WAR IN IRAQ

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A year makes. A report from Fallujah, Iraq.

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  • Posted By: bharvey @ 01/10/2008 3:22:14 PM

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  • Posted By: MrSteffLaX @ 12/27/2007 7:09:55 PM

    My son, Marine Capt. Ryan Steffenhagen, recently returned from Fallujah (safely) is proud of his service there and gratified to note the favoarable developments. He is convinced that, tho there was much incompetence in the initial years of the occupation, history may yet show a worthy outcome. He took great pride in the idea of helping the Iraqi people to live in freedom.

  • Posted By: bellbers @ 12/27/2007 6:23:20 PM

    Any and all progess in the Anbar area is good news for our Marines. They did not start out rebuilding and providing necessities for the Iraqi people but trying to stay alive and protect civilians and military alike. I admire the fact that they are doing what they can to get the country back to running on it's own. I will be glad when all of our heroes are back home. My son is completing his 3rd deployment in Fallujah and says things are greatly improved and safer.

  • Posted By: cmullis2000@yahoo.com @ 12/27/2007 4:00:35 PM

    eat it libs

  • Posted By: cmullis2000@yahoo.com @ 12/27/2007 3:52:13 PM

    hey fartbuster, i got your wmd

  • Posted By: Bartbuster @ 12/27/2007 11:57:02 AM

    We didn't invade Iraq to build schools and provide electricity, we invaded because of the threat of imaginary WMD. How is the search for that imaginary WMD coming along?

  • Posted By: Bartbuster @ 12/27/2007 11:54:19 AM

    We didn't invade Iraq to build schools, we invaded because of imaginary WMD. How is the search for that WMD coming along?

  • Posted By: lpenny @ 12/27/2007 3:58:30 AM

    It is really cheerful to see the city finally come to peace. Hope all the war in the world can come to an end . Though the war seens to go over, there is still a long way to go in order to make the city steady and recovver.

  • Posted By: SeekerofTruth @ 12/26/2007 11:59:51 PM

    Dan- LMAO. Ted is working on a VP spot. Pelosi is making sure the republicans are labeled as not caring about children's health and Reid is taking floor time to slip his name into Rush's ebay auctioned letter. It's not pretty on either side. Let's hope Iowa gets it right and tags the right fresh meat into the white house. Hillary, you are NOT fresh meat my friend, your carpet bagging NY senate leadership rebranding was impressive, but hopefully not enough. I want to hear both sides of the issue and that means stomaching the deaths of soldiers as well as their accomplishments.

  • Posted By: politically incorrect @ 12/26/2007 11:42:06 PM

    Is it worth 3,897+ American dead for a stable Iraqi democracy? Ultimately, history is written by the victors. Was it worth 250,000+ American lives to end fascism? Since we won that conflict, the politically correct answer is yes, and anyone who says it wasn't is branded a Jew-hating nut-bag (i.e. Pat Buchanan). Yet the fascist regimes of that time might have gone the way of Spain and other Latin American fascist governments and modernized into democratic western allies, just like the former Soviet block has, and we'd have saved 250,000 American lives. Was it worth 600,000+ American lives to win the Civil War? If you say no, you're marginalized to the fringes (like Ron Paul). But at the time, every other slave-holding nation in the world was fading out slavery - Brazil was the last to end it in the 1880's. Was it really worth 600,000+ American lives to do it twenty years sooner?

    If we achieve our goals in Iraq, and I hope we do, then the Iraq war automatically becomes a Just War and the 3,897+ Americans who've died there are patriots who sacrificed themselves for a great cause. If we fail in Iraq and are forced to withdraw, then the history books get to be written by the same folks who wrote the book on Vietnam - It was a failed attempt by American Imperialists to invade a weaker country, and the American servicemen who died there were a bunch of fools who got duped into an Unjust War. Both renditions are flip-sides of the same coin that is reality.

    Several years from now, if all of our goals in Iraq and that region have been met, will the folks who were against the war from the outset be branded Al-Qaeda sympathizers? I hope not. But then again, history is written by the victors.

    I guess I just can't stand the thought of people like Sean Penn and Tim Robbins telling me 'I told you so'. It was hard enough swallowing it from the likes of Jane Fonda.

