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| Gambling on Defeat |
| 2007-02-18 |
| The 229 Democrats and 17 Republicans who voted in the House Friday for a nonbinding disapproval of the troop surge in Baghdad, designed and proposed by General Petraeus, think they are pretty smart. Yet even as they were taking a risky gamble that the Coalition forces already on the move into Baghdad in force will certainly fail, many of the first escalation reports in from Baghdad (and in Anbar) have been good signs. The Iraqi army is moving up in force, as promised, and the Americans were already arriving just behind them. According to the Iraqi army, the numbers of bombings and killings in the city has fallen by 89 percent. Meanwhile, the senior leaders in the Mahdi army in Sadr City — no doubt encouraging their followers to go to their deaths for Allah — have apparently heeded warnings to abandon ship. Slinking away like embarrassed rats, they have already, by some reports, disappeared from view. In Anbar Province, a dozen tribal leaders have signed up with the American Marines to provide small armies of police and rapid-reaction forces, angry enough to drive al Qaeda murderers out of their midst (al Qaeda assassinations have hit too close to home for many of them)... |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #5 "a "WAITING GAME" Hudna. The correct term is.....hudna. |
| Posted by: no mo uro 2007-02-18 18:57 |
| #4 Threason never doth prosper, for what reason? If it doth prosper, none dares call't treason. |
| Posted by: gromgoru 2007-02-18 17:56 |
| #3 The media has been granted a pass on one misrepresentation in particular, IMHO - that the U.S. is losing a "war" in Iraq. We actually won the armed conflict against a legitimate army in weeks, a fact which ran entirely contrary to the MSM's dire predictions about heavy U.S. troop casualaties against Saddam's military. What we actually have there is a messy political evolution - a somewhat successful exercise in nation-building with crosswinds of insurgency present (Sunni former Baathists, Shiite death squads, al-Qaeda style elements and some foreign fighters mixed in). These elements are responsible for a great deal of carnage and terror but no political gains for their side whatsoever other than in trying to convince Americans through their corresponding propaganda war that Iraq is "another Vietnam". |
| Posted by: Sic_Semper_Tyrannus 2007-02-18 17:52 |
| #2 Gambling on defeat...otherwise known as TREASON. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2007-02-18 16:18 |
| #1 O'REILLY Show > DINESH D'SOUZA author of "The Enemy at Home" > D'Souza's so-called "CULTURAL LEFT" [= O'Reilly's FAR LEFT] wants to save, rejuvenate, and PERMANENTLY entrench the Left's agenda in America, as represented in the Democrat Party, whose Leftist "purity" or merits D'Souza believes the US Left no longer believes in as their is an internal war going on within Dems for the soul of Leftism [including SOCIALISM]in America. * FOX > WSJ Perts > CLINTONISM/CLINTONIAN POLICY = summed up as pol HEDGING, and Hillary's biggest prob is that many in the Democrats no longer trust her to take a true-blue. moral = ethicist stand on anything. IOW, HILLARY HAS TO REGAIN THE TRUST OF MANY DEMS TO WIN IN 2008. ALso, MONEYTALK Radio SHow > Host Bob > "believes that Radical Islam has been shown that Amer, or at least Washington DC, is a divided country and that Amer does not have the will = unity to prevail. Hence WOT > Radical islam > now a "WAITING GAME" against Dubya-USA, WAITING FOR THE DEMS TO STOP DUBYA NOW; OR FOR A NEW POTUS IN 2009 TO INDUCE COMPLETE WITHDRAWAL FROM IRAQ & ME. DUBYA'S POL OPPOSITION IS MORE INTERESTED IN WINNING THE WH, WINNING AN ELECTION OR DOMESTIC AGENDAS THAN WINNING A WAR AGAINST AN ENEMY(S) THAT WOULD DESTROY AMERICA. IOW, MONEYTALK > Radical Islam > Radics have won, Amer has lost, Radics are waiting for the Dems or the anti-Dubya NPE to PC withdraw US milfors and PC affirm the victory of Radical Islam. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2007-02-18 01:59 |