Thousands Attend Mass in Iraq
Insert all the boilerplate MSM caveats here but note that this is amazingly good news.
Thousands of Iraqi Christians made their way to church through checkpoints and streets lined with blast walls, many drawing hope from a lull in violence to celebrate Christmas Mass in numbers unthinkable a year ago.
Prominent Sunni and Shia clerics also attended the services, in a public show of solidarity with their fellow Iraqis. Carve it any way you want, but this is certain and important progress.
(via memeorandum)
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I thought there was a terrible "civil war" going on there. The [C]ommunist [N]ews [N]etwork, the NYT, Dingy Harry Reid, Nancy Pee-loosey, how could they all be wrong?
Gen. Petraeus for Man of the Decade!
Except that Iraqi Christians used to go to mass (without fear of reprisals) every Sunday under Saddam's regime. Are you people that ignorant about history?
Indeed, and they lived under one of the most terrible tyrannies on the face of the Earth. Are you that ignorant of history?
Indeed, and they lived under one of the most terrible tyrannies on the face of the Earth. Are you that ignorant of history?
Jimmie
You are wrong. Eric is correct. You are lauding something that iraqis did for decades before your idiot in chief decided to be the decider. Your reverence for this imbecile is simply stunning – really stunning. History is making a fool of you Jimmie, but maybe you like it that way?
Gen. Petraeus for Man of the Decade!
Do we really want to honor a man who lost close to 200,000 weapons now being used against our soldiers?
daveinboca,
Do you think the poor and powerless shouldn't be held accountable for their actions too?
If so, you make a shitty conservative.
"Indeed, and they lived under one of the most terrible tyrannies on the face of the Earth."
A tyranny indeed; one that was supported and endorsed by the Reagan administration through most of the '80s. Although I don't remember the republicans using that word then. I think their word of choice then was 'ally'.
Eric, check your calendar. It's 25 years later.
Besides, there haven't been too many bloggers who have been as critical of realpolitik as I have. Just search for that word here at the site and read. We're nto talking about Reagan. We're talking about the here and now. And in the here and now there is no more tyrant in Iraq. That should make you happy.
My point about the 'tyrant' was that it is rather hypocritical to be foaming at the mouth about the 'one of the most terrible tyrannies on the face of the Earth' when it was a tyranny supported and endorsed by the Republican party (with the tacit approval of the Democratic party of course). When the Republican party has the courage to stand up and say 'this was a mistake we made in the past and we are taking care of it now' , we can let go of the issue.
My main point (which has not been refuted so far) is that it is ridiculous to use 'Christians going to mass' as a barometer of success in the Iraq invasion when they were going to mass peacefully for decades until (drum beat please) the US invaded and enabled the fundie Muslims to start terrorizing the Christian minority.
thousands attended Mass ??? wow thousands is such a big number !!
Oh wait the Christian population of Iraq WAS 1,000,000
So I guess "thousands" isn't that significant.