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2009-01-04 Iraq

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Posted by GolfBravoUSMC 2009-01-04 02:31|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top
File under: Iraqi Insurgency

#1 Newsweak. Nuff said

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2009-01-04 11:42|| 2009-01-04 11:42|| Front Page Top

#2 They jsut cannot bring themselves to admit they wre wrong,a nd ahve to contort to such idiocies as

The outcome is hardly what the occupation's supporters wanted,

Lets se..

Terrs dead
Iraqis policing themselves
Open elections
Democratic government
People's rights restored
Economy BETTER than we found it
Violent Death rate lower than Detroit's
Iraqi Army trained and effective on its own ops

Sure we "oocupiers" didnt want ANY of those things.. yeah right. F**king rube propagandist.

Newsweak is now officially a leftist press organ.

Posted by OldSpook 2009-01-04 11:56|| 2009-01-04 11:56|| Front Page Top

#3 Prolly pissed they leaving the good service and quiet of Baghdad's 'Greenie Zone's Bar and Grill' for Jerusalem or Kabul and like any drunk A*hole leaving an establishment (Where's my story, I ordered a story, the meme was cold and the action flat - and I want a refund!) has to make a big scene on the way out, prolly pee all over the bathroom too.

Posted by swksvolFF 2009-01-04 12:20|| 2009-01-04 12:20|| Front Page Top

#4 Four years of the Newsweek bastards saying "We shouldn't be there. Withdraw."

Now that it's happening, it's "you're not leaving the place the way we'd like to be."

Makes me wish I'd gone ahead and slugged that journalist in Qatar back in '91.

Posted by Pappy 2009-01-04 13:01|| 2009-01-04 13:01|| Front Page Top

#5 "It's a hell of a lot better than I thought we were going to get four years ago fighting in Anbar, or two years ago in a civil war," says counterinsurgency expert John Nagl. "The high side may not be that high, but the costs of failure are severe."

It's a hell of a lot better than we thought we'd get four years ago, or two. The Newsweek journalist forgets, if he was ever capable of understanding, that Iraq was one battle in a long war, not the war itself. We succeeded in denying the jihadis Iraq's resources and support with the conquest of Iraq in 2003. We've enabled the Iraqis to demonstrate that self-rule is a viable alternative for Arabs, that they are capable of more than submitting to the most vicious strong man as the Arabs have done at least since Mohammed began jihad. And, we've allowed the Iraqis to demonstrate that they are capable of learning honour and the art of soldiery, to go beyond being bullies with guns abused by incompetent officers.

No, Iraq has not achieved First World perfection. But then, neither has a goodly section of the First World, eg New Orleans and the banlieus of Europe... and Belgium, now hoping some sort of deus ex machina will cause a successful government to appear.

Posted by trailing wife">trailing wife 2009-01-04 13:26|| 2009-01-04 13:26|| Front Page Top

#6 The fact that they use the term occupiers says a lot.

Posted by rjschwarz 2009-01-04 18:32|| 2009-01-04 18:32|| Front Page Top

#7 "Last day" > iff only it were true so everybody could come home. Unfortunately, MUSLIM/ISLAMIC MIL HISTORY suggests that there will very likely be a ROUND 2, etc. for the BATTLE FOR IRAQ, WHEREUPON THE SAME HISTORY MUSLIM ARMIES WILL MORESO THAN NOT PROVE MORE SUCCESSFUL THAN THE FIRST IN KICKING WESTERN HINIES, AND IMO MOST LIKELY AFTER IRAN IS ABLE TO SUCCESSFULLY INDIGENS NUCLEARIZE [2010 = NLT absolut maxima 2012].

IOW, POTUS-ELECT OBAMA + USDOD HAVE 2-4 YEARS TO PREPARE FOR THE ISLAMIST [nuclearized?]SECOND COMING.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2009-01-04 18:58|| 2009-01-04 18:58|| Front Page Top