  • Posted By: twmutm @ 12/26/2007 9:58:02 PM

    What happens when al Sader regain his popuarity and now voids the cease fire of 6 month. We have a dept. in Iraq controlling the weapons that is manned by two (2) personal to distrubute weapons that can't accouint for 190,000 weapons and no accountability and now says it is totally undermanned and now that dept has been assured that it will be fully staffed, five and one half years after in original star of this agression of the USA, and now and only now are they going to have accountabilityle.of thes weapons. What do you think al Sader will do when he realizes that Petreaus ( who was right in Mosul in '03 that had the safest area in Iraq until the joint chiefs thought thsat he wasn't killing enough for there own war). BTW: one month after the 101st pulled out the mess tent of the 82nd was struct by a sucude bomber that killed 19 US Marines. They stuffed Petreaus 101 Airbourne out of Mosul and brought in the 82 Striker Batalion with their Bradly fighting veheciles and demolished the good work that was done by Petreaus and now 5 years later they bring Petreaus back as commander of ground forces. Kinda like the "HAIL MARY PASS" that won the game for BC/
    This government is arming the Sunni with weapon and it will come to pass that those weapons will be used to topple the "DEMOCRATALLY ELECTED" government of the Iranian back government.. Our military did a fantastic job with the limnit amount of resources . The Adler Family according to NECN report on deaths of Bedford MA. family lost their son age 20 in Oct '03 for not having proper armourment and his Father hounded Sen. Kennedy to lobby congress to get those California sports vehicles armed and bring them up to safety standards. He died 3 days after pleading with his Father to help them get proper vehicles. It will be a long time before our country has fewer than 100,000 troops in harms way. This was the stepping stone into Iraq by way of New York city to build a empire for Cheney/ Bush legacy. Rep John Boehner R-OH said that the sacrifice of 3,700 men and women was a "SMALL PRICE TO PAY FOR OUR POSITION" in the Middle East. Well Jonh it is now 3,897 dead just to build a NATION for defense of OIL and ISREAL.

  • Posted By: ItOnlyLooksLikeCoolaid @ 12/26/2007 5:38:17 PM

    Did this guy just say "it looks like the war in Iraq is won"? Exactly what did we win. Define victory. Out of the Presidents own mouth, he stated over 30,000 Iraq civilians were killed during the initial Air Campaigns. And its well documented that millions of refuges were created over the years of this conflict whom created a burden on ALL of Iraqs neighbors(whom by the way we gave no assistance to). And do you realize we're borrowing money from the Chinese to help prosecute this occupation? Yes...occupation. Even the President stated that famously with the words "Nobody wants to be occupied.".... "I wouldnt want to occupied".

    • Posted By: danrather @ 12/26/2007 9:05:18 PM

      To ItOnlyLooksLikeCooloaid:
      I wouldn't mind being occupied...The Dallas Cowboy cheerleaders can occupy my house anytime, speak for yourself moron.

    • Posted By: toofyhead @ 12/26/2007 6:04:58 PM

      I'd rather be occupied by democratic army than a fascist dictator like Saddam. Sorry, pal, you tried but YOU lost and, not to be cliche, but America and freedom won.

  • Posted By: danrather @ 12/26/2007 8:55:59 PM

    This is not good news for us Democrats...we need more killing over there, more I.E.D.s or we don't stand a chance for re-election...Harry Reid and Pelosi have failed us, should have got us out of there. We need more deaths not a surge that's working. Can't Iran get more bombs across the border? This is terrible, where the hell is Ted Kennedy on this? Haven't heard a peep out of him in months.

  • Posted By: Winben @ 12/26/2007 8:04:03 PM

    It is funny but there are pople in the US who think they have the "right" to freedom but do not believe that the "right" extends to others. They won the birthplace lotto and somehow think they have done something to deserve the country that makes them possible.

    A rising tide lifts all boats and freedom expanded makes our own sustainable. The bulk of the people that complain that "our" money is being spent in Iraq and Afghanistan do not understand history. The same ilk complained about the money being spent on the Marshall Plan after WWII. What would the cost be of the conflagaration if another terrorist attack occured or if the Middle East had been allowed to continue on the path it was on?

