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2005-09-14 Iraq-Jordan

Newsweak sez measuring insurgency is a deadly guessing game

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Posted by Dan Darling 2005-09-14 00:35|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 NEWSWEEK has learned that the document, which remains classified,

NEWSWEEK has just committed a crime, no?

Posted by Robert Crawford">Robert Crawford 2005-09-14 08:10|| http://www.kloognome.com/]">[http://www.kloognome.com/] 2005-09-14 08:10|| Front Page Top

#2 No. Treason is no longer a crime. Or, at least, no one has been charged in some 50 years.

Posted by Jackal">Jackal 2005-09-14 09:06|| home.earthlink.net/~sleepyjackal/index.html]">[home.earthlink.net/~sleepyjackal/index.html] 2005-09-14 09:06|| Front Page Top

#3 The war is basically won. Its just indian country now and the Iraqis [21st century Apache Scouts] are going to start handling most of it. Or as Rantburg's own Barbara Skolaut's comment posted at Instapundit notes of yesterday's White House press conference "I agree with Mr. Flynn, but his sentence is not complete. It should read, 'Iraq must be a smashing success - and it's obviously driving the press absolutely crazy - when Bush can hold a presser with Talabani and field only Louisiana disaster relief questions.'"

Posted by Elmeamp Spomoque1135 2005-09-14 09:07|| 2005-09-14 09:07|| Front Page Top

#4 I actually found this link near the top of the Counterterrorism blog and didn't remember reading it before so I posted it here,

Posted by Dan Darling">Dan Darling 2005-09-14 10:13|| http://www.regnumcrucis.blogspot.com]">[http://www.regnumcrucis.blogspot.com] 2005-09-14 10:13|| Front Page Top

#5 OK, just checking.

Posted by Steve">Steve 2005-09-14 10:26|| 2005-09-14 10:26|| Front Page Top

#6 May, September- the date doesn't matter. Newsweek will still be printing the same old song-and-dance with a few words changed come November.

Posted by Pappy 2005-09-14 10:53|| 2005-09-14 10:53|| Front Page Top

#7 May, September- the date doesn't matter.

It really doesn't. We have all seen this movie before. It's the history of the American West and the plot of most Clint Eastwood westerns: The Bad Guys take over a village/town/territory and brutalize the inhabitants. Any resistance is crushed with terror, violence and death.

Eventually, Clint/The Texas Rangers/The Marines show up and start kicking ass. The locals gain hope realizing maybe they can win and start fighting back, too. The Bad Guys end up dead or in jail. Everyone lives happily ever after. The credits roll as Clint, the Rangers and the Marines ride off into the sunset.

How do we know this is the current scenario? Because the Iraqis keep lining up to join their military in spite of IED attacks on recruiting centers and because they are starting to rat out the terrs. These things only happen because the Iraqis have hope and some outside muscle on their side.

Of course, from the media point of view, it's a VietNam-esque quagmire. Quackmire! Quackmire! Newsweak should spend more time at the movies.

Posted by SteveS 2005-09-14 12:23|| 2005-09-14 12:23|| Front Page Top

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