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Purveyor

(29,876 posts) Sun Jun 29, 2014, 07:46 PM Jun 2014

Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei: Iraq War A Showdown Between Humanity And Barbarity

By Newsweek
Sunday, June 29, 2014 7:32 EDT

DUBAI (Reuters) - Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei called the Iraq conflict a "showdown between humanity and barbarian savagery" and criticized Western media for portraying it as a war between Shi'ite and Sunni Muslims.

Outside powers have often exploited ethnic and religious divisions in Muslim states and "they dream of a war between Shi'ites and Sunnis" that would not happen, he said in Tehran, according to an official statement.

He warned against what he called Western propaganda about "a cast of morons and Saddam Hussein leftovers," apparent references to the radical Sunni Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) group and Sunni tribes who once sided with the country's deposed dictator and now fight with ISIL.

"The incident in Iraq is not a war between Shi'ites and Sunnis," Khamenei said at a meeting with families of victims of a 1981 bombing that destroyed the Tehran headquarters of the ruling Islamic Republic Party in 1981.

"It is a battle between supporters and opponents of terrorism, it's a war between fans of America and the West and those favoring independence for their nation," he said of the Iraq violence. "It’s a showdown between humanity and barbarian savagery."

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Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei: Iraq War A Showdown Between Humanity And Barbarity (Original Post) Purveyor Jun 2014 OP

America always knows better than the locals, how could imperialism exist without the imperial part? Fred Sanders Jun 2014 #1

I spent some time at LiveLeak today. Digital videography brings the struggle home. Loudly Jun 2014 #2

My god, George Bush handed Obama such a cluster f%$k. bradla Jun 2014 #3

K&R It's exhausting just thinking about it. n/t Jefferson23 Jun 2014 #4

A Showdown Between Humanity And Barbarity Cartoonist Jun 2014 #5

Fred Sanders

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1. America always knows better than the locals, how could imperialism exist without the imperial part?

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Sun Jun 29, 2014, 07:49 PM

Jun 2014

Loudly

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2. I spent some time at LiveLeak today. Digital videography brings the struggle home.

Reply to Purveyor (Original post)

Sun Jun 29, 2014, 07:56 PM

Jun 2014

And as I looked into the eyes of all the latest dead, I saw myself.

Savoring a food or drink. Delighting in the delight of others.

No side to take nor fear of not taking.

The dead are not lost if they preserve the living.

bradla

(89 posts)

3. My god, George Bush handed Obama such a cluster f%$k.

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Sun Jun 29, 2014, 08:30 PM

Jun 2014

Go back and watch some of the documentaries on the Iraq war. There were so many mistakes. From disbanding the Iraqi army, to not paying them a measly $20 per week they were asking for. All of that money we sent over there, lost, wasted, and we could not pay each member of the former Sunni army $20? It was not just the decision to go to Iraq which was a mistake, but also the decisions after the fall of Saddam. It is just astonishing. They did not make once correct decision. Not one single decision.

Jefferson23

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4. K&R It's exhausting just thinking about it. n/t

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Sun Jun 29, 2014, 08:40 PM

Jun 2014

Cartoonist

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5. A Showdown Between Humanity And Barbarity

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Sun Jun 29, 2014, 08:51 PM

Jun 2014

Which side calls itself the Caliphate? Isn't that a religious term? I thought so.

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