posted on February 10, 2007 10:24:27 PM new
And an UPDATED and FULL report from the SAME article 'waco'peepa posted by Reuters:
Also says:
Feith, who left government in 2005, welcomed the finding that his activities were legal and authorized but said it was "absurd" to conclude that his work was inappropriate.
"It, of course, varied from (the) consensus. It was a criticism of that consensus. That is why it was written," he said in a statement.
Republicans loyal to President George W. Bush rebutted Levin and called Feith's work an intelligence critique that required no formal vetting process.
"I don't think in any way that his report can be interpreted as a devastating condemnation," said Sen. James Inhofe, an Oklahoma Republican.
Defense Secretary Robert Gates, who replaced Donald Rumsfeld in December, did not comment on the substance of the report but said intelligence should to be handled through established channels.
"If intelligence is inadequate, then changes need to be made in those institutions to improve intelligence," Gates told reporters in Spain.
(Additional reporting by Andrew Gray and Joanne Allen, and by Kristin Roberts in Seville)
posted on February 11, 2007 05:03:23 AM new
The beginning of the our new plan:
February 11, 2007 at 4:10:3 PST
U.S., Iraqi Troops Find Weapons Caches
ASSOCIATED PRESS
BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP)
U.S. and Iraqi troops found 14 weapons caches and detained 140 suspects in a week, focusing on mainly Shiite eastern Baghdad in the initial phase of a security sweep to end the violence in the capital, the military said Sunday.
More than 7,400 patrols and 34 operations were conducted in the week of Feb. 3-9, said U.S. Brig. Gen. John Campbell, the deputy commander of American forces in Baghdad.
He said he was encouraged by the early results.
"With the cache finds this week, the detentions we've made and creating a larger presence on Baghdad streets with the establishment of another combat outpost, we are making headway with the Baghdad security plan," Campbell said.
"This is only the beginning."
The chief military spokesman, Maj. Gen. William B. Caldwell, said Wednesday that the much-anticipated Baghdad security operation was under way. His remarks came about a month after President Bush announced he was dispatching 21,500 more troops to curb sectarian bloodletting.
"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
[ edited by Linda_K on Feb 11, 2007 05:07 AM ]
posted on February 11, 2007 06:22:58 AM new
Suicide Bomber Kills 30 Near Tikrit
U.S. to Detail Iran's Involvement in Iraq Violence
AP
BAGHDAD, Iraq (Feb. 11) - A suicide truck bomber slammed into a crowd of police lining up for duty Sunday near Tikrit, collapsing the station and killing at least 30 people and wounding 50, police said.
Minutes later, a roadside bomb struck a car on a highway on the western outskirts of Tikrit, 80 miles north of Baghdad, killing two civilians and wounding two others, police said.
2/011/07 update on BUSHY'S IRAQ INVASION.
3,123 Dead American Troops in Bushy's failed Iraq invasion up up 2 overnight.
3,123 GOOD AMERICAN LIVES GONE ALL BECAUSE OF OUR COMMANDER AND FAILURE BUSHY.
AMERICA HAS 23,417 WOUNDED TROOPS
AMERICA HAS SPENT 365,000,000,000 BILLION DOLLARS ON BUSHY's FAILED IRAQ INVASION. UP 1 BILLION SINCE I LAST CHECKED A FEW DAYS AGO WITH NO END IN SIGHT!!!
posted on February 12, 2007 03:38:27 PM new
My son knew this young man. Jimmy Regan was a great Lacrosse Player from Long Island that played for Duke. The Lacrosse world is banding together to send their prayers.
02/12/07 DoD Identifies Army Casualty
Sgt. James J. Regan, 26, of Manhasset, N.Y., died Feb. 9 in northern Iraq of wounds suffered when an improvised explosive device detonated near his vehicle while on combat patrol. Regan was assigned to the 3rd Battalion, 75th Ranger Regiment...
posted on February 13, 2007 05:52:43 AM new
Funding for VA slashed in 2009
Tuesday, February 13, 2007
By ANDREW TAYLOR
ASSOCIATED PRESS
WASHINGTON -- Iraq War veteran Christopher Carbone said he wouldn't mind a decrease in his medical benefits if it meant that additional federal dollars would be used for armored Humvees on the battlefield.
But Carbone, a survivor of an improvised explosive device attack in Iraq in October 2005, couldn't help being a little jarred when he learned the Bush administration planned to cut funding for veterans' health care by 2 percent in 2009 in order to balance the federal budget by 2012.
