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2004-04-26 Iraq-Jordan

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Posted by tipper 2004-04-26 8:08:53 PM|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 yawn.. ___ blames US for child skinning knee. ____ blames US for zit breakout before prom. ____blames US for _____.

Yawn...wake me up if they don't blame us for something.

Posted by B 2004-04-26 8:33:39 PM|| 2004-04-26 8:33:39 PM|| Front Page Top

#2 B's comment hit the nail on the head. Iraqi blames the US...Palistinian blames the US...Saudi Arabian blames the US....Egyptian blames the US...Syrian blames the US..Pakistani blames the US...Iranian blames the US...Kuwaiti blames the US...Afghani blames the US...Muslims blame the US...etc.....Screw 'em all.

Posted by Mark 2004-04-26 9:08:42 PM|| 2004-04-26 9:08:42 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 Dammit - what's the use in having a puppet government if they're allowed to back-talk?

/sarcasm

Posted by Pappy 2004-04-26 9:19:45 PM|| 2004-04-26 9:19:45 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 If I wasn't sure that it would come back to bite us in the butt later, I'd say: let 'em kill each other, screw 'em. More and more, I'm coming around to the feeling that there are virtually NO moderate Arabs, only different degrees of cultural disease.

I don't know if Barzani's just playing politics, but he's sure coming across like a whiny, ungrateful SOB.

Posted by Xbalanke 2004-04-26 9:23:26 PM|| 2004-04-26 9:23:26 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 Xbalanke: I don't know if Barzani's just playing politics, but he's sure coming across like a whiny, ungrateful SOB.

Karzai was the same way. Muslims see opposition to the US as a way to burnish their credentials. Barzani's probably hedging - the equivocal responses he's seen from the US military to the situation in Fallujah and Najaf in recent days may have convinced him that the US is the weak horse. I don't blame him - when Saddam was faced with similar insurrections, he killed his opponents by the tens of thousands, together with all their families and friends. Our Achilles heel is that we are unwilling to kill enough of the enemy to win decisively - where Saddam not only killed his enemies, he killed all of their friends and relatives and any bystanders who just happened to be around.

Posted by Zhang Fei 2004-04-26 9:37:01 PM|| 2004-04-26 9:37:01 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 X - I've come to the same conclusion. I think we're only delaying the inevitable - and it will consume the entire Arab world in the process.

Good riddance.

Posted by spiffo 2004-04-26 9:48:48 PM|| 2004-04-26 9:48:48 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 In an exclusive interview with The Associated Press, Massoud Barzani said the United States faces a dilemma: It must not be soft in the besieged cities and give insurgents "the impression that they have the upper hand," but it also must make sure civilians are not harmed if military force is used.

What does this asshat think is going on with these delays in sweeping Fallujah and Najaf?

This is the predictable result of not using overwhelming force in a determined and prompt drive to kill off these "insurgents". Now, all those that are not willing to visibly stand by the U.S. are going to try nickel-and-diming us to death.

Posted by Bomb-a-rama 2004-04-26 10:05:19 PM|| 2004-04-26 10:05:19 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 Mark,

ca/Blame USA/Blame Bush/gi

and you will have the Democratic Party Platform....

(that is change all instances of Blame USA with Blame Bush...)

Posted by CrazyFool 2004-04-26 10:36:45 PM|| 2004-04-26 10:36:45 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 GW...This is what you need to do:
1) move 2 carrier groups back into the theater..
2) Address the nation, tell us there is no hope of Democracy without 'zero tolerance'...
3) Give the residents of Falluja and Najef 48 hours to flee the cities...
4)Take the nation to code "Red"
5)Seal the Iraqi borders; warn the UN...
6)Destroy Falluja COMPLETELY.. wait 2 days (like in Japan)...
7)Repeat in Najef...
8)Call me in the morning, if further assist is needed!!

Posted by smn 2004-04-26 11:14:34 PM|| 2004-04-26 11:14:34 PM|| Front Page Top

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