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Originally posted by Airborneinfantry:

This is why we can't have Hitlery or Obama as POTUS!

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Originally posted by outlaws93:
now now there are some that dont believe iran is a threat.... they refuse to accept that they are even in iraq....

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Originally posted by outlaws93:
Al Qaeda's new enemy -- Iraqis

Al-Maliki asks Sunnis to help fight al-Qaeda

Sunni Insurgents Battle in Baghdad

U.S. troops battled al-Qaeda in west Baghdad on Thursday after Sunni residents challenged the militants and called for American help to end furious gunfire that kept students from final exams and forced people in the neighborhood to huddle indoors.

Major attacks decline in Iraq

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Gen. Lynch — whose division has seen heavy fighting in the south of Baghdad — said former civilian sympathizers of al Qaeda in Iraq are no longer supporting the radical regime.

Heavy U.S. security in the region has led to a 26 percent decline in attacks in the Multinational Division Center, and civilian casualties have decreased by 36 percent, Gen. Lynch said in a teleconference with reporters at the Pentagon.

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Originally posted by leekujawa:

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Originally posted by outlaws93:
Al Qaeda's new enemy -- Iraqis

Al-Maliki asks Sunnis to help fight al-Qaeda

Sunni Insurgents Battle in Baghdad

U.S. troops battled al-Qaeda in west Baghdad on Thursday after Sunni residents challenged the militants and called for American help to end furious gunfire that kept students from final exams and forced people in the neighborhood to huddle indoors.

Major attacks decline in Iraq

Do you prefer strawberry or cherry Kool-Aid?

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Originally posted by leekujawa:

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Originally posted by Airborneinfantry:

This is why we can't have Hitlery or Obama as POTUS!

and what do you plan to do to make sure neither gets to be POTUS? You're kind of bordering on a threat here.

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Originally posted by leekujawa:
[QUOTE]Originally posted by outlaws93:
now now there are some that dont believe iran is a threat.... they refuse to accept that they are even in iraq....

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Originally posted by 82ndbrat:
We only need to take a look at the neighborhood and see what the motivations are:

Saudi Arabia: No interest in democracy in Iraq. It puts pressure on their phony government and by definition, democracy means Shiia control, which is another no-no for them.

Syria: Most Saudi (50% + of captured insurgent) are coming from there. Syria is playing hardball with us. They want us to backout on the investigation in the PM assassination in Lebanon and bring us back to talking about getting the Golan heights back.

Iran: Iran played ball in Afghanistan with us, and was instrumental initially in helping stabilize Karzai government. However, they are becoming stupid now and are playing with fire. They must believe the more involved we are in Iraq there is less chance of an attach on them.

Turkey: Turkey does not want an independent Kurdistan. They are probably the only major neighbor who wants a democratic unified Iraq. However, they would never go with a federalized system of government.

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Originally posted by rayevinsonsr:
Saudi Arabia:Has nothing to do with democracy and everything to do with Sunni buffer zone between them and Iran.

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Originally posted by rayevinsonsr:
Iran: Has never played ball with the US. They agreed to look after any down planes and pilots in Iran if it should arise. Since the fighting took place in east Afghanistan the event never took place. The overtures Iran is making is reminiscient Saddam describing the "mother of all battles". Never ever underestimate the enemy, But I have faith in the US Armed Forces. BTW, how does one fight a battle without petrol, a product Iran seems to have a lack of.

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2001: Post-9/11 Cooperation on Afghanistan

Like nearly all world leaders, Ayatollah Khamenei condemned the attacks of 9/11. After the U.S.-led war in Afghanistan toppled the Taliban government, American and Iranian diplomats met together in Bonn, with a handful of representatives from other UN members, to form a new government and constitution for Kabul. “None was more [helpful] than the Iranians,” said James Dobbins, the U.S. special envoy to Afghanistan at the time, writing in the Washington Post. “The original version of the Bonn agreement ... neglected to mention either democracy or the war on terrorism. It was the Iranian representative who spotted these omissions and successfully urged that the newly emerging Afghan government be required to commit to both.”

Iran also cooperated with the United Nations to repatriate nearly one million Afghan refugees residing on its soil and—working with United States, Russia, and India—provided support to the Northern Alliance. Flynt Leverett of the Brookings Institution tells CFR.org's Bernard Gwertzman, “I think at least some Iranian officials were hoping could get leveraged into a broader strategic dialogue, but that channel was effectively foreclosed when President Bush in his 2002 State of the Union address labeled Iran as part of the ‘Axis of Evil.’”

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Originally posted by oldmole:

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Originally posted by rayevinsonsr:
Iran: Has never played ball with the US. They agreed to look after any down planes and pilots in Iran if it should arise. Since the fighting took place in east Afghanistan the event never took place. The overtures Iran is making is reminiscient Saddam describing the "mother of all battles". Never ever underestimate the enemy, But I have faith in the US Armed Forces. BTW, how does one fight a battle without petrol, a product Iran seems to have a lack of.

I guess they sure fooled the Council on Foreign Relations, then.

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2001: Post-9/11 Cooperation on Afghanistan

Like nearly all world leaders, Ayatollah Khamenei condemned the attacks of 9/11. After the U.S.-led war in Afghanistan toppled the Taliban government, American and Iranian diplomats met together in Bonn, with a handful of representatives from other UN members, to form a new government and constitution for Kabul. “None was more [helpful] than the Iranians,” said James Dobbins, the U.S. special envoy to Afghanistan at the time, writing in the Washington Post. “The original version of the Bonn agreement ... neglected to mention either democracy or the war on terrorism. It was the Iranian representative who spotted these omissions and successfully urged that the newly emerging Afghan government be required to commit to both.”

Iran also cooperated with the United Nations to repatriate nearly one million Afghan refugees residing on its soil and—working with United States, Russia, and India—provided support to the Northern Alliance. Flynt Leverett of the Brookings Institution tells CFR.org's Bernard Gwertzman, “I think at least some Iranian officials were hoping could get leveraged into a broader strategic dialogue, but that channel was effectively foreclosed when President Bush in his 2002 State of the Union address labeled Iran as part of the ‘Axis of Evil.’”

http://www.cfr.org/publication/12806/timeline.html#8

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Originally posted by rayevinsonsr:
The second paragraph explains the first. Getting shed of one million refugees is no small matter. Would never have happened without the invasion. The foremost reason was the water supply and damming by the Taliban, one of the first issues the Theocracy took up with the Kabul government.

How many direct attacks on Americans can be traced to Tehran including the Embassy in Beirut, the Marine Barracks, Seaman Stetham, Col. Higgins, the many hostages. If you don't believe that the rocket attacks against Israel doesn't influence the way the radical Muslims think of the Jews chief ally you're sadly mistaken. Each and every action taken by them is for themselves, so your going have to help me with an explanation on the ongoing training in Iran, supplying arms to the idiot Al Sadr and the Taliban. How exactly is that cooperation the US?