"It's kind of surprising," Carbone, 28, of North Haledon, said Monday. "It's one of those things that you always expect to be taken care of after everything you do."
2/013/07 update on BUSHY'S IRAQ INVASION.
3,125 Dead American Troops in Bushy's failed Iraq invasion up 2.
3,125 GOOD AMERICAN LIVES GONE ALL BECAUSE OF OUR COMMANDER AND FAILURE BUSHY.
AMERICA HAS 23,417 WOUNDED TROOPS
AMERICA HAS SPENT 365,000,000,000 BILLION DOLLARS ON BUSHY's FAILED IRAQ INVASION. UP 1 BILLION SINCE I LAST CHECKED A FEW DAYS AGO WITH NO END IN SIGHT!!!
posted on February 13, 2007 11:04:59 AM new
02/12/07 Reuters: 32 bodies found in Baghdad
Police said they found 32 bodies scattered around the Iraqi capital, all apparent victims of sectarian violence.
Only CON fools like LIAR_K and her step son Bear try to compare WW-2 with IRAQ'S CIVIL WAR that BUSHY's invasion of Iraq caused.
Both LIAR_K and Bear know the majority of our troops are not being killed by Al Quaida they are being killed by Iraqis. They show how wicked their types are trying to change the focus of BUSHY'S failures in Iraq.
The very good news is CONS like LIAR_K and her step son Bear have been put in a tiny minority with little political power.
All the CONS like LIAR_k and Bear have left is a BIG MOUTH with very little political power to back up their deceitful ways. Millions or better put the majority of Americans plan to keep these CONS that way. The Majority have their type surround watching their every move.
posted on February 14, 2007 07:15:49 AM new
THE WHITE HOUSE TELLS US THIS AND THAT THE MILITARY ALSO TELLS US THIS AND THAT. HOW CAN WE BELIEVE THEM.
02/14/07 AP: U.S. military says helicopter that crashed was shot down
A Sea Knight helicopter that crashed last week northwest of Baghdad was shot down, the U.S. military said Wednesday, reversing earlier statements that it appeared to have been due to mechanical failure.
2/014/07 update on BUSHY'S IRAQ INVASION.
3,127 Dead American Troops in Bushy's failed Iraq invasion up 2 since yesterday.
3,127 GOOD AMERICAN LIVES GONE ALL BECAUSE OF OUR COMMANDER AND FAILURE BUSHY.
AMERICA HAS 23,417 WOUNDED TROOPS
AMERICA HAS SPENT 365,000,000,000 BILLION DOLLARS ON BUSHY's FAILED IRAQ INVASION. UP 1 BILLION SINCE I LAST CHECKED A FEW DAYS AGO WITH NO END IN SIGHT!!!
posted on February 14, 2007 07:58:23 AM newU.S. says "sophisticated weaponry" hit chopper in Iraq
Wed Feb 14, 2007 8:44am ET
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A transport helicopter that crashed in Iraq last week killing all seven on board was brought down by a "sophisticated piece of weaponry", the U.S. military said on Wednesday.
It was the first time they acknowledged that insurgents could be using complex weapons to attack its helicopters in Iraq.
A spokesman did not say what brought the Marine Ch-46 Sea Knight down on February 7, but an insurgent video released at the time showed what appeared to be a missile hitting the twin-rotor helicopter, sending it plummeting to the ground.
The spokesman, Major General William Caldwell, made the statement at a news briefing in Baghdad that concentrated on presenting evidence of what the U.S. military says is proof of Iran's involvement in arming Iraqi militants.
"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
[ edited by Linda_K on Feb 14, 2007 08:02 AM ]
posted on February 14, 2007 08:37:43 AM new
AGAIN THE WHITE HOUSE TELLS US THIS AND THAT THE MILITARY ALSO TELLS US THIS AND THAT. HOW CAN WE BELIEVE THEM?
posted on February 16, 2007 05:34:48 AM new
THIS KIND OF THING HAPPENDS EVERYDAY TO OUR BRAVE YOUNG MEN AND WOMAN IN BUSHY'S HELL HOLE CALLED IRAQ.
02/16/07 Sun-News - Marine loses both legs in attack
Lance Cpl. Travis Dodson, 21, and his team were attacked Wednesday in the city of Haqlaniyah...Dodson and a fellow Marine occupied an overwatch...when an enemy fighter threw what was believed to be a pipe bomb through a window.
