This is as bad as it gets for the surrendercrats ...*L*. They may have to send Howard Dean or John Kerry directly to Iraq ......pronto ...to turn the tide.

http://news.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/12/11/uirq.xml

Ba'athist Insurgents To Protect Iraq Elections

Filed: 11/12/2005

Iraqi insurgents have signalled a major shift on January's parliamentary elections, urging Sunni Arabs to vote and warning al-Qa'eda militants not to attack polling stations.

Ba'athist loyalists boycotted Iraq's last set of elections and intimidated would-be voters out of participation.

Now guerrillas in the volatile Anbar province say they are prepared to protect voting stations from al-Qa'eda fighters.

Ali Mahmoud, a former army officer and rocket specialist under Saddam's Ba'ath party, said: "We want to see a nationalist government that will have a balance of interests. So our Sunni brothers will be safe when they vote."

"Sunnis should vote to make political gains. We have sent leaflets telling al-Qa'eda that they will face us if they attack voters."

The warning to al-Qa'eda suggests there may be a wider rift between Saddam loyalists and fundamentalist militants, who have previously co-operated in their efforts to drive out coalition forces.

Musab al-Zarqawi, the Jordanian militant who leads al-Qa'eda in Iraq, has become a particular target of Ba'athist criticism.

"Zarqawi is an American, Israeli and Iranian agent who is trying to keep our country unstable so that the Sunnis will keep facing occupation," said Abu Abdullah, a Ba'athist insurgent leader.

The shift in favour of the elections will be encouraging for Washington, which has long hoped Sunni factions will abandon violence in favour of democratic participation.


Slim

As long as we're sending Kerry out there, why don't we send you with him? I'm sure your fearsome nekkid powers will keep him in line. There's gotta be something I'm not seeing about that pic you posted when you got here. Some kind of latent power ........to.......keep ............the..............terr'sts .............in.......line....and...........woo .......women's.................panties...off!

Oh can't argue with this article can ya ..I guess this article got to you .....*L*.


Slim

Nope, I've lost all hope that you can argue rationally. So all I'm going to do is just sit here and make cheap shots at your expense. That's what happens when you're a dumbass.

Yeah ......I wouldn't know what people like you do.


slim

Now you know!

That story is just another nail in the coffin for the loony left.

History is marching on. There is still a chance to get on the right-side of history.

People say we're losing but its only the loony left/anti-war crowd. The iraqis think otherwise.

From the ABC news poll.
...seven in 10 Iraqis say their own lives are going well, and nearly two-thirds expect things to improve in the year ahead....more than six in 10 Iraqis feel very safe in their own neighborhoods, up sharply from just 40 percent in a poll in June 2004. And 61 percent say local security is good — up from 49 percent in the first ABC News poll in Iraq in February 2004....Average household incomes have soared by 60 percent in the last 20 months (to $263 a month), 70 percent of Iraqis rate their own economic situation positively, and consumer goods are sweeping the country. In early 2004, 6 percent of Iraqi households had cell phones; now it's 62 percent. Ownership of satellite dishes has nearly tripled, and many more families now own air conditioners (58 percent, up from 44 percent), cars, washing machines and kitchen appliances...Three-quarters of Iraqis express confidence in the national elections being held this week, 70 percent approve of the new constitution, and 70 percent — including most people in Sunni and Shiite areas alike — want Iraq to remain a unified country....Whatever the current problems, 69 percent of Iraqis expect things for the country overall to improve in the next year..

Given the iraqis optimism for their future, inspite of all the challenges facing them, one wonders what the basis for the loony lefts pessimism is based on.