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2007-02-06 Iraq

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Posted by ryuge 2007-02-06 06:12|| || Front Page|| [6 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 The head of the CIA, Michael Hayden, put it starkly: "An al Qaeda victory in Iraq would mean a fundamentalist state that shelters jihadists and serves as a launching pad for terrorist operations throughout the region and against our own homeland."

General Hayden has it right. I hope all of his Klingon colleagues were listening.

Posted by Besoeker 2007-02-06 06:56|| 2007-02-06 06:56|| Front Page Top

#2 Klingons Vs Orcs, no question who wins that match, poor orcs don't have a chance.

Posted by Redneck Jim 2007-02-06 09:55|| 2007-02-06 09:55|| Front Page Top

#3 "Democracy requires security" - D'oh! Iraqi Orcs have been running rampant for years now.
The attention span of the American electorate has apparently been exhausted. God save the Iraqis, we won't.
Hotspur should have replied, "But will those spirits from the vasty deep do your bidding, if indeed they show up in the first place?"

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2007-02-06 11:50|| 2007-02-06 11:50|| Front Page Top

#4 "Call for them" - the USA + Allies are trying to empower Western-style democracy = democracy wid local characteristics in a nation and region that has had little to no experience or tradition of same. Patton + MacArthur were not afraid to use the bayonet to make it clear to the opposition whom controls whom - THE IMAGE OF A PATTON OR MACARTHUR "ASKING" MALIKI TO "PLEASE" ASK HIS TROOPS TO SHOW UP IS TOO FUNNY. SHOWS THE POST-CLINTON USDOD HAS LOST ITS ABILITY TO KNOW WHEN TO SELECTIVELY PROPERLY APPLY THE BAYONET = CALL IN THE TANKS.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2007-02-06 20:17|| 2007-02-06 20:17|| Front Page Top

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