"Rice calls for religious unity in Iraq"

[GreenPartyVoter]

Yeah. That's all it'll take to help these people mend their fences and get along.


BAGHDAD (AP) - Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice pressed for unity among Iraq's religious factions as she made an unannounced and heavily guarded visit to the country on Friday, including one of its most ethnically divided regions.

Rice made a personal appeal to Sunni Arabs to join new elections in December, but she sounded cool to an outside Arab attempt to foster political reconciliation. She also chided Iraq's Arab neighbors for being slow to send ambassadors to post-Saddam Iraq.

"We do support the principles of democracy and support efforts to bridge the differences among Iraqis," Rice said following a meeting with Iraqi Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari.

Earlier, she met with Sunni and other leaders in the ethnically split northern city of Mosul. Sunnis make up about 60 percent of the population there.

http://apnews1.iwon.com//article/20051111/D8DQFP1O0.html?PG=home&SEC=news

[Ian David]

1. Pick one religion and shut-the-fuck-up?? n/t

[meegbear]

2. Why can't those Muslims do the Christian thing and just get along?

:shrug:

[Nickster]

3. Do we really want all those factions unified right now?

I would think a complete religious show of unity in Iraq would be very bad for us. Weren't their religions unified when the British got thrown out of Iraq?

[texpatriot2004]

4. I call for Rice to get on the fucking clue bus. nm

[spindrifter]

5. Condi has a

fundamental misunderstanding of Islam. She can call for unity among Iraqis, but it makes no sense to call for unity among the sects. It's kind of like telling the Protestants and Catholics in N. Ireland to get over their differences because underneath it all they are Christians.

[joemurphy]

7. Let's get the Sunnis and the Shiis together and sing Kumbayah!

They've only been feuding for 1200 years. Let's bury the hatchet, eh?

[barb162]

6. When I look at that link

it states she "pressed for unity among Iraq's religious..." but it doesn't give her quote on it. I wonder if she meant to say religious "calm" or something like that which would have made more sense.

[Village Idiot]

8. OK - C'mon now, Sunnis, Sufis, Shi'ites...hug your neighbour now!

[MisterP]

9. Bush-worship maybe?