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2006-11-30 Iraq

ABC Discovers Iranian Weapons Supply Militia in Iraq

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Posted by eLarson 2006-11-30 15:23|| || Front Page|| [5 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Somehow the surprise-o-meter got left off.

Posted by eLarson 2006-11-30 15:27|| http://larsonian.blogspot.com]">[http://larsonian.blogspot.com] 2006-11-30 15:27|| Front Page Top

#2 Does this mean we can finally bomb these suckers? No? I guessed not.

Posted by Excalibur 2006-11-30 15:37|| 2006-11-30 15:37|| Front Page Top

#3 And I bet you will never hear a peep about this story from the US wire services.

Posted by crosspatch">crosspatch 2006-11-30 15:43|| http://crufty.blogspot.com]">[http://crufty.blogspot.com] 2006-11-30 15:43|| Front Page Top

#4 And in other news, the sun rises in the east, water is wet, and Francisco Franco is still dead.

Posted by Dreadnought 2006-11-30 15:59|| 2006-11-30 15:59|| Front Page Top

#5 As far as I'm concerned this puts Bush in the same category as jimmuh carter. Pathetic.

Posted by Ebbang Uluque6305 2006-11-30 16:19|| 2006-11-30 16:19|| Front Page Top

#6 "This suggests, say the sources, that the material is going directly from Iranian factories to Shia militias, rather than taking a roundabout path through the black market. "There is no way this could be done without (Iranian) government approval," says a senior official."

WTF? Not saying it wouldn't have been done with governmental approval, but what a moronic statement. The capacity for corruption and stealth is stupidly not acknowledged.

It has seemed lately that ABC, as a mainstream news provider, is little closer to the camp of sanity than NBC and CBS show themselves to be. That a mainstream outlet is telling this story at all differentiates it.

Posted by Jules 2006-11-30 17:18|| 2006-11-30 17:18|| Front Page Top

#7 Argh, that s/h/b "a little closer".

Posted by Jules 2006-11-30 17:20|| 2006-11-30 17:20|| Front Page Top

#8 As far as I'm concerned this puts Bush in the same category as jimmuh carter. Pathetic.

Awesome work EU6305!
Getting ready to go to work for Rum Pat Rum 2008?

Posted by Shipman 2006-11-30 17:39|| 2006-11-30 17:39|| Front Page Top

#9 Hurry, EU6305 (or 6, whatever it takes), all the Howard NeoBeales of the Apocalypse are lining up.

Posted by .com 2006-11-30 17:43|| 2006-11-30 17:43|| Front Page Top

#10

There you go.

Posted by gorb 2006-11-30 17:55|| 2006-11-30 17:55|| Front Page Top

#11 Lawzy, lawzy, the collective in-take of breath, immediately followed by some sort of inane bullshit, if Bush does go after the Mad Mullahs will be something to see. I predict a vacuum lasting about 30 secs after the attack ends, followed by 2-3 weeks of breast-beating and pud-pulling about how they figgered it would happen all along. Mixed in, starting about 36 hrs after the last JDAM waxes a terminal complex, will come the bitching cuz it didn't happen per their schedule and / or that it wasn't thorough enough. Should be quite a purple-letter day.

Posted by .com 2006-11-30 18:06|| 2006-11-30 18:06|| Front Page Top

#12 Don't know what I'll do in 2008. The only thing that got me to the polls in 2004 was the fear that Theresa Heinz Kerry might have ended up on the evening news every night for the next four years. Haven't been so disillushioned in years. I don't wanna sound like a war monger. I'm just afraid of what will happen if nobody ever stops the Iranians. I don't care about the oil. I just don't want any more nukes going off and I don't want to have to bow to mecca. Who is Rum Pat Rum anyway? Or Howard neoBeales?

Posted by Ebbang Uluque6305 2006-11-30 18:13|| 2006-11-30 18:13|| Front Page Top

#13 Impossible. It's a civil war. Iran and Syria can't be involved in formenting the violence.

Posted by Danking70 2006-11-30 18:19|| 2006-11-30 18:19|| Front Page Top

#14 Ah, now you're making sense. Not fair. Lol.

We're all in the same boat. I don't expect there will be nukes tossed around, not unless everything goes titzup. China, down the road, is where that notion might become real.

I'll wager that was Ship's way of saying Run Pat (Buchanan) Run 2008. Isolationism is an idiot's play in this world. Pat's about 100 years too late.

The Howard NeoBeales was in reference to a post I made not long ago. You might say I'm getting tired of the ankle-biting fuckwits who blame everything on Bush. Yep. I am.

Bush is a whole 'nuther person. He believes what he believes, thinks what he thinks.

There's a pretty good chance that there are people you know, maybe even like, who are not your clone. Sis, Mom, Dad, Bubba - we all have folks who we, otherwise, love or like - who are to the Left of Marx. That's life.

