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2008-01-29 Iraq

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Posted by Icerigger 2008-01-29 08:39|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 OK a bit corny but it's nice to see our boys having fun.

Posted by Icerigger 2008-01-29 09:59|| coonlakebeach.com]">[coonlakebeach.com] 2008-01-29 09:59|| Front Page Top

#2 The funny part is the reaction of the Iraqis. "These clowns kicked the crap out of the insurgents. How did that happen?"

Posted by rjschwarz 2008-01-29 10:49|| 2008-01-29 10:49|| Front Page Top

#3 Probably some of the best diplomats there are! :-)

Posted by gorb 2008-01-29 16:08|| 2008-01-29 16:08|| Front Page Top

#4 According to a link posted at the DrudgeReport, the Iraqis are having fun, too. link

Posted by trailing wife 2008-01-29 17:44|| 2008-01-29 17:44|| Front Page Top

#5 Thanks, Icerigger, I needed a good smile today. If that's corn, then I'll take a bushel! :-)

Your link is interesting too, TW:

"Shame on you to liken Moqtada al-Sadr to a penguin and humiliate him in front of all the world," says "Wisam" beneath the penguin clip.

"It is indeed a shame," agrees "Abdul." "He and his donkeys are far worse than penguins."

If Iraqis can maintain a functioning, non-tyrannical government with the freest speech in the Arab world, how will anyone be able to maintain that it would have been better to leave Saddam in place? That's a big "if", of course, but which of Bush's countless critics had a better solution to offer that wouldn't have been just as risky in the long run?

Posted by ryuge 2008-01-29 20:02|| 2008-01-29 20:02|| Front Page Top

#6 It doesn't need to be a better solution, ryuge, nor even just as good. It just needs to not be George W. Bush's solution.

Posted by trailing wife">trailing wife 2008-01-29 21:20|| 2008-01-29 21:20|| Front Page Top

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