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If you read books, you would know, Iranian shiites and Iraqi shiites do not like each other.
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Dear McCain, you went to irak many time, but yet still get confused between shiites and sunni, Iranians, and Alquaida! so pls give us a break ....
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McCain is well meaning and principled, but still a befuddled old man who even in his supposed forte of foreign policy, can't keep shiites and sunis straight without Lieberman at his side.
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This is not Iraq where shiites and sunnies have their camps.
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Why no mention whatsoever about his track record on middle east policies which consists of mixing up shiites and sunnites, confusing Al Qaeda with other extremists?
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Certainly the Iranians have projected power ever deeper into the Middle East via Hamas, Hezbollah and Iraqi shiites -- more since the U.S. incursion into Iraq and certainly not because of the recent troop withdrawals.
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This has echoes in some Christian cults of the 19th century and their Gnostic antecedents who wanted to “immanentize the eschaton” — as well as the radical shiites in control of Iran who want to bring on world global conflict in order to enable the 12th imam to return.
Of The Government, By The Government, For The Government | RedState 2010
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Obama would shake Mahmoud Ahmadinejad hand and believe him when he says the enrichment of uranium will be used peacefully, or that there is no Irani militants training shiites in Iraq.
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Once we leave, those gangs will use those weapons against shiites and it will be a bloodbath.
Obama To McCain: "You Like To Pretend Like The War Began In 2007" 2009
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After 50 years of oppression, the shiites want payback.
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