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2006-12-29 Iraq

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Posted by .com 2006-12-29 08:49|| || Front Page|| [4 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 American leadership does not want to win.

Posted by ed 2006-12-29 09:06|| 2006-12-29 09:06|| Front Page Top

#2 I don't think it's just us...

A spokesman for Iraqi President Jalal Talabani said Monday that the two detained Iranians were in the country at his invitation.

I'm really starting to think these people aren't worth it.

Posted by tu3031 2006-12-29 09:24|| 2006-12-29 09:24|| Front Page Top

#3 They're not.

Posted by ed 2006-12-29 09:29|| 2006-12-29 09:29|| Front Page Top

#4 "indications and evidence that all of the people rounded up, including the two Iranians, are involved in the transfer of IED technologies from Iran to Iraq."

Diplomats my aching arss. Word on the street here is there was little doubt about their intentions. Caught red handed. Sophisticated IED making instructions, money, etc. Saddam should would have some company on the gallows. Thanks you US State Department and lame, pissy military leadership. Please take personal pride in the next soldier, sailor, airman, or marine that dies from a phueching IED you spineless bastards.

Posted by Besoeker 2006-12-29 09:39|| 2006-12-29 09:39|| Front Page Top

#5 I think all future raids should end like the Sadr top aid the other day. Littlest move fire death and then problem solved and no one can request his release.

I understand why its valuable to capture alive for interrogation but this kind of stuff is just bullsh*t. The last thing we need to do is get caught in a Isreali trap of catch and release at every hollow negotiation or request for show of good faith. Arrrrr

Posted by C-Low 2006-12-29 10:32|| 2006-12-29 10:32|| Front Page Top

#6 "I'm really starting to think these people aren't worth it."

Maybe yes, maybe no, but that's not really why we're there.

Thank God the grunts kick ass, even while politicians do what ever it is they do.

Posted by Hyper">Hyper 2006-12-29 11:06|| 2006-12-29 11:06|| Front Page Top

#7 This makes me want me want my son out of the military. These folks should have been shot at sunrise.

Posted by Moon6">Moon6 2006-12-29 11:58|| 2006-12-29 11:58|| Front Page Top

#8 Please thank your son from us, Moon6. Unfortunately, if they weren't fighting over there, however counterproductive the Rules of Engagement and diplomatic stupidities, we'd be fighting here at home soon enough.

Posted by trailing wife 2006-12-29 13:00|| 2006-12-29 13:00|| Front Page Top

#9 Maybe we SHOULD be fighting at home. It seems our enemy is "aided and abetted" by our on State Department and every dummycritter in the Congress. Hanging a few of THEM for "failure to register as an agent of a foreign power" would go a long way toward cleaning up the mess that is Washington, DC.

Posted by Old Patriot">Old Patriot 2006-12-29 14:45|| http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/]">[http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/] 2006-12-29 14:45|| Front Page Top

#10 This story is so wrong on so many levels.

The other day I learn that the US State Dept. conspired to cover Arafat's ass over the murder of US Dips.

Today I learn that enemy Iranian agents caught red handed are cut loose.

This is just the tip of the proverbeal iceberg.

Whatever happened to the country I thought I knew?

Maybe it never existed.

I don't know if Moon6 is a Dad or Mom, but his or her point is well taken. And I agree: whoever the Iranians were, they should have been shot.

Posted by Mark Z">Mark Z 2006-12-29 15:00|| 2006-12-29 15:00|| Front Page Top

#11 Part of me agrees with OP there. Maybe we should bring home our troops, if they're gonna be hamstrung by stupid-@ss ROEs like this one. Part of me (no matter how badly I do NOT want any more Americans to die, no matter what shape, political affiliation or stripe) almost HOPES we get hit again. The cynic in me knows then, and ONLY then will we truly get down to business and shove all this P.C.-fighting rules aside. Let's see if these Iranians could last two hours in the woods of south Alabam or Mis-sip. And, I know our home grown patriots would "TCOB" and quickly w/o any hesitations. These brave soldiers lives are not worth the price IF this is how we continue to fight this war. It will drive us to be attacked again, and ultimately, force us to either eliminate muslims wholesale, or be eliminated ourselves.

Posted by BA 2006-12-29 17:18|| 2006-12-29 17:18|| Front Page Top

#12 Gee - I don't know. It sure seems to me that the western world is getting a lot of effectiveness out of the good old standby:

"Stop, or I'lll say "Stop" again ...."

No need to inconvenience diplomats, or anything like that.

I just hope we have some sharp ODA's prowling around the Iranian oil infrastructure, finding way to unobtrusively accelerate the natural deterioration process, so that the entire system slowly grinds to a halt. Then the Iranians can leatrn to eat rocks and tree bark - kinda like the Norks.

Posted by Lone Ranger 2006-12-29 22:26|| 2006-12-29 22:26|| Front Page Top

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