oh so the Iraqis are held back by an insurgency? Who (or whom?) makes up this insurgency? Dutch, Chinese, Kiwis, or hermaphrodites? Or is it primarily Iraqis Sunnis allied with Jordan, Kuwait and Syria? And has our glorious leader Dubya allied us ...

The government, which has sought to reconcile Iraq's often warring Shiites and Sunnis, took a tiny step toward national reconciliation by sending a draft amnesty bill to the parliament speaker Tuesday ... Government spokesman Ali al-Dabbagh ...

The US aim was to allow the Sunnis, who boycotted the last polls in January 2005, to win control of their provinces. But elections also threatened the SIIC's grip on councils in southern Iraq because the party has become increasingly unpopular and the ...

 You are so right, this is far better than momentary confusion about Sunnis and Shia, NOT ...   They should get their stories straight before they talk since everything they say will be held against ...

Much of the progress has been due to a move by thousands of Sunnis to abandon the insurgency and join pro-U ... " Another was a cease-fire called last August by firebrand Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, leader of the feared Mahdi Army ...

" Al-Qaida in Iraq has vowed to retaliate against Sunnis who join the American military's campaign to drive militants out of volatile areas ... In the attack in Kurdistan, a bomber rammed an explosives-laden car into the gate of Sulaimaniyah ...

While Iraq has become a 2nd Shiite Islamic stronghold to counter the Sunnis influence in the region, empowering Iran ... The criteria for measuring the success of the surge is as close as we've come to really defining what we're calling ...

The Iraqis do not yet have a law for sharing the nation's oil wealth among the Shiites, Sunnis and Kurds, a law that the Bush administration believes will trigger multinational energy companies to invest in exploration and production in Iraq. Also ...

" Al-Qaida in Iraq has vowed to retaliate against Sunnis who join the American military's campaign to drive militants out of volatile areas. The program has succeeded in reducing the violence in the western Anbar province and Sunni neighborhoods in ...

  Sunnis are killing Shiites; Shiites are killing Sunnis ...   Let's see what the fallout from our "lack of action" really is; and perhaps with air support, diplomatic actions, and generous immigration policies towards the Iraqi ...

It IS the Oil It IS the Oil It IS the Oil It IS the Oil It is difficult for me to realize that there are still people who think the occupation of Iraq does not have anything to do with the oil business, but I know there are such people   ... ...

The Sadrists have complained that the government has released few of their followers under a new amnesty law, which they complain has favored Sunnis who have recently joined with the Americans to fight al-Qaida ... Before al-Sadr's statement, ...

  The reason for the weaker central government is that Shiites, Kurds, and Sunnis---the three main populations of Iraq---lack trust for one another and would rather be governed by their own regional leaders, or tribal leaders ... Persuading ...

We have lost Iraq for the same basic reason, ie, the insurgents (here Islamic nut jobs, Islamofascists, Sunnis, Shiites, Wahabis, and Baathists) are all willing to keep fighting until they can achieve victory by killing off all their opponents and ...

Many Sunnis are mad -- they boycotted the first vote and are looking for a new distribution of power as payback for their efforts against al-Qaida ... Awakening council representatives announced this week that they were giving the party 30 days ...