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Monday, June 29, 2009

The War Nearing the End

Posted by Charles Mudede on Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 4:46 PM

From the BBC:

Iraqis have held a giant party in a Baghdad park as US troops approach their deadline for withdrawing from cities and towns to their bases.

Thousands flocked to the capital's Zawra Park to be entertained by musicians and poets, as police patrol cars were festooned with flowers.

"Since 2003 [the year of the US-led invasion], I have never been to a party."

Ahmed Ali, Baghdad reveller, 20

Look! Is this not the very party that Bush was expecting to see when he liberated Iraq? The party was supposed to happen right here...
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But no one came. Only now are people showing up.

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will they make it through the weekend before they turn on each other?

Posted by Max Solomon on June 29, 2009 at 4:48 PM

Um, no . . . because it's already starting.

Posted by Fifty-Two-Eighty

on June 29, 2009 at 5:09 PM

Hopefully we will have strengthened Iraq enough so that it complete its primary assignment -- going back to war with Iran.

Then gas will be 25 cents again.

Thanks to Democracy.

Posted by Chu-Chi Face on June 29, 2009 at 8:25 PM