posted on May 29, 2006 05:40:46 PM
Washingtonebayer, trust me on this one. If your faith in what you believe in was strong enough you'd be reinforcing your own beliefs here instead of trolling and lying about others. You brought my name here today. It shows me that a couple of you that continue to do this have nothing left...... you're running on empty..... no beliefs that truly come from within, only the neocon lingo is left. How sad for you.
posted on May 29, 2006 05:49:20 PM
Washingtonebayer,
Oh how I wish your rants and name calling would help end this unnecessary and illegal Iraq War.
I am hoping someday you will have a better and deeper understanding of yourself and the events around you. Maybe then your thinking will become more progressive.
HELP END THIS SENSELESS WAR STARTED BY LIES FROM (Bush/Cheney) HIDING THE TRUTH.
COME JOIN THE GREAT AMERICAN PROTEST ON NOVEMBER 7th 2006
posted on May 29, 2006 08:45:40 PM
You believe whatever you want kiara but I brought your name out because people like you and peepa are damned liars and people need to know your support is as false as you are.
Neither one of you support our troops and the continued posting here by peepa just proves it.
posted on May 29, 2006 09:45:13 PMYou believe whatever you want kiara
I will, washingtonebaby and I don't need your permission to do so.
You brought my name here because Bush let you down. You realize America cannot take on Iraq and Afghanistan so your dreams of them taking on Syria and Iran at the same time too are faltering. Instead of blaming Bush and his boys for the embarrassing failures, you're a coward who hangs his head and finds it easier to take it out on an anonymous female on a chat board rather than be a man and face up to the truth. You don't fool me one bit. But do as you may, whatever pumps the weenie muscles in your shirt.
posted on May 30, 2006 06:15:41 AM
Figures you would bring your gender into it, typical reaction from someone who doesn't have a clue and is lying about their support.
posted on May 30, 2006 07:34:45 AM
Iraq War Update 5/30/2006
Total 2.465 Dead American Troops
Total 18,184 Wounded American Troops
HEY GEORGE BUSH AND DICK CHENEY WHEN YOU START AN ILLEGAL WAR ON LIES TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE. THEN MISMANAGE YOUR ILLEGAL WAR BY NOT SENDING ENOUGH TROOPS,UNDER EQUIPPING THE TROOPS PLUS OVER EXTENDING THE TROOPS TOUR OF DUTY. THE ARTICLE BELOW TELLS WHAT HAPPENS!!!!
ITS NOT THE TROOPS THAT SHOULD BE BROUGHT UP ON CHARGES. ITS THEIR FAILED COMMANDER AND CHIEF AND HIS GANG OF LIARS THAT NEED TO BE CHARGED FOR STARTING AND MISMANAGING THE IRAQ WAR.
US killing field captured on film
Correspondents in Baghdad and Washington
29may06 The Australian
PHOTOGRAPHS taken by US military intelligence have provided crucial evidence that up to 24 Iraqis were massacred by marines in the insurgent stronghold of Haditha.
One photograph shows an Iraqi mother and young child, kneeling on the floor as if in prayer. They have both been shot dead at close range.
The pictures also show other Iraqi victims, shot execution-style in the head and chest in their own homes.
A US government official said the marines involved had "suffered a total breakdown in morality and leadership".
The killings are emerging as the worst known US atrocity of the Iraq war.
At least seven women and three children were among those killed in the massacre.
Witness accounts obtained by The Sunday Times suggest the number of children killed may be as high as six.
"This one is ugly," a US military official said.
In Britain, the chief of the defence staff, Air Chief Marshal Jock Stirrup, said at the weekend the "appalling" reports of the massacre could undermine British support for the war.
"This sort of accusation does make that harder to achieve," Air Chief Marshal said.
The pictures of the dead, which are being closely guarded by the US military criminal investigation service, were taken by a military photographer who is believed to have arrived on the scene moments after the shootings.
Many US forces are accompanied by photographers to gather intelligence and to shield soldiers from accusations of torture, intimidation and violence.
But the evidence in this case points to a murder rampage by the US marines.
The stain on the US military could prove harder to erase than the photographs of sadistic abuse and torture by US guards at the Abu Ghraib prison in Baghdad.
Comparisons are being made to the My Lai massacre in Vietnam in 1968, in which US troops slaughtered 500 villagers.
Up to a dozen marines may face criminal charges - including murder, which carries the death penalty - dereliction of duty and filing false reports.
Three marine commanders were suspended last month.
