Thread: A fact about Iraq ignored by all ... till now

For soldiers, gratitude and praise from an Iraqi mayor:

http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drm...713627,00.html

They're probably all going home to funerals.

I prefer the old not cut and paste and give links to obvious sites storekeeper.
The one that runs his mouth and says rude things often.

Are you saying you want me to try to get banned from TD ?

Nope, just prefer reading within the post than clicking on links that take you to employees of the US Government or occupied Iraq.
I'm ever so lazy you know.

Please forgive me ... I'm just trying to share a little light:

Iraqi Signal School Graduates Latest Class
CAMP FALLUJAH, Iraq, May 22, 2006 — The Iraqi Signal School at Taji Military Training Base certified 109 new signal professionals May 13 in a graduation ceremony that marked the completion of the school’s fifth class since it opened its doors in December 2005. Story

School Benefits More Than 800 Iraqi StudentsMOSUL, Iraq, May 22, 2006 — A newly constructed, 12 classroom school located in the center of Dahuk will serve approximately 840 students and 36 teachers. Story

U.S. Sailors Monitor Iraqi Oil Platform Security ABOARD AL BASRA and KHAWR AL AMAYA OIL TERMINALS, Iraq, May 22, 2006 — Forward deployed sailors attached to Mobile Security Detachment 71 are currently deployed to Iraq's two critical oil platforms, the Al Basrah and Khawr Al Amaya oil terminals, conducting maritime security operations. Story

^ glad to see that Oil is secured in Iraq

How about the Aussies: (You know I luv ya fellas )


Grieving widow was sent the wrong body

The widow of a soldier who died in Iraq woke the Australian prime minister to complain after a blunder over returning her husband's body.

And the kicker to her story:

Pte Kovco, 25, was the first Australian soldier to be killed in Iraq after reportedly shooting himself accidentally while cleaning his pistol.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main...28/nirq228.xml

The Iraq war's a complete failure! It all started with GW Butcher claiming that Iraq has got WMDs which can be launched in as little as 45 minutes! Mr. Blix the then IAEA chief repeteadly insisted that there ain't no WMDs in Iraq but the Butcher wouldn't listen to him. After the invasion Butcher came up with no WMDs which IMO was a real fiasco (still the focker wouldn't lose face, perhaps he's got steel face). He then changed his stance that the main reason to invade Iraq was to change regime.

I have one questions to ask you Storekeeper. Please spare some time to answer it.

Does the US have authority to employ military action to change regime?

Well, the reason keeps changing, 'flavour of the month' sort of thing.

But don't dismiss all the good things which are going on:
US marines patting Iraqi kids on the head and giving them sweets and all the other stuff they do to help the ones who survived first the invasion and then the insurgency.

Originally Posted by Storekeeper

Please forgive me ... I'm just trying to share a little light:

Iraqi Signal School Graduates Latest Class
CAMP FALLUJAH, Iraq, May 22, 2006 — The Iraqi Signal School at Taji Military Training Base certified 109 new signal professionals May 13 in a graduation ceremony that marked the completion of the school’s fifth class since it opened its doors in December 2005. Story

School Benefits More Than 800 Iraqi StudentsMOSUL, Iraq, May 22, 2006 — A newly constructed, 12 classroom school located in the center of Dahuk will serve approximately 840 students and 36 teachers. Story

U.S. Sailors Monitor Iraqi Oil Platform Security ABOARD AL BASRA and KHAWR AL AMAYA OIL TERMINALS, Iraq, May 22, 2006 — Forward deployed sailors attached to Mobile Security Detachment 71 are currently deployed to Iraq's two critical oil platforms, the Al Basrah and Khawr Al Amaya oil terminals, conducting maritime security operations. Story

I see that your sources here for this objective thread are from the U.S. government/military. Maybe you could post an objective thread on Taksin based on the information from MCOT and the Government House...

Originally Posted by stroller

Well, the reason keeps changing, 'flavour of the month' sort of thing.

But don't dismiss all the good things which are going on:
US marines patting Iraqi kids on the head and giving them sweets and all the other stuff they do to help the ones who survived first the invasion and then the insurgency.

You forgot about Saddam in the Slammer?
Kinda like your old buddy Rudolph Hess spending some 'quality' time in Spandau?

