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2015-05-17 Iraq

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Posted by badanov 2015-05-17 00:00|| || Front Page|| [8 views ] Top

#1 These guys are the JV,remember.

Posted by gorb 2015-05-17 01:19|| 2015-05-17 01:19|| Front Page Top

#2 "We knew this day would come. We've known it for some time. But still there is something profound about the end of a war that has lasted so long. It's harder to end a war than begin one. Everything that American troops have done in Iraq - all the fighting, all the dying, the bleeding and the building and the training and the partnering, all of it has landed to this moment of success."

Posted by mossomo 2015-05-17 02:10|| 2015-05-17 02:10|| Front Page Top

#3 Obama managed to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.

Posted by JohnQC 2015-05-17 08:09|| 2015-05-17 08:09|| Front Page Top

#4 Some would argue defeat was always his goal. His difficulty was making it look like he cared.

Posted by Bobby 2015-05-17 08:35|| 2015-05-17 08:35|| Front Page Top

#5 For Obama and Democrats - this is Victory.

The DEMOCRATS have always wanted to Iraq to be the new 'Vietnam'. They have had wet dreams of reliving their glory days of the Fall of Saigon.

From Reid's "The War is Lost" to M-F Murtha to Pelosi to Obama and Hillary; from the Media's refusal to report any good news, to Andrea Mitchell's orgasmic glee while reporting on Americans killed in Iraq. They have been working for this ever since they went into the war in Iraq.

And the RINO's in congress aren't any better.

Posted by CrazyFool 2015-05-17 16:18|| 2015-05-17 16:18|| Front Page Top

#6 CF: thanks for that mental picture; 'Andrea Mitchell' and 'orgasm' in the same sentence.....
(my puke cup runneth over)

Posted by USN, Ret. 2015-05-17 18:44|| 2015-05-17 18:44|| Front Page Top

#7 USN Ret - see: "Dust Storm"

Posted by Frank G 2015-05-17 20:24|| 2015-05-17 20:24|| Front Page Top

#8 Dempsey, you've lost *another* city?

he claimed, “is not symbolic in any way…

No, it's not symbolic at all. It's harsh facts on the ground - the enemy has taken a city. Spin it however you want, but the enemy controls more territory and you just lost a node in your network.

Posted by SteveS 2015-05-17 22:22|| 2015-05-17 22:22|| Front Page Top

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