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2007-08-14 Britain

US 'surge' in Iraq 'likely to fail': British lawmakers, hopefully

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Posted by Delphi 2007-08-14 00:00|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top

#1 Once again, Vaseline in our time...

Posted by tu3031 2007-08-14 00:17|| 2007-08-14 00:17|| Front Page Top

#2 Elsewhere, lawmakers reviewed their Indymedia talking points

Once again, Vaseline in our time...

Delphi and tu Score!

Posted by Red Dawg">Red Dawg 2007-08-14 03:05|| 2007-08-14 03:05|| Front Page Top

#3 If field troops aren't allowed to treat a little ethnic cleansing of Sunni-Shiite areas as conducive to security, then failure is certain.
If Republicans support Clintonism - like the Kosovo' sharia enforcement - then Americans will be handed a choice: Clintonism v Clinton. That would hand Hillary a witches broom flight to the White House.

Posted by McZoid 2007-08-14 05:03|| 2007-08-14 05:03|| Front Page Top

#4 Elsewhere, lawmakers reviewed their Indymedia talking points

Light blue highlighter means a Seafarious comment, Red Dawg. The poster's comments are in strong yellow, as opposed to Fred's lighter, post-it note yellow.

Posted by trailing wife 2007-08-14 06:26|| 2007-08-14 06:26|| Front Page Top

#5 and why do they think that the US is gonna fail. could it be that they failed in barse and trying too save face

Posted by Jesus saves 2007-08-14 08:30|| 2007-08-14 08:30|| Front Page Top

#6 This is actually an improvement!! Our Congressional Leaders (Reed, etc.) have declared the war LOST!

Posted by sam3rd">sam3rd 2007-08-14 09:03|| 2007-08-14 09:03|| Front Page Top

#7 On the Israel-Palestinian issue, British and Western governments' attitude towards Hamas had helped seal the fate of the fledgling national unity government and had failed to resolve factional violence, they said.

NAW, couldn't be that the Paleos got the gov't they voted into office, could it. Nope, it's Britain and the U.S.'s fault that Hamas groupies are so violent. Jeebus, how do these yahoos get elected?

Posted by BA 2007-08-14 09:14|| 2007-08-14 09:14|| Front Page Top

#8 Such is the sad state of the British leadership nowdays. Surrendering as fast as they can to the Islamofascists.

Posted by DarthVader">DarthVader 2007-08-14 09:23|| 2007-08-14 09:23|| Front Page Top

#9 Also likely to fail, fleeing the scene as the Royal Navy is taken hostage by goat-raping barbarians.

Posted by Excalibur 2007-08-14 09:45|| 2007-08-14 09:45|| Front Page Top

#10 If they took a moment to compare this with the IRA I don't think they would make those statements. I don't remember any calls to negotiate with them (the IRA). The way it was resolved was constant pressure and the IRA renouncing violence.

Posted by Unique Battle 2007-08-14 09:51|| 2007-08-14 09:51|| Front Page Top

#11 "The committee believes that the success of this strategy (the surge) will ultimately ride on whether Iraq's politicians are able to reach agreement on a number of key issues."

This is a clue to what's wrong in EU. What IS important is what the politicians do. Here in the US we simply replace those jerkoffs if they don't play well together. Perhaps we should replace a few Iraqi politicians to help the surge succeed. Not to impress the British lawmakers, but as a prelude to replacing them.
In the real world, the surge is a process of removing al Qaeda and al Qudslink from the streets of Iraq. When that job is complete, the surge is a success. It may be good timing to coordinate surge success with the next Iraqi election.

Posted by wxjames 2007-08-14 12:16|| 2007-08-14 12:16|| Front Page Top

#12 And it called for evidence of Iran's backing for insurgents in the south.

Iranian involvement is now on the same level as the search for WMDs. Scott Ritter must have a new job.

Posted by Skunky Glins5285">Skunky Glins5285 2007-08-14 13:16|| http://john-smokegetsinmyeyes.blogspot.com/]">[http://john-smokegetsinmyeyes.blogspot.com/] 2007-08-14 13:16|| Front Page Top

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