Thread: Iraq News

I rely on non-lame-stream, objective sources like the Washington Post.

Originally Posted by stroller

I rely on non-lame-stream, objective sources like the Washington Post.

Take away here seems to be the increasing number of GOP members voicing concerns. Link contains excepts from the hearing so will try to read the entire session before forming an opinion.

The war was won long ago (2003)

Regime change has ocurred.

Iraqis are fitting out the last puzzle pieces by themselves -- securing their cities, borders and settling into the routine of elections. Aside from being far too expensive and slow, as measured by objectives, its been quite successful.

Originally Posted by Texpat

The war was won long ago (2003)

Regime change has ocurred.

Iraqis are fitting out the last puzzle pieces by themselves -- securing their cities, borders and settling into the routine of elections. Aside from being far too expensive and slow, as measured by objectives, its been quite successful.

Got that right but don't tell the news to the moonbat nattering nabobs of negativism tho...

"Puzzle pieces" - nice one.

Originally Posted by Texpat

The war was won long ago (2003) Regime change has ocurred. Iraqis are fitting out the last puzzle pieces by themselves -- securing their cities, borders and settling into the routine of elections.

Good, due time for US to leave then

Originally Posted by stroller

"Puzzle pieces" - nice one.

Well, before we went in they were fodder for Saddam's plastic/human shredding machines and gas so which is worse?

Violence at lowest level in four years

CNN
Today

BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- The level of violence in Iraq has dropped within the past week to a level not seen in four years, a military spokesman said Sunday.

"Iraq-wide, we have seen a significant reduction of violence," said Rear Adm. Patrick Driscoll, spokesman for the Multi-National Forces.

"In the past week, security incidents decreased to levels we have not seen since March of 2004. These figures reflect a decrease in attacks of some 70 percent since the surge operations began in June of 2007," he said.

However, two separate blasts wounded at least 16 people in Baghdad earlier Sunday, the Interior Ministry said.

A roadside bomb targeting a police patrol went off near the Turkish Embassy in the Waziriya neighborhood in northern Baghdad on Sunday morning, the ministry official said. The blast wounded at least five people: two police officers and three bystanders.

In the second attack, a bomb inside a parked car went off as a convoy for Babil's provincial governor drove by in western Baghdad on Sunday afternoon, an Interior Ministry official said. It was not not immediately known whether Gov. Salim al-Muslimawi was part of the convoy when the bomb went off. The blast hurt 11 people, including seven members of the governor's security detail.

Driscoll also updated numbers from raids conducted in several Shiite neighborhoods of Baghdad on Friday. More than 513 people of interest were initially screened by Iraqi National Police, he said, and the Iraqi Army detained 128 people. U.S. forces screened 385 people, he said, and 344 were released.

Troops from Multi-National Division -- Baghdad took 40 people into custody, he said. Five of those were wanted criminals, and the remaining 35 were detained for questioning.

Several hundred Iraqi soldiers, with U.S. troops providing security, conducted the raids in the al-Amal and Bayaa neighborhoods in southwest Baghdad and the northwest Baghdad neighborhood of Rahmaniyat al-Shula, officials said.

http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/meast/05/25/iraq.main/index.html

Sounds like they're getting the hang of it ...

Originally Posted by Boon Mee

Originally Posted by stroller

"Puzzle pieces" - nice one.

Well, before we went in they were fodder for Saddam's plastic/human shredding machines and gas so which is worse?

Not sure how your comment relates to my quote?

But they've been fodder for terrorist hunting US soldiers, 'security' providing contractors, AQ, Shiite and Sunni militias since 2003 - ask them which is worse.

Stroller's idea of pre-war Iraq reminds me of the Burmese junta before international media arrived.

"We have no problem here. Everything is perfect. Watch, we're going to hold elections despite a cyclone just having ripped the ass out of half the country.

No problem here!"

Riiiiight. What a short memory we have eh troller?

Originally Posted by Texpat

Stroller's idea of pre-war Iraq reminds me of the Burmese junta before international media arrived.

I have not made any comment on pre-war Iraq.

You're talking out of your arse, again.

Originally Posted by Texpat

Stroller's idea of pre-war Iraq reminds me of the Burmese junta before international media arrived.

"We have no problem here. Everything is perfect. Watch, we're going to hold elections despite a cyclone just having ripped the ass out of half the country.

No problem here!"

Riiiiight. What a short memory we have eh troller?

So, when's the USA invading Burma?

Originally Posted by Panda

So, when's the USA invading Burma?

Sure the US would be happy to join as a minor partner in a coalition of the willing led by the UK.

Originally Posted by raycarey

Originally Posted by Texpat

The war was won long ago (2003)

this is precisely the sort of chicken hawk BS that exemplifies the likes of texpat.

Don't be too hard on Tex. He believes everything GWB says. "Mission Accomplished". Yea sure....

Almost 7 years on the war in Afghanistan (re--- Al Qaeda, Taliban, Osama Bin laden, 9/11-- remember?) is bogged down while Bush and his cronies devote the vast majority of their military resources in Iraq, -- a country that posed no threat whatsoever to USA. Now the war drums in USA are beating again with an eye towards Iran. WTF is going on with these NeoCon morons? Are they really interested in avenging 9/11 and eliminating terrorist threats against their country, or is it just an excuse for regime change in unfriendly countries with lots of oil?
You don't need to be an Einstein to figure out the answer.

Originally Posted by Panda

WTF is going on with these NeoCon morons?

They are trying to distract ordinary Americans (who seem easy to distract BTW) from the crisis and chaos that the American economy has become...

Maybe he got ass raped by a coupla French sailors when they stopped in Newport News for some R&R. Ray and Beth were on a date (he liked to go hang around like real men in the bars by the wharf) and the Frogs couldn't tell which one was the woman. They guessed right.

Originally Posted by Texpat

The war in Iraq lasted a few weeks and was a rousing success.

just like texpat to declare victory at the end of th first quarter.....and call it a 'rousing success'.

Originally Posted by Texpat

I retired

you quit when the bullets started flying. but feel free to phrase it however you like.

40,000 soldiers diagnosed with PTSD after texpat declared the war over.

Originally Posted by Texpat

The war in Iraq lasted a few weeks and was a rousing success.

Then bring home your soldiers!
And don't let the fuckwit McCain keep them there until 2012.

Originally Posted by lom

And don't let the fuckwit McCain keep them there until 2012.

well it's better than 2108....which is what mcsame was saying a couple of weeks ago.

Originally Posted by lom

Originally Posted by Texpat

The war in Iraq lasted a few weeks and was a rousing success.

Then bring home your soldiers!
And don't let the fuckwit McCain keep them there until 2012.

They can't bring them home - their homes have been repossessed!

https://teakdoor.com/us-domestic-issues/29578-us-so-proud-its-troops-makes.html#post639384

Originally Posted by lom

Originally Posted by Texpat

The war in Iraq lasted a few weeks and was a rousing success.

Then bring home your soldiers!
And don't let the fuckwit McCain keep them there until 2012.

Those who ignore the past are doomed to repeat it?

We still have soldiers in Japan, Korea, Germany, Bosnia & the ME.

Heh...bring them home...that's a good one!