thinkprogress.org/2007/09/19/migration-reshaping-iraqs-sectarian-landscape/#comment-4083460 Imagine being run out of your own home several times due to our meddling in Iraq?? Wow! Imagine being run out of your own home several times due to our meddling in Iraq?? Wow!

]]> By: Wilco http://thinkprogress.org/2007/09/19/migration-reshaping-iraqs-sectarian-landscape/comment-page-1/#comment-4083455 Wilco Wed, 19 Sep 2007 14:45:10 +0000 http://edit.thinkprogress.org/2007/09/19/migration-reshaping-iraqs-sectarian-landscape/#comment-4083455 Squeege, reading your comments, it's as though this were a day in which one were to speak as would a pirate Yeeaargh! Squeege, reading your comments, it’s as though this were a day in which one were to speak as would a pirate
Yeeaargh!

]]> By: blogenfreude http://thinkprogress.org/2007/09/19/migration-reshaping-iraqs-sectarian-landscape/comment-page-1/#comment-4083451 blogenfreude Wed, 19 Sep 2007 14:44:11 +0000 http://edit.thinkprogress.org/2007/09/19/migration-reshaping-iraqs-sectarian-landscape/#comment-4083451 And we're spending a fortune paying Blackwater to kill innocent civilians. Now THAT's winning hearts and minds! And we’re spending a fortune paying Blackwater to kill innocent civilians. Now THAT’s winning hearts and minds!

]]> By: Angry McAngus http://thinkprogress.org/2007/09/19/migration-reshaping-iraqs-sectarian-landscape/comment-page-1/#comment-4083449 Angry McAngus Wed, 19 Sep 2007 14:42:18 +0000 http://edit.thinkprogress.org/2007/09/19/migration-reshaping-iraqs-sectarian-landscape/#comment-4083449 Soonds like a coonty fair in fookkin Iowa to me. Soonds like a coonty fair in fookkin Iowa to me.

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