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Originally Posted by pgrmdave
Did anybody else notice Palin mentioned "Shia extremists" instead of Sunni?
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That struck me too; but it was part of a phrase, "...Al Queda and Shia extremists...." I remember thinking that, well, that's everyone in Iraq, pretty much (that she pointed out we still need to protect ourselves from,
I think it was).
Y'know, not all at once, ...now; but eventually those two pools are fed by the general population of Sunni & Shia.
We're currently paying $300/month to a million Sunni each (see the Sunni Awakening).
...so they can protect themselves (and so they will stop blowing us up too).
When Sarah says that those citable sources (I forget which General and AQ leader) say that the "central front in the war on terror is in Iraq," she doesn't mention that those quotes are from after we started the war. ...yknow, it wasn't the "central front" until we went in. Now maybe that's a good thing, that's debatable; but it shouldn't be a credible response to "our focus should have been on Afganistan...."
...sorry, I just had to rant a little....
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