I declare November 22, 2008 to be "Victory in Iraq Day." (Hereafter known as "VI Day.")
By every measure, The United States and coalition forces have conclusively defeated all enemies in Iraq, pacified the country, deposed the previous regime, successfully helped to establish a new functioning democratic goverment, and suppressed any lingering insurgencies. The war has come to an end. And we won.
What more indication do you need? An announcement from the outgoing Bush administration? It's not gonna happen. An annoucement from the incoming Obama administration? That's really not gonna happen. A declaration of victory by the media? Please. Don't make me laugh. A concession of surrender by what few remaining insurgents remain in hiding? Forget about it.
The moment has come to acknowledge the obvious. To overtly declare a fact that has already been true for quite some time now. Let me repeat:
WE WON THE WAR IN IRAQ
And since there will never be a ticker-tape parade down Fifth Avenue in New York for our troops, it's up to us, the people, to arrange a virtual ticker-tape parade. An online victory celebration.
Saturday, November 22, 2008 is the day of that celebration: Victory in Iraq Day.
What do you need to do to participate? Simple. Just make a post on your blog on Saturday, November 22, announcing that the war is over, and declaring that day to be Victory in Iraq Day. That's it.
If you want to write a short post (or a long essay) analyzing the nature of our victory or cheering the troops for a job well done, great; but if you just want to make a simple announcement of the victory, that's fine as well. Anything will do. Just come and join the celebration to mark the day.
Keep reading below to find: evidence that the war is over (for the doubters); an historical discussion of previous postwar occupations and guerrilla violence; a list of blogs which have already joined the VI Day movement; free banners and graphics for you to download and put on your blog, if you so choose; and an invitation to submit your own "victory graphics" for posting here.
If you would like to comment on VI Day, you can do so here.
Observations and statistics agree: The fighting has ceased, the war is over
I have felt for many months that we had already won the war, but I was spurred to action by this report from Michael Yon:
"THE WAR IS OVER AND WE WON:" Michael Yon just phoned from Baghdad, and reports that things are much better than he had expected, and he had expected things to be good. "There's nothing going on. I'm with the 10th Mountain Division, and about half of the guys I'm with haven't fired their weapons on this tour and they've been here eight months. And the place we're at, South Baghdad, used to be one of the worst places in Iraq. And now there's nothing going on. I've been walking my feet off and haven't seen anything."
125 Shot Dead In Chicago Over Summer
Total Is About Double The U.S. Troop Death Toll In Iraq
CHICAGO (CBS) -- An estimated 125 people were shot and killed over the summer. That's nearly double the number of U.S. soldiers killed in Iraq over the same time period.
What more need be said? Whatever lingering violence still exists is Iraq is now nothing more than a series of minor disconnected terrorist attacks, which have become completely ineffectual in changing the hearts and minds of the populace, or re-igniting another civil war.
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I heard on some radio blab show that more US troops were killed in Iraq last month in traffic accidents than enemy "action".
I think the Iraqis, who are basically Babylonians and Assyrians, thought of AQ's tactics as cowardly and shameful. AQ over played their hand, the US military was smart enough to recognize it and play to that audience.
As a VN vet, I cogitate on what would have happened in VN had the US military been more intellectually agile. The VC were every bit as brutal in their tactics as AQ and many of the populace were weary of the carnage and the wanton violence.
I rejoice in the fact that we as a free society were able to recognize the truth of what was happening in Iraq and not fall prey to the crap journalism of the MSM who were playing the VN playbook. We knew we were doing the right thing and we knew we would win given time. The press finally gave up trying to tar us as thugs and criminals and just let the Iraq campaign fall of the front page, their story wasn't playing in Peoria or anywhere. Once it fell from the front page, the Donks quit pandering to the falsity and the military could be creative and use all the tools of counterinsurgency, including psyops, community action and small unit tactics/special action teams.
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Bing West also said the war is over. His book "the strongest tribe" is a very good read as are all his books.
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As the saying goes [X-FILES], I WANT TO BELIEVE!