With a political storm brewing, the top US marine, General Michael Hagee, flew to Baghdad on Friday to tell his troops they must kill "only when justified".
The naval inquiry is focusing on the actions of a sergeant who may have been the leader of a four-man fire team.
Miguel Terrazas, 20, a lance-corporal from El Paso, Texas, was travelling in a convoy of four Humvees in Haditha just after 7am on November 19 last year when a roadside bomb struck his vehicle, killing him and wounding two others.
The events that followed are the subject of two military inquiries due to report soon: one into the facts of the case, the other into a cover-up.
One witness, Aws Fahmi, heard his neighbour, Yunis Salim Khafif, plead for his life in English, shouting: "I am a friend, I am good."
"But they killed him, his wife and daughters," Fahmi said.
Haditha, about 225km northwest of Baghdad, has long been considered a rebel stronghold. It is among a string of Euphrates Valley towns used by insurgents and foreign fighters to infiltrate from Syria to reach Baghdad and the Sunni heartland.
posted on May 31, 2006 08:39:40 AM
Iraq War Update 5/31/2006
Total 2,471 Dead American Troops
Total 18,184 Wounded American Troops
Insurgency stymies U.S. exit plans
Increasing violence across Iraq, especially in Anbar province, makes withdrawal of troops less likely this year
By Louise Roug and Peter Spiegel
LOS ANGELES TIMES
BAGHDAD, Iraq - The Pentagon's hopes to make substantial reductions in U.S. troop levels in Iraq this year appear to be fading as a result of resurgent violence in the country, particularly in the Sunni Arab stronghold of Anbar province, military officials acknowledge.
U.S. Army Gen. George Casey, commander of coalition forces in Iraq, announced Tuesday that he was moving 1,500 reserve troops that had been held in Kuwait to Anbar, the restive western region that includes the war-torn cities of Fallujah and Ramadi.
Pentagon officials insisted publicly Tuesday that the move to temporarily bolster forces was unconnected to Casey's pending recommendation on overall troop levels, now expected to come sometime next month after a series of delays.
But other officers have privately acknowledged the worsening situation in Anbar -- particularly in Ramadi, which U.S. officials acknowledge is now under insurgent control -- is likely to prevent any significant draw-down this year.
Since the beginning of this year, military commanders have said that political progress and the advancing Iraqi military may allow for substantial U.S. troop reductions, from more than 130,000 now to 100,000 or below.
But one senior officer privy to Iraq planning discussions, who requested anonymity when talking about internal Pentagon debates, said "there's a growing realization" that ongoing violence is hampering withdrawal plans.
British Prime Minister Tony Blair gave a hint of that realization last week when, after a meeting with Casey, he said he expected insurgents to "test" the new Iraqi government "very, very strongly" in the coming months.
Blair and President Bush, meeting at the White House last week, put off any announcement on reducing troops.
Ramadi remains the area of most concern, military officials in Iraq and Washington said.
Brig. Gen. Carter Ham, a senior planner for the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said last week that Ramadi is "probably the most contentious city right now inside Iraq", adding there are suspicions Abu Musab Zarqawi's organization may be trying to establish a "safe haven" in the city.
"It's a convenient location in that regard, because of the Euphrates River valley access to border areas, (as well as) access into Baghdad," Ham said. "You could see from that area why it would be an area they'd be interested in."
Signs that Zarqawi-linked groups have taken over the city have been growing.
One by one, Sunni sheiks with ties to nationalist rebels, who earlier in the year vowed to fight radical Islamic insurgents in Anbar province and Ramadi, have been assassinated, a sign they are losing the internecine fight.
Tribal leaders describe Ramadi as "lawless"; American troops are currently unable to stop the gunmen who threaten and kill local residents, they say.
U.S. forces in the city, which are currently being led by a National Guard brigade, remain hunkered down in the battle-scarred downtown government center and come under large-scale attacks almost daily.
After repeated attacks on officers and recruits, the city has no effective Iraqi police force.
Despite Ramadi's growing emergence as an insurgent stronghold, military officials insisted the move of new troops to Anbar was a "short-term deployment," part of an effort to "facilitate and assist" existing Iraqi forces in the area, rather than a prelude to an offensive similar to 2004's attack on nearby Fallujah, which at the time had become a haven for rebels.
"Moving this force will allow tribal leaders and government officials to go about the very difficult task of taking back their towns from the criminal elements," said Maj. Todd Breasseale, a U.S. military spokesman in Baghdad. "The local sheiks are trying to do the right thing but they need help doing it."
