Iraqi vote

“Dang! Sorry about that. I stated a view that doesn't fit the lockstep neo-con view you have of me. how about ya just gohead and change whatever words fits best for you, add a few here and there, and I'll come back and see what ya come up with.”

“Yes Nigal, I'll start thinking you're a "liberal" soon.”

“BLASPHEMY! I've been called some pretty low down things in day but LIBERAL is NOT one of them! Take it back this instant!”

“I... I... I...'m
Once bitten, twice shy, Babe

(Ian Hunter, b'God)



did somebody say....

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“Here's the question I have:

American soldier deaths have been happening roughly at a 2 or 3 per day rate. The result of this over time has been a slow, but steady erosion in American support for the war. But the numbers haven't eroded enough to jeopardize the mission.

Bush has moved the troops cautiously to keep the death rate this low.

On election day, we saw American troops out from their safe places and in more dangerous positions protecting the polls.

The administration had to take the risk on such an important day. The greater risk resulted in greater reward.

The question is:

Will Bush continue with the Greater Risk/Greater Reward Strategy?

Or will he return to safe mode, keeping casualty rates and ultimate success chances low?

And if he takes the Greater Risk strategy, will Americans take 5 or 7 dead soldiers per day rather than 2 or 3?

Personally, I think we need to take greater risks.”

“Here's a little deja vu for the older folks; something the kiddies can ponder:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,1403103,00.html”

“Awwww, thanks Geo!!

That's a refreshing shot of confidence in the "process".

Stay tuned........and hold on to your lug nuts!!”

“Yeah, this is about where I came into this movie. Here's my popcorn. I'm outa here. I know how this movie ends.”

“Why not Cuba?”

“Just keep hoping for the worste Geo. Maybe it'll happen for ya.”

“Why is it hoping for the worst when you realize we've made this mistake before. The real problem lies in the fact our government cannot learn from its mistakes. Of course, Vietnam is something I'm sure GW knows very little about.

Also, who really believed that over 70% of the eligible population turned out when there weren't even polls set up in the entire country. Not to mention the number of people that did not register. People cry about liberals being optimistic.”

“Why is it assumed to be positive to call something a failure before it actually is? One fact that does not get challenged enough is; Iraq is NOT Vietnam.”

“Never get involved in a Land War in Asia.


Oh - and I'm 1/2 Sicilian.
last edited: 2/01/05 5:10:02 PM”

“Iraq's not the U.S. either but we sure enjoy running it just the same.”

“Iraq's not being run the same as the US. How is this?”

“Fear of civil war grows as Shia start to retaliate

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,7374-1623875,00.html”

“So there's still hope?”

“Iraqis Stunned by the Violence of a Bombing

BAGHDAD, Iraq, July 17 - Even in Iraq, where shocking killings have become part of daily life, some acts are so profoundly violent that the country seems to pause, trying to fathom what happened.

That was the case on Sunday, after a suicide bomber appeared in Musayyib, a poor town just south of Baghdad, and blew himself up under a fuel tanker on Saturday night, igniting a fireball that engulfed cars, shops and homes. At least 71 people died; 156 were wounded. Some bodies were badly charred, making identification difficult.

Some senior elected officials and civic and religious leaders spoke out on Sunday, condemning the attack, one of a wave of suicide bombings that has shaken the greater Baghdad area in the past eight days. Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, the most revered Shiite cleric in Iraq, asked the government "to defend this country against the mass annihilation," according to Vice President Adel Abdul Mahdi, who led a delegation that visited the ayatollah on Sunday.

But nothing has stopped the bombings. In Baghdad, four suicide bombers struck within a span of four and a half hours on Sunday.

An Interior Ministry official listed the attacks: at 8 a.m., a car exploded at a checkpoint guarded by ministry commandos, killing three of them and wounding 10 civilians. Another car bomb killed a police commando and a civilian and wounded five civilians at 9:45 a.m. A third detonated near an office of the High Electoral Commission in Baghdad at 11:10 a.m., killing three and wounding one. The fourth struck at 12:30 p.m., killing one civilian and wounding another.
[...]”

“all political bickering about the situation in iraq aside, all the unnecessary deaths are very sad indeed

ok, fuego mode back on”

“I have a feeling that the Iraqi people are soon going to turn against these foreign jihadist terrorists. It'll sort itself out, in a sense.”

“Bush doesn't care an iota about the Iraqi people. It's the oil. If nothing else good comes of this war, at least we have lower gas prices.”

“GET OUT THE VOTE
by SEYMOUR M. HERSH
Did Washington try to manipulate Iraq’s election?

http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/articles/050725fa_fact”

“Looks like Iraq has joined the democratic ranks of Florida.”

“They were much better off when they had a choice between Saddam Husane and Saddam Husane.”

“A lot of people have died since Sodomy Insane has been locked up in the slammer.”

“Yeah and everything was honky-dory before he was taken down. No one died on his watch...”

“"Yeah and everything was honky-dory before he was taken down. No one died on his watch...”
Nigal
12:21:51 PM


That is a stinkin' lie!!

What's the matter, you miss your buddy?”

“Here's a funny one for ya MarkO. I ggoogled images for "stinking lie" and look what popped up. LOL!

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Dip your finger in ink for solidarity.”

“Hey, i got a toe that looks like that.”

“Keep pictures of your dick off this board, Bacpac!”

“Jealous?”

“Of that? Don't make me laugh!”

“One Inch might be jealous!”

“I should have posted my thumb.”

“"solidarity"

Bringing "freedom" to the oppressed peoples of the world??

(Don't pay any attention to all that petroleum over there.
It has nothing to do with it.)”

“bacpac has a nail on his wiener? I hope he trims regularly.”

“Have to say they seem to have gone very well. Lets hope this is a good sign for the future.”

“IED in your pen bacpac ;o)”

“Back in the dim and dusty past I once read that the Gettysburg Address was 272 words, whereas the latest gov't regulations on cabbage was upwards of 45,000 words.”

“44,997 for cabbage if you removed, 'No Preemptive Strike'.”