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2011-12-31 Iraq
Hundreds of Iraqis cheer departure of US forces
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Posted by Steve White 2011-12-31 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11127 views ]  Top

#1 
CherryPicker has been deleted here, there and everywhere.

He is just another name for the malodorous, hate-filled troll from Israel.

Whatever name he chooses the use, the message from the Burg remains the same -- go away.

AoS
Posted by CherryPicker 2011-12-31 06:05||   2011-12-31 06:05|| Front Page Top

#2 CP, there are many among us who could make the same expression concerning the Europeans or for that matter South Koreans. There are many among us who even though born here have cheered the killers and oppressors. There'll never be a problem for the MSM to find a small group to highlight to promote its own brand of anti-Americanism.

I'd think it would be a reasonable bet that after the death of Custer, there were those on the coast who thought it a waste of lives and money to bother settling the Dakotas or with the seemingly unending war with the Apache to waste similar resources on the New Mexico territory. How many could envision what we have today back then to understand the trade offs that are always made.

Heck, I'm from a generation that the old veterans bemoaned how we 'lost' in Korea because we didn't 'win'. Anyone who looks at the night imagery of the peninsula today can grasp what has been achieved. However, those results came decade afterward, not in an instant, not in a few years.
Posted by P2Kontheroad 2011-12-31 08:08||   2011-12-31 08:08|| Front Page Top

#3 There are 30,000,000 Iraqis, of which about 10,000,000 are Sunnis. Of these, they were able to muster "hundreds" to cheer.

Big deal.
Posted by Anonymoose 2011-12-31 09:26||   2011-12-31 09:26|| Front Page Top

#4 I'm with anonymoose on this one.
The headline should read "Hundreds cheer. Millions worried spitless".
Posted by Frozen Al 2011-12-31 10:14||   2011-12-31 10:14|| Front Page Top

#5 We too are celebrating all the guys who are back home. Maybe no nation building, but we sure did kick some Sunni/Shia butt.
Posted by Creregum Glolump8403 2011-12-31 12:35||   2011-12-31 12:35|| Front Page Top

#6 I'm from a generation that the old veterans bemoaned how we 'lost' in Korea because we didn't 'win'.
I think we 'won' WWIII.
Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2011-12-31 12:47||   2011-12-31 12:47|| Front Page Top

#7 Everyone 'won' WWIII - because it didn't go nuclear. It helps when enemies are at least both rational.
Posted by Glenmore 2011-12-31 14:38||   2011-12-31 14:38|| Front Page Top

#8 Glenmore, there are a lot of US allies in SE Asia who got to lose WW-III.
Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2011-12-31 14:53||   2011-12-31 14:53|| Front Page Top

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