Bryan Whitman, a Pentagon spokesman, also said that while Anbar remained a "challenge," it did not reflect the security situation in the rest of Iraq.
The Pentagon's congressionally mandated quarterly status report on Iraq, published Tuesday, showed that 81 percent of all attacks in the past three months were in four central-Iraqi provinces, including Anbar, while the rest remained comparatively peaceful.
But the report also showed a marked increase in the number of those attacks, rising from fewer than 500 a week last year to more than 600 a week in the most recent quarter, due largely to sectarian violence that erupted after the February bombing of a prominent Shiite mosque in Samarra.
Casualties from those attacks have overwhelmingly hit Iraqis, including their security forces, with nearly 80 killed or wounded every day from mid-February through mid-May -- up from fewer than 60 during the preceding quarter.
At least 92 U.S. soldiers have been killed in Anbar since the start of the year.
Residents of Ramadi have detected an intensified effort by U.S. forces to wrest control of the city's streets from insurgents in recent days.
According to one Sunni sheik from the province, American forces have stepped up bombing raids in the past week and a half, and have been more aggressive on the ground. Residents have begun to leave.
Ibrahim Zaki Humadi, 37, who left Ramadi with his wife and five children three weeks ago, said U.S. troops cordoned off his neighborhood with concrete blocks and sniper positions.
Residents have to signal American soldiers when they want to leave the area, he said.
"They are fortifying their positions, and are shooting at everyone who moves who doesn't carry a white flag, and even that cannot guarantee your survival," he said, referring to both Iraqi and American troops. "The situation is miserable."
Ali Hatim Salman, a tribal sheik from Anbar, said an increasing number of civilians are fleeing Ramadi, either to its suburbs or to Baghdad, at least in part due to suspicions the United States is preparing an offensive.
"Some areas in Ramadi are controlled completely by the terrorists," said Salman.
An attack on Ramadi would likely mean a delay in any large-scale withdrawal from Iraq, forcing U.S. commanders to draw on a significant work force to clear out -- and then stabilize -- the surrounding region, as well as to prepare contingencies for any backlash elsewhere in the Sunni Triangle.
"You can't do that and withdraw at the same time," said another military officer.
posted on May 31, 2006 10:32:36 AM
stonecold,Ronnie,bear,liar_k and other leftover supporters of this failed administration just can't stand the truth about the illegal Iraq War.
AN ILLEGAL WAR THEIR FAILED LEADER DUMBO BUSH CAN'T FIND A WAY TO WIN OR GET OUT OF.
SINCE APRIL 15th 2006 UNTIL TODAY AMERICA HAS LOST 100 TROOPS IN IRAQ ABOUT 17 TROOPS PER WEEK.
NO MATTER WHAT THEY SAY OR LIES THEY QUOIT OR NAMES THEY CALL ME THEY CAN'T CHANGE THE TRUTH.
05/31/06 AP: 71 journalist killed in Iraq, Vietnam wars
With the deaths of two CBS television crew members from a car bomb in Baghdad, the number of journalists who have died in hostile incidents in Iraq has risen to 71 — the same number killed or presumed dead during the Vietnam War.
05/31/06 Reuters: Forty-two bodies found dumped across Baghdad
Forty-two dumped bodies have been found in different parts of Baghdad over the last 24 hours -- many of them shot, bound and showing signs of torture, police sources said on Wednesday.
COME AND JOIN THE GREAT AMERICAN PROTEST ON NOVEMBER 7th 2006. TOGETHER WE CAN MAKE A BETTER AMERICA FOR THE MAJORITY OF AMERICANS.
posted on May 31, 2006 12:34:57 PM
ronnie, NO MATTER WHAT YOU SAY OR LIES YOU QUOIT OR NAMES YOU CALL ME. YOU CAN'T CHANGE THE TRUTH.
War widows find that everything is 'just gone'
Alex Fryer
May 31, 2006 3:10 AM
The Seattle Times
Women married to soldiers frequently talk about ''our career,'' a joint effort that takes them across the globe, breaking old friendships and forging new ones with each new assignment. The Army develops a tight social network by organizing spouses to send care packages to deployed soldiers and to watch videos sent home from the troops.
''That's what I was, a military wife.'' When he died, I lost my husband and best friend; I lost my home; I lost my community; I lost my identity, all my friends and everyone I knew there. All that, just gone.''
