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2008-04-05 Iraq

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Posted by Steve White 2008-04-05 00:00|| || Front Page|| [9 views ] Top
File under: Iraqi Insurgency

#1 Compare wid STARS-N-STRIPES/RENSE [paraph] > US JOINT CHIEF - NO MORE/NOT ENOUGH SOLDIERS TO FIGHT WAR IN AGHANISTAN.

HMMMMM, by the above methinks that leaves OSAMA + ZAWI + OMAR, etc. versus PUTIN-MEDVEDEV + RUSS ARMY???

Posted by JosephMendiola 2008-04-05 01:06|| 2008-04-05 01:06|| Front Page Top

#2 Show me the pictures, Mr. Top UN Oaficial. Make sure to include locations so they can be verified.

Posted by gorb 2008-04-05 03:03|| 2008-04-05 03:03|| Front Page Top

#3 Seems to know a lot for someone who hasn't been there yet

Posted by Oldcat 2008-04-05 07:40|| 2008-04-05 07:40|| Front Page Top

#4 we are not encouraging people to return to Iraq at the moment

Somebody should get the word out to all the dumb Iraqis who are returning at the rate of 1,000 per day. They just don't understand what they're getting into. It's nowhere near as nice as when Saddam was running things. Ask the UN if you don't believe me.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2008-04-05 08:41|| 2008-04-05 08:41|| Front Page Top

#5 "UN warns of very grave problems in Iraq"

No shit.

Oh, wait - you mean he wasn't speaking of the multiple mass graves we keep finding, courtesy of Al-Q?

Posted by Barbara Skolaut">Barbara Skolaut 2008-04-05 08:54|| http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/]">[http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/] 2008-04-05 08:54|| Front Page Top

#6 There is a very grave problem in Iraq for the UN.
They aren't there to try to seize power and fuck things up even more.

Posted by DarthVader">DarthVader 2008-04-05 09:22|| 2008-04-05 09:22|| Front Page Top

#7 John Holmes

Posted by bigjim-ky 2008-04-05 11:20|| 2008-04-05 11:20|| Front Page Top

#8 Things must be getting better in Iraq if UN Care Bears are finally showing up...

Posted by Pappy 2008-04-05 12:06|| 2008-04-05 12:06|| Front Page Top

#9 For future reference, the US military should make it a practice in future of having "Civilian Identification" units. The purpose of a CI unit will be to biometrically identify *everyone* the US meets, and issue them a picture ID card.

Importantly, all the *data* on the card will be in an encrypted format, so all that can be seen on the card is their photograph. This is so it cannot be used by the enemy.

The value of doing so is incredible. First of all, it is an automatic census. Second, a simple card reader can be issued to quickly verify ID and activity to a central US military database instantly.

Third, it makes most government services much easier to carry out, from voting, food rations, health care, identifying foreigners, refugees, criminals and enemy, etc., etc.

Since it is totally controlled by the US military, it is utterly honest.

Every time any group of civilians is encountered, they present their ID cards, or they are detained until their biometrics can be checked, and if they are not in the system they are entered into the system. If they are already in the system and they pretend not to have an ID, they are suspect.

Much of our administrative and military headaches in Iraq are because we didn't do this.

Importantly, we could even send a CI unit into adjacent countries to register refugees.

Posted by Anonymoose 2008-04-05 12:25|| 2008-04-05 12:25|| Front Page Top

#10 Four percent acute malnutrition would be a very big deal - and seems most unlikely. Due to a combination of economic geography and family/community support, very few Iraqis are vulnerable for something like acute malnutrition (as opposed to under-nutrition or chronic malnutrition, esp. some micro-nutrient deficiency).

Besides, I'm not sure how he'd come up with such a figure. Getting such data in most situations is devilishly hard. Probably just a wild-a**ed-guess.

In any event, the best "solution" to any actual problems is to establish and maintain security. Iraq has plenty of economic potential, not to mention being an agricultural country, so that a reasonably secure environment would lead to economic self-sufficiency or better.

Posted by Verlaine 2008-04-05 19:26|| 2008-04-05 19:26|| Front Page Top

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