<<I bet the terrorists are starting to regain their mojo in Iraq now that Obama doesn't care about what's happening there. When Bush left office Iraq was in thew win column. Now is a another story.>>
"In their win column" my ass. The Shi'ites just completed the ethnic cleansing of Baghdad so the killing stopped. The Americans forgot, or pretended ignorance of, the primary rule of Middle East politics, which is that you can't buy an Arab, you can only rent him. They told the world that they had bought off key elements of the Sunni Resistance, when in fact all they had was a short-term lease. Now the lease has run out, the US is broke and the Sunni want back what's theirs. Their Sunni neighbours all want to help them out, too. So the temporary halt in the civil war, which it pleased the Bush administration and their moronic military to label as a "victory," or as Kramer likes to say, "put in their win column," is now coming to an end and the war will go on. My money's on the secular Sunni, but I could be wrong and the Shi'ites who manage to win Iranian backing could hold on to their current top dog position. Either way, the Zio-Nazis win for a time until some Saddam-like leader emerges who will hold the country together the way Saddam did - - with a relentlessly secular approach and an iron fist. If the New Guy has any sense of history, as all Iraqis do, he will continue the track that Saddam had sent the country on: Arab Socialism, anti-all-religions and aim for regional leadership by taking on regional enemies, not one another. If he's really smart, he'll learn from Saddam's mistakes, primarily, allowing the U.S.A. to sucker and bribe him into attacking Iran. It's even possible, if the religious nut-cases in the Iranian Council of Guardians smarten up, that a strong secular Iraq and a less fanatical Iran can work in tandem to free all the Arabs in the region from foreign and Zio-Nazi influences.
But the "win" in the "Win Column" was never more than a sham and a delusion. You believed it because you wanted to believe it.
