Interpretion of Events: Bombings in Diyla and Mosul


	Interpretion of Events: Bombings in Diyla and Mosul

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7-18-2008 1:33 AM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/1d6adc73-2cf4-4010-985b-f8c7c48e73f0/E3BE7F97-EAE0-40FB-B3CB-0217F33431DC/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.juancole.com/2008/07/bombs-kill-40-wound-dozens-al-duri.html" href="http://www.juancole.com/2008/07/bombs-kill-40-wound-dozens-al-duri.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www.juancole.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.juancole.com/2008/07/bombs-kill-40-wound-dozens-al-duri.html">  The election of legitimate Sunni-majority provincial governments could undermine a key propaganda point of the guerrillas, which is that Iraq's government is a Shiite/Kurdish Iranian puppet that also is in Washington's back pocket.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.juancole.com/2008/07/bombs-kill-40-wound-dozens-al-duri.html"><DIV><A href="http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5gMNuGs7BptIjujim2EzDPkG-VTSg">Former vice president of Iraq Izzat Ibrahim al-Duri, called on Iraqi guerrillas to drive the US out of the country on Tuesday.</A>  Duri's cell and other Baathists in the north have been one important source of Iraq's violence, but the press tends to ignore the neo-Baath in favor of Muslim fundamentalists.</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.juancole.com/2008/07/bombs-kill-40-wound-dozens-al-duri.html"><DIV><A href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/15/AR2008071502777.html">Secretary of Defense Robert Gates warned against a militarization of American foreign policy</A> and stressed the role of the civilian state department.  Translation:  The Bush Senior Realists think Donald Rumsfeld,  Paul Wolfowitz and Doug Feith not only screwed up the Pentagon and almost destroyed the US armed forces but also imposed impossible burdens on it that other agencies should have borne.</DIV></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/E3BE7F97-EAE0-40FB-B3CB-0217F33431DC/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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