02/15/07 WaPo: Pentagon Red Tape Keeps Medical Records From Doctors of the Wounded
Department of Veterans Affairs doctors are furious over a recent decision by the Pentagon to block their access to medical information needed to treat severely injured troops arriving at VA hospitals from Iraq and Afghanistan.
BUSHY'S PRESIDENCY WILL END IN DISGRACE BECAUSE OF HIS BLUNDERS IN IRAQ
posted on February 16, 2007 02:41:49 PM new
Last time I looked, New Orleans wasnt at war with the US.
9 Shot As New Orleans Starts Mardi Gras
Feb 16 5:05 PM US/Eastern
By MARY FOSTER
Associated Press Writer
NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- With tourists streaming into town for Mardi Gras celebrations, a spasm of gun violence left two people dead and seven wounded _ more bad news for a city struggling to rebuild itself and its tourism industry.
Officials noted the bloodshed did not occur near any of the parades Thursday night to celebrate Carnival, which culminates Tuesday in Mardi Gras.
The two unrelated shootings were not random or part of a robbery, and the victims were all targeted, Sgt. Joe Narcisse said.
In the first shooting Thursday evening, three people were shot, two fatally, in a car parked in the Ninth Ward, far from the heart of the party. The survivor _ the car's driver _ told police he knew and had given a ride to the man who shot them, Narcisse said.
Another shooting wounded six people, one critically, early Friday at a Mid-City nightclub. The gunman escaped in a stampede that followed.
"Once again it's a situation where violent crimes are taking place in inner-city neighborhoods and traditional hot spots," said Mary Beth Romig, spokeswoman for the New Orleans Metropolitan Convention and Visitors Bureau. "The truth is, Mardi Gras continues to be one of the safest times for tourist to be here."
In January, the Convention and Visitors Bureau unveiled an aggressive advertising campaign to attract tourists to the city 18 months after Hurricane Katrina.
In the French Quarter, some tourists seemed unconcerned by the violence.
"A lot of people back home told us not to come," Lisa Pencak said. "But we have crime in Pittsburgh as well, it's really no big deal. You have to be careful anywhere you go."
"When I talk to liberals, I don't expect them to understand my positions on various issues. I spend most of my time trying to help them understand their own." —Mike Adams
posted on February 16, 2007 05:28:35 PM new
Bear,
Can't defend BUSHY'S blunders so the fool tries to change the subject.
Hey bear check out the vote in Congress today.
02/16/07 Reuters: Four bodies found in Mosul, 20 bodies found in Baghdad
Four dead bodies were found on Thursday in the northern city of Mosul, police said. Three of them were policemen...Twenty bodies were found in Baghdad on Thursday, police said.
IN 2008 BUSHY WILL RETIRE TO HIS TEXAS RANCH IN DISGRACE.
posted on February 17, 2007 05:48:53 AM new
2/17/07 update on BUSHY'S IRAQ INVASION.
3,133 Dead American Troops in Bushy's failed Iraq invasion up 4.
MORE GOOD AMERICAN LIVES GONE EVERYDAY ALL BECAUSE OF OUR COMMANDER AND FAILURE BUSHY.
AMERICA HAS 23,417 WOUNDED TROOPS
02/17/07 Reuters: Two headless bodies found in the Tigris River near Suwayra
Police said they found the headless bodies of two men dressed in civilian clothes in the Tigris River near the town of Suwayra, just south of Baghdad.
posted on February 17, 2007 06:43:36 AM new
One of the hardest things for me to try and grasp is WHY people like 'waco' want to give a VICTORY to those who continue to remove the heads of others....rather than WANT to see THEM taken down....eliminated. tsk tsk tsk
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Also disturbs me that 'waco' ONLY gives part of the news about deaths and injuries....but NEVER posts anything positive about the war....nor our soldiers successes.
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AP Top Stories at 9:l5 AM this morning:
BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) -- A suicide car bomber rammed into a crowded market in northern Iraq moments after a booby-trapped vehicle exploded Saturday, killing at least nine people and injuring 60, police said.
The back-to-back blasts in the oil hub of Kirkuk contrasted with a lull in major violence in Baghdad as U.S. and Iraqi forces try to regain control from gangs and militias in the capital.
"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."
posted on February 17, 2007 08:33:01 AM new
Yes, imo, a lull in the murders IS progress.
It's the beginning of our SURGE that you anti-war, anti-Bushites whine about all the time.