MORE HERE
http://www.newspress.com/Top/Article/article.jsp?Section=NATIONAL&ID=564743983005565040
posted on May 31, 2006 06:06:45 PM
Here's a question for ya.
How many troops were killed during World War 2 during the democrat FDR's term? And how about the Korean War with democrat Harry Truman's term and dropping the H bomb on Japan killing the most civilians of any president in our history?
posted on May 31, 2006 06:41:26 PM
barfarts, what do apples have to do with oranges? you are doing nothing more than setting up a straw man aka red herring.
posted on May 31, 2006 06:52:40 PM
Even though Bush tried to relate it, there is no comparison between Bush's war and WWII. Congress declared war in WWII. Bush declared war without Congress, as if America is a dictatorship run by the 'decider' only.
WWII had international support. Bush's war does not. WWII had the support of America. Bush's war does not.
During WWII there were identifiable enemy nations (Germany, Japan) and there are none in Bush's war. He is not fighting the Iraqis nor is he fighting Sadaam. Nor is he fighting an international aggressor like Hitler, as Bush is now the aggressor. He is supposedly fighting 'terrorism' with an unidentifiable enemy by creating more terrorism each day.
Bush's war is urban guerilla warfare and the troops are not trained to fight that way for the most part.
Bush is sending the young people to be maimed and killed all because he made a huge mistake and won't admit it. They all deserve much better than to waste their lives on Bush's nightmare scenario of never-ending war. Most parents who love their children do not raise them to be killed like this. It's a disgrace.
posted on June 1, 2006 10:23:01 AM
Way to go BP!!!! You put the dumbazzes in their places. Now they cry like the little chickens that they are. Just like the typical demomorons that they are, trying to change the subject away from their own total failures.
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Many misleading tricks in 2006. The new Demomoron slogan.
posted on June 1, 2006 11:52:38 AM
Iraq War Update 6/01/2006
Total 2,471 Dead American Troops
Total 18,184 Wounded American Troops
06/01/06 Reuters: US troops focus on al Qaeda in Iraq's Ramadi
Al Qaeda militants have gained ground in Ramadi and the 1,500 extra U.S. troops brought to Iraq to help fight them will be used to try to break their grip on the town, the U.S. military said on Thursday.
IRAQ'S CIVIL WAR IS SPREADING.
New York Times 6/01/2006
violence is spreading into the oncepeaceful Basra.
Once seemingly immune to the violence that has plagued the rest of the country, Basra Province, the heart of Iraq's Shiite south, has sunk into chaos. Shiite political parties and their militias are fighting to control the provincial government...
FROM THE START DUMBO HAS PLAYED INTO AL QAEDA'S HANDS THEY OUT SMARTED DUMB GEORGE
IRAQI'S ARE JOIN AL QUEDA BY THE HUNDREDS IF NOT THOUSANDS.
QAEDA CAN NOW DIVERT SOME OF THEIR PEOPLE AND MONEY TO AFGHANISTAN.
AFGHANISTAN WHERE THE TAILABAN RULE THE SOUTH AND HEROIN PRODUCERS RULE THE NORTH.
posted on June 1, 2006 12:36:54 PM
1950-1953 Korean War 54246 American Troops Dead 103284 American Troops Wounded.
1941-1945 World War II 408306 American Troops Dead 670846 American Troop Wounded
You examples bidpeepa actually show how few causulties there are compared to other wars. You indirectly are actually showing how well Bush is doing by keeping those numbers down.
posted on June 1, 2006 03:26:28 PM
barparts,NO MATTER WHAT YOU SAY OR QUOIT YESTERYEAR'S WAR STATS. YOU CAN'T CHANGE THE TRUTH OF TODAY.
Today is 6/01/2006 and American Troops are being killed or wounded in the Iraq War everyday.
THIS WAR STARTED BY DUMBO BUSH AND UNDER HIS FAILED LEADERSHIP HAS NOW PUT IRAQ INTO CIVIL WAR. IRAQI'S KILLING IRAQI'S. IRAQI'S JOINING AL QAEDA TO KILL BOTH IRAQI'S AND AMERICANS.
DUMBO BUSH IS NOT FIGHTING THIS WAR TO WIN IT AND NEVER HAS. HIS GENERALS CRIED FOR MORE TROOPS AND EQUIPMENT BUT NO BUSH DID NOT RESPOND HE KNEW BETTER.
PLUS DUMBO BUSH HAS NO WAY OUT OF HIS WAR. HE HAS SAID "THE IRAQ WAR WILL BE ENDED BY ANOTHER PRESIDENT".
