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Starman
SFN Regular
Sweden
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 Posted - 02/24/2006 : 01:51:35 [Permalink]
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Heck of a job Bushie, heck of a job!
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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
15831 Posts |
Posted - 02/24/2006 : 02:25:15 [Permalink]
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Starman praised: quote:
Heck of a job Bushie, heck of a job!
In fact, an outright Hellish job.
An AP article in Forbes:
http://www.forbes.com/home/feeds/ap/2006/02/23/ap2549884.html
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Gunmen killed dozens of civilians Thursday and dumped their bodies in a ditch, as the government ordered a tough daytime curfew of Baghdad and three provinces to stem the sectarian violence that has left at least 114 dead since the bombing of a Shiite shrine.
Seven U.S. soldiers died in a pair of roadside bombings north of the capital, and American military units in the Baghdad area were told to halt all but essential travel to avoid getting caught up in demonstrations or roadblocks.
As the country careened to the brink of civil war, Iraqi state television announced an unusual daytime curfew, ordering people off the streets Friday in Baghdad and the nearby flashpoint provinces of Diyala, Babil and Salaheddin, where the shrine bombing took place.
Such a sweeping daytime curfew indicated the depth of fear within the government that the crisis could touch off a Sunni-Shiite civil war. "This is the first time that I have heard politicians say they are worried about the outbreak of civil war," Kurdish elder statesman Mahmoud Othman told The Associated Press.
The White House has its Iraq military spokesmen locked in denial mode (Forbes):quote:
"We're not seeing civil war igniting in Iraq," Maj. Gen. Rick Lynch, a spokesman for the U.S. command, told reporters.
And as Iraq continues to unravel in an accelerating fashion, CNN.com says:
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"Once we get past the immediate repercussions of yesterday's violence, we will see things stabilize again," said Robert Ford, political officer at the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad.
Deja fucking Vietnam vu.
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“Biology is just physics that has begun to smell bad.” —HalfMooner
Here's a link to Moonscape News, and one to its Archive. |
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beskeptigal
SFN Die Hard
USA
3834 Posts |
Posted - 02/24/2006 : 15:15:23 [Permalink]
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quote:
Originally posted by HalfMooner
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Deja fucking Vietnam vu.
The parallels from the same actors to the false pretenses to go in are strikingly similar, aren't they? |
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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
15831 Posts |
Posted - 02/24/2006 : 20:12:11 [Permalink]
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B observed: quote:
The parallels from the same actors to the false pretenses to go in are strikingly similar, aren't they?
Oh, my yes. I am reminded of phrases such as "we can see the light at the end of the tunnel." And the late General Westmoreland's willingness to spout any dishonest lines that a wrong-headed Administration wanted him to say. That was my war, and the bitterness is still near the surface, ready to be brought up through (non-psychotic) flashbacks triggered by events in Iraq.
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“Biology is just physics that has begun to smell bad.” —HalfMooner
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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
15831 Posts |
Posted - 07/20/2006 : 20:18:40 [Permalink]
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I'm bumping this old topic because the top Democrat in the Senate, Senator Harry Reid of Nevada, has (finally) come out and recognized that a civil war is going on in Iraq. By my reckoning, he's five months late with his observation, but at least he's admitting to the obvious now, unlike Bush and the Republicans.
From CNN.com:quote:
Sen. Reid: Iraq devolves into 'civil war'
Democratic leader will try to revive Senate debate on Iraq
From Dana Bash
CNN Washington Bureau
Thursday, July 20, 2006; Posted: 9:03 p.m. EDT (01:03 GMT)
Sen. Harry Reid, D-Nevada, argues
a civil war has broken out in Iraq
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Declaring that he believes the situation in Iraq has devolved into a civil war, Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid said Thursday he plans to try to bring the war back up for debate on the Senate floor.
The Nevada Democrat said he has been "somewhat gingerly approaching this.... No longer. There is a civil war going on in Iraq. In the last two months, more than 6,000 Iraqis have been killed. That's averaging more than 100 a day being killed in Iraq and we need to make sure there is a debate on this."
Republicans questioned why Reid wants to go over old ground and were ready to highlight the divisions among Democrats once again.
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"Talk about your bad summer reruns," said Eric Ueland, Chief of Staff to Majority Leader Bill Frist, "if they want to do that we'll go to the mats," he said.
Ueland threatened that Republicans would offer a proposal from Sen. John Kerry, D-Massachusetts, which calls for U.S. troops to come home by July of 2007.
That plan garnered only 13 Democratic votes in June, and illustrated the party's divide over the issue.
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“Biology is just physics that has begun to smell bad.” —HalfMooner
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