Mission Accomplished!

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Well, we've achieved our goal in Iraq, of replacing a secular government with a fundamentalist, Islamic one.

What, that wasn't our goal?

Never mind.

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  1. Anonymous8:04 PM

    Certainly the faith of these moslems is strong, and it appears they have a theocracy fetish.

    Are there any moslem libertarians out there? It's probably a more obvious oxymoron than government worker.

    So Uncle Sucker made yet another good choice, sacrifice one dictatorship for another!

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  2. Anonymous5:57 AM

    Not just fundamentalist, but semi-socialist to boot (as Justin Raimondo points out http://antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=6725)

    Anon, yes there are some moslem libertarians in the U.S. -
    http://www.minaret.org/

    I don't know of any in Arab countries though.

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