FINALLY I MET A MAN THAT SPENT 30 YEARS IN THE U.S. MARINES TODAY. HE SAID ABOUT IRAQ THAT "THEY ARE FIGHTING IT JUST LIKE THEY FOUGHT VIET NAM". HE WENT ON TO SAY "THEY DIDN'T WIN IN VIET NAM AND WON'T WIN IN IRAQ.". THIS MAN THOUGHT THE IRAQ WAR WAS A GOOD IDEA IN THE BEGINNING. BUT NOW BELIEVES ITS NOT THE TROOPS FAULT IT TURNED INTO A MESS. THIS 30 YEAR MARINE SAID "ITS POOR CIVILIAN LEADERSHIP".
posted on June 1, 2006 09:19:15 PM
That's right Maggie bobobeembebooommmboob. Change the subject just like the typical demomoron when you are losing the argument. And yet the bigdopa keeps right on proving time and time again with his own stats, how Bush is really doing a fairly good job keeping troops alive in war time.
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Many misleading tricks in 2006. The new Demomoron slogan.
posted on June 1, 2006 09:47:45 PM
Of course your comparisons are correct, barparts.
And as far as the deaths....I too have pointed that out to those who use our troops death for their own agendas.
And what peepa refuses to acknowledge, time and time again, is that our Congress, including many democrats, continues to show they're approval of this war/s by continuing to FUND them.
BUT.....what can I say....using our brave soldiers DEATHS brings them some sort of 'sick' pleasure.
While the democratic party complains about everything THIS President does to protect our Nation:
What would a Democrat president have done at that point? Apparently, the answer is: Sit back and wait for the next terrorist attack.
Ann Coulter
posted on June 1, 2006 11:06:49 PM
You cannot compare WWII or the Korean war to this fiasco in Iraq. The troops are not in Iraq in the same numbers as those wars. This war has no cause. America has been losing the war from the very start because they cannot fight a war with no planning, that's why the losses are so tragic.
BUT.....what can I say....using our brave soldiers DEATHS brings them some sort of 'sick' pleasure.
Yes, that describes YOU perfectly, lindak. You are using the deaths of the soldiers for your own perverse pleasure of worshipping your leader and to feed your lust for more bloodshed, no matter the cost. In fact you would like to send more of them to be killed and maimed in Iran also.
Some of you promoted genocide here for all Muslims so why do you want to bring them freedom and Democracy in Iraq and across the Middle East and why do you want this war to continue? You've shown that you hate Muslims so what's in it for you? Do you actually think you can bring them all Democracy? Do you expect them all to become just as you are then? You can't even get along with people of different viewpoints and cultures in your own country and you do nothing but promote hatred.
With all the corruption in your government that's broadcast daily worldwide how can you ever think America is setting a good example for Democracy and nation building in the Middle East? They're not so they should get out of there before they cause even more damage to all.
posted on June 2, 2006 05:05:34 AM
Iraq War Update 6/02/2006
Total 2,472 Dead American Troops
Total 18,184 Wounded American Troops
While DUMBO BUSH supporters call me names their failed leader is not fighting his illegal Iraq to WIN IT or does DUMBO have a WAY OUT of his Illegal war.
NO MATTER WHAT THEY SAY OR LIES THEY QUOIT OR NAMES THEY CALL ME. THEY CAN'T CHANGE THE TRUTH.
IRAQI'S KILLING IRAQI'S IN CIVIL WAR
06/02/06 Reuters; Gunmen Kill Iraqi Colonel in Kirkut
Gunmen shot dead down Colonel Ziad Tareq, deputy commander of a protection unit in Kirkuk, late on Tuesday in the city 250 km ( 155 miles) north of Baghdad, an army source said.
06/02/06 Reuters: Roadside bomb wounds 2 policemen
Two policemen were wounded when a roadside bomb exploded in the western Mansoor district of Baghdad, police sources said.
06/02/06 AP: Second bomb kills 2, injures 5
About 10 minutes later, an explosion near a Shiite mosque in the eastern Baghdad neighborhood of Jadida killed two civilians and injured five, according to Lt. Ali Abbas.
06/02/06 AP: Bombs Kill 5 at Pet Market in Baghdad
Two bombs struck in quick succession at a pet market Friday morning in central Baghdad, killing at least five people and wounding 57, police said.The explosives were left in a bag at the al-Ghazil market, where Iraqis can go every Friday
