From: Adam 

Phil Payne wrote:
>>> I do think the Reps deserved to lose, and I was heartened by the lack of
>>> hysterics by the Dems in the immediate aftermath of the elections, but
> feel
>>> darkness descending upon the Iraqi people (and our major cities) with
> the
>>> rhetoric of late by, what I can only describe as clueless in the
> extreme,
>>> those same Dems.
>
>>> It is not a game, but they treat it as if it were.
>
>> It's politics & politics is simply a game with high stakes
>
> Not for the players.  You never see a poor one and rarely a dead one.
>
>

Saddam & some of his mates are no more. One lost his head.

It's ye olde emperor & the gladiators game.

"Ave imperator, morituri te salutant".

So the only question is weather you can keep your imperator status.

E.g. at the moment Sadr & Hakim both have it. Should they lose it then
they become just another gladiator & suddenly the sand can run red with
their blood.


Adam

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