Tuesday October 27, 2009, 8:39 am
Unfortunate, unpalatable, but true. However hard you try you will never stamp out terrorism by military action, however great the "surge". In Iraq, too, a government has been put into place that is widely regarded as comprisinbg U.S. puppets and therefore lacking in credibility. Also the population of Iraq is made up of three incompatible ethnic groups who hate each other's guts and were only held together since the country's inception by strict autocratic rule.
Terrorism will be cured only by addressing its roots causes, the deprivation, exploitation, interference, aggression and corruption foisted upon undeveloped countries by Big Business in "more civilised" lands, particularly the U.S.A. and its lackeys, who are therefore its main targets. Live and let live. Talk, not bullies, bullets and bombs, is the only way to success.

Tuesday October 27, 2009, 9:10 am
I hate this kind of this on video, but thanks for the news.

Tuesday October 27, 2009, 9:33 am
Lionel, I agree with your estimate - but WHY to keep incompatiable groups in one country? Sunnies should get theirs, Shia - theirs and Kurds - theirs. Better divorce once than fighting forever.

Tuesday October 27, 2009, 9:57 am
May God return their own retaliation upon their own heads.. for they shall be held accountable in the great day of the Lord...