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2009-07-24 Iraq

Will the final American pullout from Iraq be a parade, a retreat, or a rout?

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Posted by GolfBravoUSMC 2009-07-24 11:56|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 Bambi & Co. are ~~working~~ hoping for a rout.

Posted by Barbara Skolaut">Barbara Skolaut 2009-07-24 12:44|| 2009-07-24 12:44|| Front Page Top

#2 The whole Iraq adventure was based on the premise that the Iraqi people will prove they are worth the effort to save them.

Posted by Penguin 2009-07-24 13:05|| 2009-07-24 13:05|| Front Page Top

#3 Bambi might like to see the Islamic Republic of Iraq, complete with nuclear weapons program.

Posted by Ebbang Uluque6305 2009-07-24 13:41|| 2009-07-24 13:41|| Front Page Top

#4 Of course there is always the "apology" option too as well as the parade, retreat, or rout options.

Hundreds of thousands of good men and women served in our military with distinction and honor and many made the ultimate sacrifice. Americans are very proud of our military.

Posted by JohnQC 2009-07-24 18:30|| 2009-07-24 18:30|| Front Page Top

#5 Newsweak. Nuff said? We know which option they're hoping for

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2009-07-24 19:38|| 2009-07-24 19:38|| Front Page Top

#6 The putz teh cite as an "expert" as a military historian who cannot even get a date right?

As for the comparison to Augustus loss in Germany, this guy refuses to acknowledge his error. The legions wre wiped out complete. WE've lost perhaps 5000 over 6+ yerars. And they use this as a valid comparison?

As to basic credibility, how about this quote from a 2003 interview: We possess several hundred atomic warheads and rockets and can launch them at targets in all directions, perhaps even at Rome. Most European capitals are targets for our air force. We have the capability to take the world down with us. And I can assure you that that will happen before Israel goes under

And FYI, the referenced comment about "ending as vietnam did" was written for and published at LewRockwell.com

Here is the full quote: " he who fights against the weak and the rag-tag Iraqi militias are very weak indeed and loses, loses. He who fights against the weak and wins also loses. To kill an opponent who is much weaker than yourself is unnecessary and therefore cruel; to let that opponent kill you is unnecessary and therefore foolish. As Vietnam and countless other cases prove, no armed force however rich, however powerful, however, advanced, and however well motivated is immune to this dilemma. The end result is always disintegration and defeat; if U.S troops in Iraq have not yet started fragging their officers, the suicide rate among them is already exceptionally high. That is why the present adventure will almost certainly end as the previous one did."

The guy has turned into a fucking loon.

Hey Martin van Creveld, have you always been a stupid tool, or are you just working hard at it?

Care to admit you were just dead assed WRONG?

Posted by OldSpook 2009-07-24 21:58|| 2009-07-24 21:58|| Front Page Top

#7 Apparently this dickhead knows nothing of Arab culture and The Strong Horse.

Posted by OldSpook 2009-07-24 21:59|| 2009-07-24 21:59|| Front Page Top

#8 One other comparison that idoit missed: Vietnam fell to the North Vietnamese ARMY not the VC (who were basically demolished in Tet '69) - it was a conventional invasion, several armored divisions, infantry, etc.

Hey van Cretan, where is the NVA that your scenarios requires? Hmm?

I could go on and on poking massive holes in thsi crap that Newsweak is allowing this tool to spread.

People like this piss me off to no end - and so do press monkeys that give them a megaphone but do not give equal time to someone that actually knows the fact and can pick apart douchebags like this supposed "military historian" (who seems woefully ignorant of history and more interested in spin than reason or facts).

Hey MSM - wanna see why you are vanishing? Crap like that article. That's why.

Posted by OldSpook 2009-07-24 22:05|| 2009-07-24 22:05|| Front Page Top

#9 As per COUNTERRORISM BLOG + AL QAEDA-IN-THE- MAGHREB [AQIM Militant Group-Network], AQIM has all but denied that, in their view, the ISLAMIST JIHAD IS TO THE DEATH. + that AQIM is in a race/comptetiion wid its fellow WORLD MUJAHIDEEN BROTHERS-COMRADES TO SEE WHOM WILL BE FIRST TO HOLD ISLAMIC PRAYERS INSIDE THE US WHITE HOUSE.

IOW, USA is de facto defeated iff not destroyed.

As said times before, the most decisive and dangerous phase of the WOT lies AHEAD OF US, NOT BEHIND US, ALA 2009-2012/2016 POTUS PERIOD + PAN-ISLAMIST NUCLEARIZATION = STRATEGIC WEAPONIZATION.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2009-07-24 23:04|| 2009-07-24 23:04|| Front Page Top

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