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2007-03-12 Iraq

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Posted by Mike 2007-03-12 12:07|| || Front Page|| [6 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 very contrary to what you hear in most of the press

Doesn't necessarily makes it right.

Posted by gromgoru 2007-03-12 12:16|| 2007-03-12 12:16|| Front Page Top

#2 Its one person's opinion.

The problem is that Al Q in Iraq has been effective at replacing losses, finding new recruits, acquiring bombs and penetrating into high population areas. Even when we are at full surge levels, there will still be a suicide or car bomb every week or so. It may be a 'win' but its not even close to a complete win.

Posted by mhw 2007-03-12 13:01|| http://hypocrisy-incorporated.blogspot.com/]">[http://hypocrisy-incorporated.blogspot.com/] 2007-03-12 13:01|| Front Page Top

#3 Al qaeda has lost because the Sunnis have lost. Near half of the Sunnis have already been pushed out of Iraq. The civil war will be over when the rest are ethnically cleansed. Instead of making nice and making a go of a democratic government and sharing the pie, the stupid fucks thought they could terrorize their way to power. But that doesn't work when the other side has most of the manpower, firepower and an even bloodier ideology.

Posted by ed 2007-03-12 13:28|| 2007-03-12 13:28|| Front Page Top

#4 The situation on the battlefield is hardly relevant. The US Congress will decide who wins the war.

Posted by gromky 2007-03-12 15:57|| 2007-03-12 15:57|| Front Page Top

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