Thread: Iraq News

Originally Posted by Boon Mee

Are you aware during WW2 whenever an Allied 'combatant' - in this case a resistence fighter was cought by the Nazis he/she was summarily shot?

Are you aware that the terms "Allied combatant" and "resistance fighter" are mutually exclusive?

Are you also aware that intimating that if Nazi Germany did something then that somehow makes it ok for the US to do it also is an utterly crazy argument.

Originally Posted by Boon Mee

letting these 'boys' go to return to their evil ways

Those 'boys' have been held for years without being charged much less convicted of anything. Funny how you're indoctrinated so deeply as to forget this fundamental point of a democracy.

Originally Posted by AntRobertson

Originally Posted by Boon Mee

letting these 'boys' go to return to their evil ways

Those 'boys' have been held for years without being charged much less convicted of anything. Funny how you're indoctrinated so deeply as to forget this fundamental point of a democracy.

Again, if those boys were let go, more American lives are at risk so there they sit.
Don't be delusional - they are not going to be 'rehabilitated' at Gitmo or anywhere else.
As they say in Thai 'oot thon' - patience. They'll get their day in court soon. The tribunals are coming up.

Originally Posted by Boon Mee

Again, if those boys were let go, more American lives are at risk so there they sit. Don't be delusional - they are not going to be 'rehabilitated' at Gitmo or anywhere else.

The point is that you have convicted them and found them guilty ("terror-mongers who blow up innocent women & children"; "evil ways") solely on the basis that they are in Gitmo. Not because they've actually been charged and convicted of any crimes, but purely because they're there.

So much for the writ of haebas corpus.

ahem...

Iraq News

DAY 1,757 of the iraq fiasco....

1. al sadr is threating to end the cease six month cease fire on saturday....will the US military be extorted yet again by this guy?

2. 14 iraqi police blown to bits

3. 3 US soldiers killed by a roadside bomb.

your iraq news update is now complete.

Anti-US cleric's cease-fire in doubt - Yahoo! News

Originally Posted by Boon Mee

Originally Posted by stroller

Wrong thread there, Texpat, cartoons=Denmark.

And yeah, yeah, we know, Muslims deserve to be made to stand naked on boxes, electrocuted by the genitals etc., thank you of reminding us.

Not Muslims in general Mein Herr but just those terror-mongers who blow up innocent women & children. Could believe in Zeus or Buddha - doesn't make any diference what religion they are...

Fortunately the US gov and military do not share your enthusiasm for barbary towards captives.
Remember what happened to the perpetrators of Abu-Graib - heh!

Brace yourself... Moqtada Al Sadr’s ceasefire between the Mahdi Army and the Americans is set to expire Saturday in Iraq. If he doesn’t renew it (and he might not), it will be bad news for him, bad news for the coalition of the willing, and bad news for Iraq.

...and bad news for all those bloggers who declared "mission accomplished" (part 2).

Originally Posted by Boon Mee

Brace yourself.

brace yourself, i already addressed this point two posts above yours...and provided exactly the same link as your blogger cited.

so if the primary source is already on this page, why do you think TD posters want to read the opinions of some dope who blogs from his parents' basement in his pajamas?

unless of course, he/she is a dope.

heh.

Here's some more...

Iraq's Sadr expected to extend ceasefire - Yahoo! News

Brinkmanship maybe?

Originally Posted by sabang

Brinkmanship maybe?

Undoubtedly.
Probably a little money under the table too I should imagine.

Stars and Stripes, Mideast edition
February 29, 2008

In a somewhat unusual move, U.S. troops have responded to a call from an imam in Balad, Iraq, to help fortify his mosque.

Soldiers helped “increase force protection measures” this week at the Balad Shrine Mosque, according to U.S. military officials.

“The idea is to prevent future attacks on the mosque,” a news release issued Thursday read. “The soldiers were the first coalition forces to visit the mosque” after eight months of working with the imam and other local leaders.

In general, U.S. troops have avoided mosques because of religious sensitivities. In some cases, insurgent groups have taken advantage of that to use mosques as weapons storage points or safe havens.

Mosques have also been targets of attacks by both Shiites and Sunnis in sectarian attacks.

The troops dealing with the mosque leader included the 2nd Platoon, 164th Military Police Company, 728th Military Police Battalion, 18th Military Police Brigade. Other troops assigned to Multi-National Division—North also did the work.

The protective measures include some 160 barriers erected around the mosque.

Stars and Stripes: Balad imam asks U.S. to help secure mosque

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Nicely done Boys!

Nice.

Studies: Iraq costs US $12B per month

By CHARLES J. HANLEY, AP Special Correspondent Sun Mar 9, 5:02 PM ET

The flow of blood may be ebbing, but the flood of money into the Iraq war is steadily rising, new analyses show. In 2008, its sixth year, the war will cost approximately $12 billion a month, triple the "burn" rate of its earliest years, Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph E. Stiglitz and co-author Linda J. Bilmes report in a new book.

Beyond 2008, working with "best-case" and "realistic-moderate" scenarios, they project the Iraq and Afghan wars, including long-term U.S. military occupations of those countries, will cost the U.S. budget between $1.7 trillion and $2.7 trillion — or more — by 2017.

Estimating all economic and social costs might push the U.S. war bill up toward $5 trillion by 2017, they say.

Studies: Iraq costs US $12B per month - Yahoo! News

Quite mind-numbing numbers.

An Al Qaeda Torture House goes up...heh

^ misson accomplished, eh?

Originally Posted by raycarey

^ misson accomplished, eh?

Only when we get rid of you and your ilk, hell, I'll be happy to get rid of YOU.

Another one bites the dust...heh

High-Level al-Qaida Figure Is Captured

Way things are going for them al Qaidas, we'll have to add on to the facility over there...

Originally Posted by Boon Mee

Another one bites the dust

$12 billion/month and boon mee is creaming in his panties about one dead guy the US military says was a member of al qaida.

i don't plan to click through the link provided, but let me guess.....he was the number 3 al qaida leader, right? and if my calculations are correct .....(hold on i don't have my calculator....carry the three....just a sec........) he's the 138th al qaida #3 to be killed in iraq in the last year.

Originally Posted by raycarey

i don't plan to click through the link provided,

'Course not - typical liberal/progressive denial.

BTW - this latest one was not killed but 'captured' - OK?
Giving up all kinds of information I should imagine - possibly with the aid of some of that horrid H2Oboarding!

Work on that bi-polar learning/reading ability will ya ray?