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2004-08-07 Iraq-Jordan

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Posted by Fred 2004-08-07 12:06:04 AM|| || Front Page|| [11132 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 I'd like to know more about those minarets. If they were harmed, shame, no?

But of bigger concern is how big is this uprising. Does it signal Iranian involvelment. Is there a large shiite backing? Is it all going to shit? I'd be surprized if it didn't!

Posted by Lucky 2004-08-07 1:50:45 AM|| 2004-08-07 1:50:45 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 So how long does the fighting have to go on before the idiot reporters stop mentioning the "shattered truce agreed in June"? Weeks? Months? Years?

Posted by PBMcL 2004-08-07 2:23:11 AM|| 2004-08-07 2:23:11 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 The 300 number is unusual in two respects: it is a very high figure and it is one of the few times that US forces are claiming a body count.

Posted by Super Hose 2004-08-07 2:24:59 AM|| 2004-08-07 2:24:59 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 Good point SH I was wondering about that to, one would think that the Mahdi""Army"" would have learned something from the previous rounds by now.

Posted by Heisenbergmayhavebeenhere 2004-08-07 3:24:39 AM|| 2004-08-07 3:24:39 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 #4, I agree with you. Apparently the US did not learn the Beirut lesson well yet !

Posted by Hellen 2004-08-07 6:33:45 AM|| 2004-08-07 6:33:45 AM|| Front Page Top

#6 On rereading my comment: Apollogies for not making much sense, I blame sleep-deprivation so I'll just shut up and hed for the hay now.

Posted by Heisenbergmayhavebeenhere 2004-08-07 7:37:57 AM|| 2004-08-07 7:37:57 AM|| Front Page Top

#7 Got it backwards Ellen, Beriut hasn't learned it's American lesson yet.
Sit down and have a cookie.

Posted by Shipman 2004-08-07 8:50:08 AM|| 2004-08-07 8:50:08 AM|| Front Page Top

#8 Could be the last peel for the tater.

Posted by Mr. Davis 2004-08-07 9:03:20 AM|| 2004-08-07 9:03:20 AM|| Front Page Top

#9 UMMMMM! Baked tater with sour cream and butter. I can hardly wait.

Posted by Craig 2004-08-07 10:08:29 AM|| 2004-08-07 10:08:29 AM|| Front Page Top

#10 I like my baked Tater covered in bacon bits

[smirk]

Posted by Oldspook 2004-08-07 11:07:53 AM|| 2004-08-07 11:07:53 AM|| Front Page Top

#11 Didn't Sadr's militia lose something like 4000 dead in May? Marine B. Gen Kelly said it best, "We shoot them down like the morons they are."

Posted by ed 2004-08-07 12:03:56 PM|| 2004-08-07 12:03:56 PM|| Front Page Top

#12 Helen, on the contrary, what you are seeing now is because the US finally understands the lesson of Beirut. The only way to deal with terrorists is to implacably, inexorably kill them all and NEVER retreat. When we pulled out of Beirut, we encouraged these animals and Beirut began a long sad decline.

I'd say Tater's Tots are going to be deep fried.

Posted by RWV 2004-08-07 3:06:08 PM|| 2004-08-07 3:06:08 PM|| Front Page Top

#13 Hellen, are you willing to spell out what you think the Beirut lesson is?

This gloating about past "victories" is a common practice for terror apologists, who ignore that the whining, pleading, and begging by their own side on behalf of "innocents" and "peaceful resolution" was a major reason that we abandoned these conflicts.

The invited inference of the gloating, that we were defeated by superior will or superior force, is simply a lie. It is an important lie, though, for its constant repetition by vile propagandists like Fisk, Pilger and Raven is one of the reasons that these thousands of naive jihadis actually believed that they would have a chance in a direct confrontation with American forces.
During the initial invasion of Iraq last year, for instance, American troops expressed amazement at the suicidal jihadi practice of driving cars straight at American tanks. The Arab and western collaborator (hard left) media, it turns out, had been full of heroic fantasies about such tactics destroying the invading tanks in wholesale lots.

I am not without pity---- and, therefore, I believe that the blood of the slaughtered jihadis is at least partly on the hands of lying leftists who incited and encouraged them.
That includes you.

Posted by Atomic Conspiracy 2004-08-07 8:11:24 PM|| 2004-08-07 8:11:24 PM|| Front Page Top

#14 Ask the 300 dead ragheads how well we learned that lesson Helen........bwhahahaha. Lock & Load baby.

Posted by Jarhead 2004-08-08 12:37:39 AM|| 2004-08-08 12:37:39 AM|| Front Page Top

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