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2005-04-13 Iraq-Jordan

Trained Iraqi troops now out-number US forces

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Posted by Dan Darling 2005-04-13 12:33:57 AM|| || Front Page|| [8 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 "a war fought over weapons of mass destruction that were never found. "

The press just cannot leave that lie alone.

Its not that they suspected WMD were there, its that there was an imminent trheat, based on best available intel (including French and Russian) that he intended to regenerate his WMD production capacity. And in the post-9/11 world, it was unaccaptable that the President of the US allow that risk to the Republic, given that Saddam had links to terrorists, including monetary support, supply and training.

The true, tacit reasson we went is geopolitics: proof for bad-guys that the US can and will go in to a place like Iraq when its interests are threatened, that we can and will fight and *win* against an insurgency in spite of the left and press's attempts to demoralize the nation by being a tool of the enemy, and that the US will spread freedom and democracy no matter how hard the UN and its dictators try to stop us.

But the press, trying to sum up and get in a one sentence jab, gets it wrong again. And they use the old Goebbels thing: a lie repeated often enough becomes the truth in the minds of the masses. Thank God for the web, so the press cannot get away with it anymore.

Posted by OldSpook 2005-04-13 9:20:52 AM|| 2005-04-13 9:20:52 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 It's Reuters. What else would you expect?

Posted by Pappy 2005-04-13 11:08:06 AM|| 2005-04-13 11:08:06 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 Actually this Reuters article waits until the 15th of 19th paragraph to get their antiBush dig in. That's a great improvement from even a few months ago.

Posted by mhw 2005-04-13 1:32:36 PM|| 2005-04-13 1:32:36 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 What mhw said. There running out of lies, and pushing them further into the background.

Even Al Reuters can sense which way the wind's blowing.

Posted by thibaud (aka lex) 2005-04-13 4:14:38 PM|| 2005-04-13 4:14:38 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 So who was saying there were no WMD's before we spent 18 months searhing for them, unencumbered? Kerry? Clinton? Kennedy? No. Not them.

If we had not invaded, who thinks Saddam would've let the inspectors roam freely? And even if he did, how long would it have taken them to declare there are no WMD's?

And who woulda believed 'em?

I think Old Spook has got it - the real message is we'll go anywhere, pay any price, fight any foe ... waitaminute... am I plagerizing somebody?

Posted by Bobby 2005-04-13 5:03:28 PM|| 2005-04-13 5:03:28 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 WE DON'T HAVE ENOUGH TROOPS!!!

WE'RE LOSING, VIETNAM, QUAGMIRE, AUGHHGH

, bitches.

Posted by JackAssFestival 2005-04-13 9:22:43 PM|| 2005-04-13 9:22:43 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 "a war fought over weapons of mass destruction that were never found. "

The press just cannot leave that lie alone.

Its not that they suspected WMD were there, its that there was an imminent trheat, based on best available intel (including French and Russian) that he intended to regenerate his WMD production capacity. And in the post-9/11 world, it was unaccaptable that the President of the US allow that risk to the Republic, given that Saddam had links to terrorists, including monetary support, supply and training.

The true, tacit reasson we went is geopolitics: proof for bad-guys that the US can and will go in to a place like Iraq when its interests are threatened, that we can and will fight and *win* against an insurgency in spite of the left and press's attempts to demoralize the nation by being a tool of the enemy, and that the US will spread freedom and democracy no matter how hard the UN and its dictators try to stop us.

But the press, trying to sum up and get in a one sentence jab, gets it wrong again. And they use the old Goebbels thing: a lie repeated often enough becomes the truth in the minds of the masses. Thank God for the web, so the press cannot get away with it anymore.

Posted by OldSpook 2005-04-13 9:20:52 AM|| 2005-04-13 9:20:52 AM|| Front Page Top

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Posted by OldSpook 2005-04-13 9:20:52 AM|| 2005-04-13 9:20:52 AM|| Front Page Top

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