Unfortunately, knowing my fellow Afghan War cohort Osama Bin Laden, etal. as I do [+ other] leads me to believe otherwise. CHECK ME AGAIN AFTER 2010 NLT 2012, ESPEC IFF IRAN FAILS TO CONDUCT A SUCCESSFUL INDIGENOUS NUKULAR BOMB TEST(S).
The Iranian news agency Mehr reports that American university presidents visiting Iran criticized the U.S. government's restrictions on Iranian students.
The criticism came during a meeting between the American academicians and Iran's science minister.
Following is a list of the university presidents, as it appeared on the Mehr website:
1-Prof. Robert M. Berdahl - president of the Association of American Universities
2-Prof. David J. Skorton - president of Cornell University
3- Prof. David. W. Leeborn - president of Rice University
4-Prof. J. Bernard.Machen - president of Florida University
5-Prof. C. D. Mote - president of Maryland University
6-Prof. Larry Vanderhoef - president of California University Davis
7-Prof. Jared L. Cohon - president of Carnegie Mellon University.
#2
Posting the latest job openings at six Universities and the Assoc of American Universities is a great way to help the country out of this financial slump... these positions are open aren't they? Shouldn't they be?
#3
it's all about the coin - they can charge a bunch for an Iranian student, and don't give a f*ck about that country's policies, who the students might be, or what they might be doing here in their spare time. Hint: any student allowed by the Iranian gov't to travel and study here is an agent of the regime
F*cking traitorous bastards
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11/17/2008 21:43 Comments ||
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With a fifth column like this operating in the U.S., it is inevitable that at some point it's going to come to guns. If you're not ready, you would be awfully wise to start preparing.
1. The manner of the current investigation by the Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) of the Mumbai Police into an explosion at Malegaon in Maharashtra on September 30,2008, which mainly targeted and killed some local Muslims should be a matter of concern to all right-thinking Indians.
2. Large sections of the Muslims,the anti-Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) political class and the so-called secular elements in the Hindu community, which lose no opportunity to demonise the Hindu nationalists and the BJP in order to win the applause of the minorities and project themselves as liberals, have used the investigation to divert attention away from the hundreds of innocent civilians killed by the jihadi terrorists, many of them trained and assisted by the intelligence agencies of Pakistan and Bangladesh and inspired by the pan-Islamic ideology of Al Qaeda and its International Islamic Front (IIF).
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explosion at Malegaon in Maharashtra on September 30,2008, which mainly targeted and killed some local Muslims
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Funny how the pattern is so similar to what is experienced in western Europe (and in the USA, too) : don't pay attention to the threat posed by restive, growing minorities in terms of crime, unrest, social pressure, identity crisis and even terror,... but pay undue attention to those denouncing those threats, as they are "racists", "radicals", "xenophobical", "anti-republican",...
I'd say that western gvts are so much more preoccupied by the native population having a backlash than by any troubles from migrants.
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Of course, note I'm not an apologizer for the hindu terrorism, this is something that should not be condoned, especially more since it targets Christians just as easily in pogroms, but India DO have a serious problem on its hands, regarding its muslim minority, and they way this said problem is NOT handled, or worse, mishandled by demagogists and crooked bossist pols. Terror is definitvely not the answer, as it actually provides ammo for the peopel responsible for this problem, though, and worst of all, it accomplishes nothing.
#4
Unlike Western Europe and the US the Hindu don't have a recent history of Nazi atrocities. Instead they have centuries of Mogul occupiers to think about. I imagine the line is a fine one before something really bad happens to the Muslims in India. I also think Al Queda may attempt to push that line because Muslims coexisting is not in their long term interests.
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WAR OUTSIDE IRAQ> One reason Radical Islam and aligned are jihadin' all thru Central, East, and South Asia is that the locals are more familiar + geographically closer than lands far away. Similar rationales for many of the anti-Muslim/Islamist Hindu Militants - DESPITE RECOGNIZING THE REAL ISLAMIST OVERT THREAT TO "NORMAL" OR TRADITIONAL ASIAN ORDER, THE HINDUS, ETC. FEAR MORE A POTENT RETURN OF ANGLO-WESTERN INFLUENCE AND DOMINATION IN DOMESTIC AFFAIRS [read, HINDU-specific domin of Indian Governance + National Culture, etc.].
