According to the Washington Post , McMasters has a PhD in history and told Sunnis that "we understand why you fight", and he developed unique and friendly relations with the people of Tal Afar by treating them like human beings rather than objects of ...

Most notably, firebrand Shiite Muslim cleric Muqtada al-Sadr announced a six-month cease-fire, telling his followers to stop attacking Sunnis and end their battle for control of the capital ... In August, 206 Baghdadis died in bombings and ...

Concur, adam, but if BAA can show us how to identify the enemy, we can round'em up or bump'em off militarily, then resolve 1300 years of animosity between the Sunnis and the Shi'ites, integrate the Kurds, establish a stable quasi ...

  When we leave Iraq they will dissolve and the foreign fighters will quickly be driven out by Sunnis and Shiites alike ...   We will need to hear what the General's report this week since they know whats really going on over there, we ...

Well, as is being discussed this very moment on the Randi Rhodes Show, there is the possible scenario of all out regional war after we leave, with Iran backing Iraqi Shi'ites and Saudi Arabia backing Iraqi Sunnis ...   And if we are smart and ...

Just as those of us were in Vietnam knew that the North would successfully invade the South within a year after we left, the Iraq vets I have talked to agree that weather we leave five minutes from now, or five years from now, the result will be a ...

  The Iraqis, and I mean the vast majority of Shi'ites and Sunnis (see numbers that Indie has already provided) don't want our soldiers in their country ...   Our presense does not bring security, and in fact makes any Iraqi in close ...

Then there's Sam Brownback, who came away from recent meetings with al-Maliki "convinced that the United States should not increase its involvement until Sunnis and Shi'a are more willing to cooperate with each other instead of shooting ...

What if they caught the FUCK who told the NY Times what was going on and they strung that traitorous bastard up? What if, instead of wasting time and money bitching and interrogating American Service Men and Women about Abu Graib those so called ...

There goes any autonomy that may have been on the upswing with the Kurds, Shites, and Sunnis ... Following heroic sendoffs, a great many of these idealistic and enthusiastic young men found themselves reviewing how their youthful inexperience had ...

Now to Junes more vaporous question, "if BAA can show us how to identify the enemy, we can round'em up or bump'em off militarily, then resolve 1300 years of animosity between the Sunnis and the Shi'ites, integrate the Kurds, ...

” Once again, these are issues you’ve introduced and I doubt that the Sunnis are trying to convert the Shiites and vice versa; the Sunnis and Shiites trying to convert American GIs; or that it evangelistic proselytizing ...

3, 2008 In an attempt to quell bad feelings between Sunnis and Shi’ites, the Iraq parliament passed a law allowing former Ba’ath Party members to return to the posts they held during the Saddam regime; however, there is a possibility ...

The Hormuz Incident The Hormuz Incident The Hormuz Incident The Hormuz Incident February 2007:   The Bush administration, led by the President, makes charges that Iran is supplying explosive devices to Iraqi terrorists that are... ...

   Secondly, there are no Shi'a there in great numbers, and on top of that, most of the Sunnis are of the same "tribal affilation", so, it is something like controlling the sectarian violence in ... (there are actually only 2 ...