The Coalition of the Willing isn’t what it used to be: It’s down from 37 to 27 countries. And despite efforts by U.S. and Iraqi leaders to stop the ranks from thinning, the nations planning or considering whole or partial troop withdrawals next year include Japan, Poland, South Korea, Italy, Ukraine, Bulgaria, Australia, Great Britain and — let’s be honest — the United States. The vast majority of the 177,000 foreign troops are Americans and Britons, but the trend suggests the mission is winding down, whether President Bush wants to acknowledge it or not and whether the Iraqi troops are ready or not.
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We need to write biger checks for the “Coalition of the Billing”
Ben,Ooh, good one!
Iraqi freedom equals Haliburton oil. We need Iraqi freedom! If we dig enough wells we find those WMD! We need to prove that Plume is a commy double agent and she lied!
Rage
To get out of Israel’s war, we need to take our country back.
To stop the flow of our money to trouble-making Israel we have to flush-out the sold-out members of congress. And stop dual citizenship, which allow them voting their “boys” into our congress. We sure can’t vote in their country. The second link is their billing to our sold-out members:
Notice how they put “Their Bush” on display.
Their headline of pictures:”Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, George W. Bush, Hillary Clintion and the leadership of Congress.”
Watch the Video and tell me Bush and Rice haven’t sold their souls and the United States down the drain.
http://www.aipac.org/
http://www.aipac.org/PC2006/
The White House is threatening to pull foriegn aid from those counties who pull their troops out of Israel’s war.
In other words: The noeconservatives { Nazis } are using our money to buy other country’s soldiers, while pretending to “stay the course”
Do you approve of that?
This so-called “war” was a sham right from the start and nothing has changed, including the administrations lies about “thinking about leaving”
They are, literally, buying time.
Karl Rove is seeing to it.
In order to understand Karl’s trickery, you must first understand that the “terrorism” is a something done by a crazy person for no reason.
Such is not the case of 9/11, as that was Arab rage about the slaughter of Palestinians.
The “not so touted” 9/11 Report says exactly that, but most American are unaware of that Report. The Zionist controlled MSM keeps emphasizing the tragedy, but not the actual cause. Just as little mention is made of what really happened in Fallujah. The massacre of Fallujah is always touted as a Insurgency stronghold, rather than a town full of people. Wichita could be a “stronghold of fighters” if an enemy was attacking, and sold that way by the enemy’s propaganda machine, if you were all killed
RD
The men in the smoke-filled back rooms of the White House have an agenda and everything is going as planned. Actually better than expected, as the resistance doesn’t need to be prodded.
And when the time comes to frighten America again, they’ll blow-up something here in the United States again. And make you give-up even more of your freedoms and money and constitutional guarantees.
They know exactly what they’re doing and they’re counting on you not finding-out.
If you’ll take the time to notice, they sure hate my guts. And they’ll turn-up the heat on me as more of you wake-up. And I’ll keep turning-up the heat on them until their goose is cooked.
My only regret: I wish they were turkeys. I can’t stand goose-meat. It smells like…well, you know.
Actually, it smells like …….victory.
OK, gang, we’ve got this Karl Rove fellar treed. Now whose going up thar and git em?
The dogs need to git on back and be fed.
There’s a full moon out tonight, so we can’t just leave em’ up thar.
Actually, Ed, it’s a new moon. Maybe Karl’s afraid of the dark? ::evil grin:: Put the nightscopes on those rifles, boys.
“Sharon said the West has the military capabilities to handle Iran, but “before anyone decides on a military step….”
Ariel Sharon is hinting, though indirectly, about having the United States make a nuclear strike on Iran.Sharon made big trouble for having Bush make the last threat, which drove crude oil to 70 dollars a barrel { 3 dollar gasoline }.
If we had a President, instead of Karl Rove’s puppet, he’d be busy disarming Israel’s nuclear stockpile of nuclear weapons { which was stolen from the United States } and put that dangerous country back into its box.
Sharon has been told to shut-up about Iran, but his arrogance is bleeding through again. The world rates Israel as the most dangerous threat to world peace, partly due to Bush being too stupid to understand the nature of Israeli aggression, and inability to maintain control of that rogue State.
NYT Headline
“Profusion of Rebel Groups Helps Them Survive in Iraq”
Karl Rove’s lie is beginning to surface in the New York Times….Finally
I’ve been trying to explain what they are finally beginning to grasp: Al Qaeda is not an organization, but rather an “Idea.” Not unlike the “idea” which drove the American revolution…..The Idea of Freedom.
Yes, Arabs want the United States to stop being “terrorists” and financing “terrorism” is the form of Israel. And they will never stop fighting those “terrorist” invaders of Palestine or Iraq.
Karl Rove can dance his little puppet Bush until they both become dizzy, Al Qaeda can not be defeated, any more than the “Minute Men” could be defeated.
The American People have a right to know that their sons and daughters are being sacrificed to expand Israeli greed, nothing more, nothing less. It’s about time or pasted due telling them.
Read from the New York Times:
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/02/international/middleeast/02insurgency.html?th=&adxnnl=1&emc=th&adxnnlx=1133520669-ieeWYFaW1GaK332QJ/GDpQ
Ten more Marines dead. How many more to you want Karl Rove, you murdering thug.
http://www.cnn.com/
But retired Lt. Gen. William Odom, one-time director of the National Security Agency, recently wrote for NiemanWatchdog.org, a website of the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard, that “all the terrible things that the Bush administration predicted would happen if we pulled out our troops too soon are already happening.” He also believes the only way for the US to bring democracy to Iraq and the East is for US troops to leave now, not later.
http://www.csmonitor.com/2005/1202/dailyUpdate.html
From Left to Right War Critics Abound
“With a substantial majority of the population supporting a withdrawal of US troops from Iraq, the Bush administration and its Democratic allies have joined forces in an attempt to intimidate the American people into accepting a protracted and bloody colonial war.”
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“The bipartisan campaign in support of the war was summed up by back-to-back statements from Senator Joseph Lieberman (Democrat of Connecticut) and President Bush, both of them proclaiming a “strategy for victory” in Iraq.
Lieberman’s comments appeared in the Wall Street Journal Tuesday, while Bush delivered his in a speech to a captive audience of Naval Academy midshipmen the following day. Both made claims of success for US policy that are wildly at odds with the grim realities in Iraq.”
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/dec2005/bush-d01.shtml
10 Marines killed near FallujahFull Story
http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/12/02/iraq.main/index.html
When an Israeli speaks………
“Costly Withdrawal Is the Price To Be Paid for a Foolish War”By Martin van Creveld
Martin van Creveld, a professor of military history at the Hebrew University, is author of “Transformation of War” (Free Press, 1991). He is the only non-American author on the U.S. Army’s required reading list for officers.
http://www.forward.com/articles/6936