Originally Posted by Macha

The Iraq war's a complete failure! It all started with GW Butcher claiming that Iraq has got WMDs which can be launched in as little as 45 minutes! Mr. Blix the then IAEA chief repeteadly insisted that there ain't no WMDs in Iraq but the Butcher wouldn't listen to him. After the invasion Butcher came up with no WMDs which IMO was a real fiasco (still the focker wouldn't lose face, perhaps he's got steel face). He then changed his stance that the main reason to invade Iraq was to change regime.

I have one questions to ask you Storekeeper. Please spare some time to answer it.

Does the US have authority to employ military action to change regime?

Of course they do.George is a nice man.I like him.(Not in the biblical sense of course.)

Originally Posted by stroller

So, why did you invade Iraq?
To neutralise those WMD, because you "were attacked", to stop torture and human rights abuses, to spread democracy in the region, or as SK put it "because terrorism is a social problem in the US" (note I haven't mentioned oil or strategic reasons)?

Like to add a few more?

Those reasons are good enough for me!

Originally Posted by stroller

or as SK put it "because terrorism is a social problem in the US" (note I haven't mentioned oil or strategic reasons)?

I said that terrorism is a social problem period .... not a social problem in the US. It is a world wide social problem.

Originally Posted by Macha

Does the US have authority to employ military action to change regime?

When the 'regime' is a threat to US national interests they sure do...

Originally Posted by The Gent

Originally Posted by Macha

Does the US have authority to employ military action to change regime?

When the 'regime' is a threat to US national interests they sure do...

Might is right ??

Originally Posted by The Gent

Originally Posted by Macha

Does the US have authority to employ military action to change regime?

When the 'regime' is a threat to US national interests they sure do...

Asbsolutely so when the US regime is a threat to the world or to a specific country, it's ok to pre-empt a strike against the US I assume. Are you supporting the assassination of GW Bush then ?

Originally Posted by Butterfly

Originally Posted by The Gent

Originally Posted by Macha

Does the US have authority to employ military action to change regime?

When the 'regime' is a threat to US national interests they sure do...

Asbsolutely so when the US regime is a threat to the world or to a specific country, it's ok to pre-empt a strike against the US I assume.

Bring it on!

^ I think you are getting your ass kicked already by third world insurgents and friendly fire

Should Iran join and put you to rest ?

Remember Vietnam ?

For all of you who live and die by google ... open your eyes, the truth is out there. Never, I think, have we had a set of people more divorced from reality than we have in the critics of the liberation of Iraq...the most propagandised Russian under Stalin didn't swallow the amount of nonsense that American leftists eagerly consume as long as it has some anti-Bush angle to it.

ANother fact about Iraq the lefties don't want to know about:

A Boom In Iraqi Charities Post-Saddam


Surprisingly, this comes from the New York Times:

Since 2003 the government has registered 5,000 private organizations, including charities, human rights groups, medical assistance agencies and literacy projects. Officials estimate that an additional 7,000 groups are working unofficially. The efforts show that even as violence and sectarian hatred tear Iraq's mixed cities apart, a growing number of Iraqis are trying to bring them together. […] The burst of public-spiritedness comes after long decades of muzzled community life under Saddam Hussein, when drab Soviet-style committees for youth, women and industrialists were the only community groups permitted.

The US had full legal international sanction to liberate Iraq.
read here

If anything the USA showed overwhelming restraint.
Saddam thought the USA was bluffing. He was very wrong.

So with respect to those attempting to make the case that the current action is illegal: There is no case.

But they know that.

The intellectual dishonesty practiced by the Bush/america haters is remarkable.

Originally Posted by Mr Earl

The intellectual dishonesty practiced by the Bush/america haters is remarkable.

Just mired in the far-left fever swamps watching dancing unicorns in the fields thru rose-colored glasses singing 'Kumbaya' around the campfire! LOL
Hanoi Jane lovers, one and all...

Most international law institutions (whatever they are) have declared the war in Iraq illegal. Not sure why the US is trying to spin it otherwise, I thought the UN was irrelevant. You didn't get that second vote on the UN security council and you violated the UN charter, a supranational convention above the US constitution. Deal with it, the war was illegal not matter how the US want to spin it