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2004-12-15 Africa: North

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Posted by Dan Darling 2004-12-15 3:41:59 AM|| || Front Page|| [11140 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 If the US has some soldiers to spare, why do not they send them to Iraq to control the chaos there?

Posted by Goher 2004-12-15 6:24:37 AM|| 2004-12-15 6:24:37 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 That's not chaos, that's post-invasion mopping up. Go read the Iraqi bloggers to find out what's really going on, rather than demonstrate your ignorance.

Posted by trailing wife 2004-12-15 7:04:59 AM|| 2004-12-15 7:04:59 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 Aside from that, Goher, they're not US troops, they're US trained troops. And just because we're in Iraq doesn't mean we need to suck our resources out of the rest of the world and put them all in Iraq. Come back when you can read and think.

Posted by Tom 2004-12-15 8:22:12 AM|| 2004-12-15 8:22:12 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 ...they're not US troops, they're US trained troops.

Yeah. What's up with the misleading title, Dan? The Globe's headline was correct.

Posted by Angie Schultz 2004-12-15 10:34:42 AM|| [http://darkblogules.blogspot.com] 2004-12-15 10:34:42 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 Angie is being sarcastic?
USA trains folks all over the place...
the concept (us-trained = american) does not really make sense.. though I kinda wish it was that easy to instill our values :-p

Posted by Dcreeper 2004-12-15 12:23:38 PM|| 2004-12-15 12:23:38 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 No, Dcreeper, the title originally read "US troops patrolling the Sahara". That would have been Biggish News to me. Then I read the article and found that they were only US-trained troops, which for me is Not News, though others might find it interesting. Title's been fixed now.

Posted by Angie Schultz 2004-12-15 1:41:09 PM|| [http://darkblogules.blogspot.com] 2004-12-15 1:41:09 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 only chaos if you consider the sunni areas being iraq in total - the rest of the country (80%) is progressing along.. Goher - need to stop taking the msm line as gospel...

Posted by Dan 2004-12-15 1:48:03 PM|| 2004-12-15 1:48:03 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 TW - did you actually read the last couple of posts on Healing Iraq?

the country may not be in chaos (as Dan said, the Shia and Kurd areas are ok) but Baghdad is seriously snafued, or at least the part that Healing Iraq lives in.

Posted by Liberalhawk 2004-12-15 5:01:32 PM|| 2004-12-15 5:01:32 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 Actually, I haven't LH, but that's the one Fred has a link to. Still, its got to be more accurate than anything Mr. Goher is getting his news from, and the blogger has links to many of the other Iraqi sites. My latest news comes from a Kurdish aquaintance -- Saturday evening over dinner we discussed what his family back home has been saying recently. (His brother is so excited by the opportunities that he is becoming a collector of cars, his sister enjoys not fearing the late night knock on the door, but worries about terrorists who occasionally toss a grenade into the market where she shops. Both are eager to vote in January, and know young men who've joined the Iraqi police or National Guard.)

Posted by trailing wife 2004-12-15 6:44:49 PM|| 2004-12-15 6:44:49 PM|| Front Page Top

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