Iraqi Shi'ites playing waiting game in Iraq

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http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L15674902.htm

NAJAF, Iraq, Sept 16 (Reuters) - Yasser Thaferi, a young Muslim Shi'ite militiaman brandishing an AK-47 rifle on the steps of the Imam Ali mosque in the Iraqi holy city of Najaf boasts about his peoples' power to shake America.

"Our beliefs terrify the world...If the Shi'ites turn to fight the occupiers then American tanks cannot stay for long in Iraq," said Thaferi, standing near the tomb of the spiritual leader venerated by Iraq's majority Muslim group. snip

Unruly militias run by some of the more radical clerics such as the Mahdi Army of Moqtada al-Sadr, a fiery cleric with a large following among the poor Shi'ite slums of Baghdad, have already hinted at armed resistance against U.S. occupiers.

"Our ideology is against America," said one Shi'ite man after Friday prayers when worshippers chanted slogans against both Saddam and the United States. "At the right moment we will fight them."

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[Sweetpea]

1. Damn

I really feel for the troops.

[Robin Hood]

2. All right already!! When do the god damn flowers start flying?!!

I thought we won their hearts and minds? Didn't they get the damn memo?

[FlemingsGhost]

3. "Mission Accomplished"

So sayeth the flying monkey.

[DannyRed]

4. Why do I feel

Like the most prescient political analysis of modern times can be found in Frank Herbert's "Dune"???

What a nutty nutty world...