In Iraq, more bad news: Gen. George W. Casey Jr. told Congress Thursday that at present, only one Iraqi battalion is prepared to fight the insurgency without U.S. help — down from three battalions reported to be ready just a few months ago.
That’s bad news, considering that any significant U.S. troop withdrawal in 2006 has been linked to Iraqi troops’ ability to stand on their own. A political solution to the insurgency is looking equally remote, because the new draft constitution has failed to win over the Sunnis. Even if, as expected, Iraqis approve the constitution in the upcoming vote, a full-blown civil war could still erupt.
Meanwhile, the devastating bombings continue.
Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld tried to put a positive spin on the Iraqi troop news, but not many in Congress were buying it. At some point, results speak louder than words. Where are the results in Iraq? Where is the plan for either victory or a credible exit?
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Anybody getting a sense of deja-vu here?
Now this blog here is fish bait for idiots.
Randy says:”One more time — WITH F — E — E — L — I — N — G.”
This oughtta be good for at least 100 posts.
Let the BS begin !!!
Predicted breakdown:– 100% same-old, same-old. — 80% Ed’s lunatic rantings. — 10% Hate Bush & Co.. — 10% don’t hate Bush & Co.
Why bother.
Hey, Randy. Just go read up on the old stuff. It’s still good.Call us when you think you may understand it.
If no answer, continue beating head against wall until clarity improves.
Iraq.
We need to stop this Israeli-driven expansion and stop bringing our soldiers home in coffins or with limbs blown-off. That number of dead and maimed has reached over 22,000 and increases daily.
Bush gave Ariel Sharon an old map of “Greater Israel” which stretches all the way from the Nile River in Egypt to the Euphrates River in Iraq.
Bush is trying to help Sharon with that expansion and that is why we are in Iraq now. The evangelicals are on board because their religious beliefs are being exploited. Other Christian Churches are divesting investments out of Israel because they know what the secular Zionists are up to.
There was no legitimate reason to pull troops out of Afghanistan without first securing that country and diverting them into Iraq. That’s why all those manufactured lies were bandied about. Establishing a permanent presence in Iraq for Israeli expansion is why we are there. None of the other phony reasons given are true. I think that all of you know that.
Establishing a Greater Israel will cost the United States trillion in taxpayer money and monies borrowed against our Treasury. That will bankrupt this nation. Is that something Americans will knowingly want to do? Of course not and that’s why it’s shrouded in secrecy.
Israel has cost the United States $1.7 trillion since 1973.
On Channel 3 in Israel, Bush threatened to use tactical nuclear weapons against Iran and because Iran supplies 60% of the world oil, the price of crude spiked to over $70 a barrel.
Pakistan threatened to come to Iran’s aid and the price of crude oil dropped somewhat. This is a very dangerous game Bush is playing, by allowing Israel to push him into it.
Bush tells the American People one thing and tells the Israelis another.
The time has come to stop this charade and let the truth be known.
This so-called war in Iraq needs to stop now.
We have needs right here in America.
{ Zionists squeal like pigs at the mere mention of stopping their war…See above }
Bush’s speech on this same subject touched on how the iraqi battalions are growing stronger with more troops.
Then you hear the generals talking how there are less iraqi battalions.
Does the president read the same reports his generals do?
Bush lies. Havn’t you figured that out yet?
Bush reads the same reports, but his rose tinted glasses blurr the truth….There is my part of the 10% Hate Bush&co.
Win The War On Terrorism: Nuke Israel.
As President Bush was warned on Sept. 20, 2001, that he will be indicted for “a decisive surrender” in the war on terror should he fail to attack Iraq, he is also on notice that pressure on Israel is forbidden. For as the neoconservatives have played the anti-Semitic card, they will not hesitate to play the Munich card as well. A year ago, when Bush called on Sharon to pull out of the West Bank, Sharon fired back that he would not let anyone do to Israel what Neville Chamberlain had done to the Czechs. Frank Gaffney of the Center for Security Policy immediately backed up Ariel Sharon:
Our “Wuz” President backed-down.
Ed I knew Bush lies prior to the re-election. I just could not get the word to spead quick enough.Bang! another contubution to the 10%
I have to laugh sometime about this, grown men are not suppost to cry.
Ed is around the world. Read it and weep.
http://www.arabnews.com/?page=17§ion=21&d=3&m=10&y=2005&mode=dynamic§ionlist=no&pix=interact.jpg&category=Interact
Bush stole the second election as well. Don’t think a little thing like an American election will stop Israel or AIPAC. They don’t play by any rules.
I hear whining…..
Funny, the name “Friedemann” is actually Jewish in origin. See
http://www.ancestry.com/search/SurnamePage.aspx?html=b&ln=Friedemann&sourcecode=13304
Ed is behaving like that little corporal Schickelgruber who was also appalled by his Jewish ancestry..what did he change his name to again???? Ah, that’s right…Hitler.
Sharon is having Bush bomb entire villages in Iraq to score points on Iraqi dead. Bush claims that they’re all terrorists, even the children.
Bomb them all and let god sort it out