Originally Posted By jonvn Not many people have a lot of good to say about what's happening in Iraq. Full scale all out civil war is now only a few weeks, not months, away. <a href="http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2006/10/18/MNGTTLRELS1.DTL" target="_blank">http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/arti cle.cgi?file=/c/a/2006/10/18/MNGTTLRELS1.DTL</a> Now we're going to have to go groveling to Iran and Syria for help. Way to go. <a href="http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2006/10/18/MNGTTLRELS1.DTL" target="_blank">http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/arti cle.cgi?file=/c/a/2006/10/18/MNGTTLRELS1.DTL</a>
Originally Posted By JohnS1 I'm sure that Iraq civil war is timed to coincide with American elections. Just like the 12,000 Dow and the Foley case and the killing of Bin Laden and the North Korean nuclear test and the Chicago Bears comeback the other night. Nothing that happens anywhere in the world over the next three weeks will be coincidental - just remember that! Me cynical? Nah.
Originally Posted By DouglasDubh <Bin Laden is dead?> The rumor is he died of a "water-born illness".
Originally Posted By DlandDug >>Diamond said in an interview that he was expressing strictly his personal opinions, not necessarily those of the study group.<< Uh huh. He just happened to express strictly his personal opinions to a reporter from San Francisco. Forgive me for taking all this with a very big grain of salt. It's Jim Baker talking, folks. He's been out on TV and talking to reporters through surrogates. I fully expect the actual MSM to all "spontaneously" start quoting him any day now.
Originally Posted By gadzuux >> The rumor is he died of a "water-born illness". << In the desert. Got it.
Originally Posted By DouglasDubh <In the desert. Got it.> The rumour has been that's he was hiding in the mountains between Pakistan and Afghanistan. You know, the ones covered in snow year around. Another rumour was more specific, and said he had died of typhoid fever. Considering he hasn't issued a video tape in years, I think it's quite possible he's been dead for awhile, and quite sick before that.
Originally Posted By DouglasDubh <Full scale all out civil war is now only a few weeks, not months, away.> I wonder how long Iraq can be "on the verge" of a civil war? What will critics say if, in a few weeks, "full scale all out civil war" doesn't happen?
Originally Posted By RoadTrip <<What will critics say if, in a few weeks, "full scale all out civil war" doesn't happen?>> That's a silly question. They will say "Full scale all out civil war is now only a few weeks, not months, away." I guess you just don't know how the game is played. ;-)
Originally Posted By jonvn They already are pretty much in a civil war. I am not even sure what the difference between what is going on now and a civil war would be.
Originally Posted By JohnS1 "I am not even sure what the difference between what is going on now and a civil war would be." Someone is a stove-pipe hat will make a speech about freeing the slaves. Then you'll know.
Originally Posted By SingleParkPassholder We're sending Fred Thompson to Iraq? I'd actually be for that.
Originally Posted By RoadTrip The time is now. It has started. <a href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15343811/" target="_blank">http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15 343811/</a>