Bush has done a lot. He has fumbled a lot. Sounds almost normal. Imagine that, huh: another guy, a guy with a different POV, doing what he thinks is right. That he's not a clone seems to come as a surprise to so many. Dunno why. I've never had one, though Ship might come close when he's on his meds. So Bush not meeting my schedule or doing everything I want when I fucking want it shouldn't come as a surprise.

Posted by .com 2006-11-30 18:28|| 2006-11-30 18:28|| Front Page Top

#15 Well this is the camels nose under the tent. Yes, I am surprised that it was reported at all, but it could be the lever the president needs.

I would like it if he called a press conference tomorrow to point out the obvious fact that the Iranian government is actively causing the deaths of American soldiers and actively working against our interests in destabilizing Iraq.

I would also like him to say that if this activity does not cease immediately then Iranian targets will be hit by the US Military as a clear defense response.

It won't happen, of course, but that is what I would like and what I believe is the appropriate course of action.

Posted by remoteman 2006-11-30 18:38|| 2006-11-30 18:38|| Front Page Top

#16 I don't expect Bush to be my clone.

But right now it looks like he is showing weakness in the face of the mad mullahs just like Carter did. Granted, idiots like Kennedy and Murtha haven't made it any easier. But Bush has two years to do something about these bastards and then he's going to down as the worst president since Carter and that's pretty bad.

Posted by Ebbang Uluque6305 2006-11-30 19:27|| 2006-11-30 19:27|| Front Page Top

#17 Hmmm. 200K US troops on the ground in Islamic lands killing Bad Guys and he's another Carter?

Are you fucking serious?

Sorry, you're back to sounding like a fucking idjit.

Posted by .com 2006-11-30 19:30|| 2006-11-30 19:30|| Front Page Top

#18 #2 Does this mean we can finally bomb these suckers? No? I guessed not.
Posted by Excalibur 2006-11-30 15:37

No. You're absolutely right. We're not going to do jack. Put Olmert in White House and you'll get the same dithering.

Posted by Lancasters Over Dresden 2006-11-30 20:01|| http://www.michaelcalderonscall.com]">[http://www.michaelcalderonscall.com] 2006-11-30 20:01|| Front Page Top

#19 Got any stock picks, horses, etc?

Posted by .com 2006-11-30 20:04|| 2006-11-30 20:04|| Front Page Top

#20 This means that Iraq isn't in a Civil War - its (and us) are in a de-facto war with Iran.

Posted by CrazyFool 2006-11-30 20:27|| 2006-11-30 20:27|| Front Page Top

#21 End of the month, which can only mean the armchair-generals and the foreign-policy-ekspurts have been let out of their halfway-houses, and can't get into LGF...

Posted by Pappy 2006-11-30 20:37|| 2006-11-30 20:37|| Front Page Top

#22 "Granted, idiots like Kennedy and Murtha haven't made it any easier."

And people like you, who can't bring themselves to grant him any more than that, aren't making it any easier, either.

The entire Democratic Party, in a cheap, cynical bid for political gain, has dedicated itself to interfering with the war in every way conceivable since the very day it began, up to and including threats of impeachment.

Nearly every commercial media outlet in print, broadcast, and cable has devoted every last ounce of effort for five solid years to undermining public confidence in both the purpose of this war and the competence with which our military is waging it. They have denigrated every success we've had. They have exaggerated every setback. They have trumpeted one goddamn bogus "scandal" after another to confuse and demoralize the public, to the point where most people anymore don't have the slightest fucking idea what the hell we're fighting for.

Not only that, Bush has had virtually the entire international political establishment set against him since the very beginning as well.

And all you can grant him is that all these things "haven't made it any easier"?????

Go screw yourself.

Posted by Dave D.">Dave D. 2006-11-30 20:48|| 2006-11-30 20:48|| Front Page Top

#23 This means that Iraq isn't in a Civil War - its (and us) are in a de-facto war with Iran.

That is the most succinct observation in this thread yet. Let's hope our government acts upon this fact.

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2006-11-30 20:59|| 2006-11-30 20:59|| Front Page Top

#24 Dave, your third paragraph is one clue to what's wrong with Bush. He didn't hit back, and he still doesn't hit back. He's a good man and all that, but this is war and we need a prick. A no nonsense bastard who points the finger of censure at the leftist macaca. Instead, we have a lame duck.
Wake me when our leaders are serious.

Posted by wxjames 2006-11-30 21:04|| 2006-11-30 21:04|| Front Page Top

#25 Got any stock picks, horses, etc?

Number two in the seventh, at Santa Anita, Saturday.

Posted by Mick Dundee 2006-11-30 22:40|| 2006-11-30 22:40|| Front Page Top

#26 Will a bitch do, wxj?

Brilliant, Mick.

Posted by .com 2006-11-30 22:52|| 2006-11-30 22:52|| Front Page Top

#27 All together now, wid feeling(s)> SAY IT TAINT SO!

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