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WORLD MIL FORUM > INDIA'S FEAR: CHINA'S ATTEMPT TO DAM THE BRAHMAPUTRA RIVER SYSTEM WILL LEAD TO WAR [Sino-Indian Water War]; + US EVALUATION OF HISTORICAL AND FUTURE SINO-INDIAN CONFLICT [Region-wide Islamist Pressures; Confrontation and War for Resources-Water/National Development].
#4
Tough love they want is it? Well if Obama brings Canadian activist journalist Naomi Klein into his administration, they'll be getting some.
"I think I'm lucky because I got to witness a significant shift, something that changed, and I wanted to document that shift. And it seemed very, very clear to me that if there was going to be a future for the left it would have to be an anti-corporate movement."
Klein.
#6
I'm somewhat surprised that during the last war with Hezbollah that Israel didn't really clean house knowing that it was only a matter of time before the pro-israel foreign policy of America was challenged.
Israel should have gone into Syria and taken out the regime and handed over power to the Kurds and pulled out. I suspect the Kurds would learn to be brutal very fast and Kurds from neighboring nations might migrate into Syria to be part of a ruling power for a change. The entire dynamic to the North of Israel would have changed.
Now they'll have to listen to pontification and funding threats.
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The local Jewish rag claims it was 78%, based on exit polls, DoDo. In September the American Jewish Committee poll set it at 57% for Obama with 13% undecided. Truly, I do not understand people.
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ION BAMELOT, WORLD MIL FORUM [paraph = GOOGLE Chinglish translation] > INDIA FAVORS LIMITED/SHORT-TERM US INFLUENCE AND MIL PRESENCE IN AFGHANISTAN, PAKISTAN [Indian NW Corridor]; + AFTER OBAMA'S WIN, WHITE BACKLASH FESTERS IN THE US. Presence of increasingly PRO-VIOLENCE/ANARCHIST elements = sub-groups-factions inside a mostly benign US WHITE NATIONALIST MOVEMENT. SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER claims over 200-plus HATE INCIDENTS linked to Dem Barack Obama's electoral victory over GOP'er John Mccain - Obama's victory also believed or anticipated by Perts to be used as tool for nationwide recruiting of new members for same.; + US SCHOOLCHILDREN IN VARIOUS SOUTHERN AND MIDWEST US STATES ARE SINGING OBAMA ASSASSINATION, DEATH SONGS ON SCHOOL BUSES AND SCHOOLS.
Also, OBAMA INTERVIEW ON "60 MINUTES" > SAVING THE US ECONOMY IS MOE IMPORTANT THAN CONTROLLING THE DEFICIT/HEAVY US GOVERNMENT-LED INVESTMENT AND FISCAL SPENDING TO CONTINUE.
Uh, uh, the only thing better than a OWG-NWO Amerika wid a US$13.0Trilyuhn GDP and up to US$50.0Trilyuhn in International Debts, IS A OWG-NWO AMERIKA US$13.0TRILYUHN GDP WID A US$80-100.0TRILYUHN IN INTERNAT DEBTS???
#3
We required the steel industry and the airlines industry to restructure. The auto industry shouldn't be any different.
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Problem is the Dems won't let the companies restructure the "real problem" and ditch the UAW contracts. Foreign manufacturers build wonderful cars profitably in their US NON_UNION plants. No amount of money or corporate restructuring can erase the competitive disadvantage posed by the UAW.
Heard talk in Fox this morning that they may not get this at this time - but they will in February when the donks control everything. Of course by then the MSM would have fanned it into a national crisis unless they _are_ bailed out.
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It is the UAW's demands that have not kept them competitive & at the crux of their debt. They say they need the bailout $$$ from the average taxpayers who earn $15 an hour to pay health benefits to retirees who have been making $75 an hour plus the hefty benefit packages. Accountability and transparency will not be forthcoming, either, I suspect.
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It is the UAW's demands that have not kept them competitive & at the crux of their debt. They say they need the bailout $$$ from the average taxpayers who earn $15 an hour to pay health benefits to retirees who have been making $75 an hour plus the hefty benefit packages. Accountability and transparency will not be forthcoming, either, I suspect.
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