    Those of you that are thoughtful, do not shatter your shield trying to break down the door of ignorance. If they are not of understanding of human history and how it repeats, they are most certainly not going to burden their arguments with the weight of pesky facts

  • Posted By: pinkpanther87413 @ 12/26/2007 3:02:10 PM

    Victory my arass! We spend 2 billion a day to stay. How much do they spend, zero, they have been through this many times for 3000 years and know they have the upper hand, called patients, and 4 tons of missing RX explosives!! we can say and do what ever, but as long as they live there, and it's there backyard to play in, we only stand a chance of bankrupcy, and get closer to it daily! Guess what??? THEY KNOW THIS!!! after all it is THERE COUNTRY not ours! We have 99.8% of our military in Iraq and Osama Bin-Who is not there, and never was! As the terrorist responsable for the WTC came from Saudi, a country we don't give a darn about, as long as we OWN IRAQ. That much RX explosives can make IEDs for the next 150 years, and i'll bet good money it's stashed near the Iranian border, to misdirect our eyes, to Iran, instead of there stash! Wow sounds like what we would do! I guess we taught them well in the 80s. It's not over till we leave, and they are allowed to run there own country, but as long as we can profit from there oil we will never leave, even if we do go belly up just like the Russians did! Bush win, not even his father agrees that we can afford to do so, as this was his REASON in 91 for not going to Bagdad after taking Kuwait IRAQ! NEVER FORGET THEY CAN AFFORD TO TAKE A BREAK AND RECOUP, WE CAN'T EVER AFFORD TO CHILL AS THEY CAN. WAKE UP THEY ARE FIGHTING FOR THERE FREEDOM, BUT NOT BY OUR DEFINITION SO WE GIVE THEM AN ADJECTIVE NAME OF TERRORIST? WHAT WOULD YOU BE IF OUR BORDERS ARE BREACHED. I'M A TERRORIST WHO WOULD MAKE BIN-LAUDEN LOOK LIKE TINKER BELL! ANYONE WHO DOESN'T IS A COLABERATOR, OR PLAIN GUTLESS, BUT I'LL BET GOOD MONEY YOU AND EVERYONE NOT IN THE MILITARY WOULD BE A TERRORIST, AS WE FIGHT FOR OUR FREEDOM! LABELS ARE FOR POLITICIANS TO DECIDE, NOT WHAT YOUR HEART SAYS!

    • Posted By: JinxB @ 12/26/2007 5:57:52 PM

      99.8 percent of our military is in Iraq? Wow. I think you are full of, ahem, bluster. Prove otherwise, smart guy.

  • Posted By: pinkpanther87413 @ 12/26/2007 3:53:00 PM

    SADDAMS SECRET WRITTEN AND PLANTED BY YOU FAVORIT LOCAL GOVERNMENTS SET OF LETTERS CALLED THE C.I.A. SWORN AS TRUE BY CHENEY HIMSELF,RIGHT?

  • Posted By: hypnotoad3000 @ 12/26/2007 3:23:22 PM

    A new book shows Saddam did support al Qaeda and the Taliban:

    'Both In One Trench: Saddam's Secret Terror Documents'

    http://www.bothinonetrench.com

    • Posted By: pinkpanther87413 @ 12/26/2007 3:49:47 PM

      HYPNOTOAD TO FUNNY, BUT STILL THE WINNER OF THE COMPITION. NO DISRESPECT INTENDED JUST A FUNNY CALL NAME. FURTURAMA THE DREAM OF DREAMS! IF WE AS A SPECIES LAST LONG ENOUGH TO EVER SEE THE FURTURE HU!

  • Posted By: pinkpanther87413 @ 12/26/2007 3:46:30 PM

    SO DID WE! SUPPORT BIN-LAUDEN AND THE AL-QUEDA AND ABOUT 100,000 OTHERS ALONG WITH 20-30 MILLION BUCKS, WEAPONS AND STINGERS TO BOOT, AND AS PER OSAMA HIMSELF "HUSSIAN IS THE WORST *** IN THE WORLD AND IF ALLAH TAKES HIM TODAY, TOMORROW HE WILL SPIT HIM OUT" IE: HUSSAIN AND BIN-LAUDEN HATED EACH OTHERS GUTS AND NO BOOK WILL EVER TELL ME, WHAT I'VE ALLREADY HERD WITH MY OWN TWO EARS OR DONE IN MY CAREER IN THE SERVICE, THAT I AM WRONG,THE BOOK IS !!! BELIEVE THE BOOK. IT JUST SHOWS HOW THE MEDIA PLAYS THE PEOPLE AND HOW THE CIA MOLDS OUR OWN THOUGHTS!

  • Posted By: hypnotoad3000 @ 12/26/2007 3:22:38 PM

    A new book shows Saddam did support al Qaeda and the Taliban:

    'Both In One Trench: Saddam's Secret Terror Documents'

    http://www.bothinonetrench.com

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