Saturday, May 05, 2007

Illegals And Insurgents

Just a final few words about the illegal rally in Los Angeles on Monday. It would seem that someone has it wrong again as usual. They are going to be investigating the police for their behavior after they were attacked by the illegals and 15 police were injured. The use of riot sticks and rubber bullets was appropriate and measured. The illegals were the focus of the situation and they caused an escalation. There should have been mass arrests by ICE and the other law enforcement authorities who are tasked with protecting the citizens of their community from the bad guys; the illegals who not only flaunt our laws openly, but then attack the police who were designated to keep the rally under control. The police did nothing wrong and kept a tense situation from getting out of control as has happened in the past, remember after the Rodney King verdict when the city exploded with violence. This openly defiant group of criminals cannot be allowed to somehow blame the police for what happened. The police suffered more injuries than the rioters or the news crews who are always in the way and then whine when they get caught in the middle of such violence.
It now seems likely that the illegal immigration will try and use this incident to get more people to rally, but they may have gotten too arrogant for their own good and it may back fire and get citizens more motivated to stop this in its’ tracks before it gets more dangerous for everyone involved. Fellow americans, be afraid, very afraid, the integrity of our borders are compromised, our institutions corrupted, business supporting criminal illegals to save a buck and make a bigger profit and or politicians helping the illegals in every way possible to undermine our laws for future voting blocs.
Iraq emerged from two days of talks with its’ Arab neighbors as well as Iran, Syria, The United States, etc., as they try and get their neighbors to reign in outsiders who are rushing to Iraq to join the insurgency. They were able to get promises of help in this area, but were unable to get debt relief which they badly need. Also they were admonished to bring much needed political reforms to include the Sunni’s in more of the Iraqi government areas. Prime Minister al-Maliki said they will see if the agreed promises of help come true and if not he said there would be no more conferences.
One important area they had hope to make progress was stymied by the lack of will of both the Iranians and Condoleeza Rice, who exchanged small talk with the Iranians, but made no real progress toward anything. The Prime Minister said that the dispute between the United States and Iran is fueling much of the trouble that is occurring in Iraq.
Secretary Rice did talk to the Syrians for a half hour about their notoriously porous border with Iraq. Iraq has accused its’ neighbors of fueling the Sunni insurgents as the countries around them are mostly Sunni. The other countries in turn say that Iraq’s mistreatment of the Sunni’s, in favor of their ruling Shiites is the cause of the insurgency and that Iraq must share power with the Sunni’s if they wish for the violence to end.
In a declaration released at the end of the conference Friday, both sides repeated promises to meet the demands of the other. The declaration called for all states "prevent the use by terrorists of their territory" and bar their transit.




Iraq promised to "continue constructive steps" on reviewing the constitution and the program to exclude Baathists from key jobs.
But rifts remained. Notably, the foreign minister of regional Sunni powerhouse Saudi Arabia did not meet with al-Maliki, who held private talks with each of the other foreign ministers.
Ahead of the conference, Saudi King Abdullah also refused to meet al-Maliki during a regional tour by the Iraqi leader, underlining Saudi displeasure with the Iraqi government's closeness to Iran.
On Thursday, Saudi Foreign Minister Saud al-Faisal stopped short of announcing the forgiveness of Iraq's debt as U.S. and Iraqi officials had hoped. Instead, he told the conference Saudi Arabia was still negotiating with Iraq.
The kingdom, one of Iraq's biggest creditors, is owed between $15 billion and $18 billion. Iraq says its huge Saddam-era debt to various countries — amounting by some estimates to over $60 billion — is too big a burden when it is trying to rebuild. But other top creditors — including Kuwait, Russia and China — also did not announce immediate debt relief.
In his speech to the conference Friday, al-Faisal called on Iraqis "to rise to the level of their historic and moral responsibility" and enact the political reforms.
Al-Maliki sought to convince his neighbors his government was serious about reform, saying reconciliation "is not some passing political slogan for us, it's a strategic vision."
But he added a warning not to side with Iraq's Sunnis. "We ask our brothers and friends to respect the religious, sectarian and ethnical diversity of the Iraqi people," he said. "We will not allow any component of the Iraqi people to turn to foreign powers against another component."
But al-Maliki faces strong obstacles at home to the reforms. His Shiite allies in parliament have resisted a draft law for ending the program to purge Baathists; they also oppose changing the constitution to accommodate Sunnis.
Friday's declaration also calls on Iraq to disarm Shiite militias — a provision that brought a rebuke Friday from the movement of radical cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, a former ally of al-Maliki who leads one of the most feared militias.
"If the government disarms the people, how can the people defend themselves from extremists and Saddamists?" Sheik Abdul Hadi Al-Mohamadawi, a top Sadrist, said Friday in a sermon in the Iraqi city of Kufa.
So we shall have to wait and see if these agreements can be carried out by both sides as it is essential if Iraq is going to stand a chance in hell of coming out this this war intact or if the insurgents are successful and rip this country apart, which will lead to blood shed on a massive scale and will pour into the other nations in the middle east.
We shall write more on this later as well as watching what is occurring in the nation of Turkey which is one of the most secular in the region and where there is growing concern that the religious minority might make a comeback as they try and resurrect then Caliphate. More on this later. Take care and have a great evening.

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