Sounds to me like making SOME progress upsets those like you who WANT to see America FAIL. tsk tsk tsk
"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."
posted on February 17, 2007 09:30:50 AM new
It's not that anyone wants to see America fail, nor do they ever wish to see more of the troops or the innocent Iraqis killed or injured and billions more dollars wasted away. Anyone that thinks like that would then believe that the majority of their country who is not in agreement with the war wants to see their country fail and that's just foolish.
I think the problem is that there are those who view Bush and his government as 'America'. Since the majority of Americans are not in agreement with what Bush has done or what he plans to do it becomes quite clear that he is not a representation of America. He is only an incompetent leader who became power happy and obviously didn't know what he was doing so should be stopped before doing something worse than he's already done.
posted on February 17, 2007 12:27:24 PM new
I couldn't disagree MORE if I wanted to.
We, as Americans either want to ADMIT DEFEAT or we don't. THAT is the issue here, imo.
To admit DEFEAT as the far left wants us to do is NOT what the majority of Americans want done.
They're tired of this war dragging out...they're tired of all the money it's costing....
...but only the IGNORANT would believe MOST Americans would want us to ADMIT DEFEAT to the muslim TERRORISTS.
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Senate Gridlocked on Iraq Troop Buildup
Saturday, February 17, 2007
WASHINGTON — The Senate gridlocked on the Iraq war in a sharply worded showdown on Saturday as Republicans foiled a Democratic attempt to rebuke President Bush over his deployment of 21,500 additional combat troops.
The vote was 56-34. That was six short of the 60 needed to advance the measure, which is identical to a nonbinding resolution that Democrats pushed through the House on Friday.
"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
[ edited by Linda_K on Feb 17, 2007 12:36 PM ]
posted on February 17, 2007 05:00:20 PM new
LIAR_K,
Is the post below about WW-2 you made only 4 days ago the kind of good news from the Iraq Civil War you just spoke about?
We all remember your posts about Iraq War good news and want to see more from you.
We all remember your good news posts about Iraqi schools, electricity, water plus what about all the rebuilding that is being done to rebuild Iraq?.
To bad to-day the insurgents are killing the teachers and student shutting off electricity and water and blowing up markets and buildings not to mention stealing 8 to 10 billion of our tax dollars.
LIAR_K posted this 4 days ago as an attempt to change the focus off the Iraqi Civil War.
Henri-Chapelle (7,992, 450 MIA, 5,600 removed from a temporary cemetery
at this site and returned to US for permanent burial ) http://www.abmc.gov/cemeteries/cemeteries/hc.php
posted on February 17, 2007 05:19:15 PM new
BTW LIAR_K,
With Bushy's "SURGE" just starting I have started a new post about the Iraq Civil War.
The new heading is called,
IRAQ WAR UPDATE "THE SURGE"
Its a clean sheet and good place for you to start posting your Iraq good news posts.
We all need good news about Iraq.
Meanwhile I will continue to post the FACTS I have been posting about American Troop casualties,wounded and Tax Dollars spent in Iraq.
If you find any of my facts incorrect or similar to the LIES you post, please point them out to everyone who takes the time to read about the bad or good news from the 4th year old Iraq Civil War.
posted on February 18, 2007 01:13:22 PM newRice: Baghdad plan off to a good start
UPI
Feb. 17, 2007 at 7:02AM
U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice visited Baghdad Saturday, where she said a new security plan was "off to a good start."
Rice said the timing of the plan aimed at quelling sectarian violence in the Iraqi capital "was not ever intended to be a single day, but to ramp up over time," the Washington Post reported.
Rice met with about 250 U.S. soldiers and diplomats at the U.S Embassy, where she seemed to speak of the U.S. Senate's scheduled vote Saturday on a nonbinding resolution voicing disapproval over President George Bush's plan to sent more troops to Iraq.
"Some do not think this war was the right war to fight," she said, the Post reported. "Some believe we in the administration haven't fought it quite right."
But she told the troops and embassy staff that their work in Iraq is "noble" and necessary," the Post reported.
Rice was also scheduled to meet with Iraqi officials.
Front Page > UPI Page
"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."
posted on February 18, 2007 01:49:41 PM new
"What's Gone RIGHT in Iraq"
Let Smith and other critics visit Iraq and talk to Iraqis who are:
organizing for democracy, development,
and human rights.
Let them talk to the families that lived in constant, humiliating fear under Baathist rule.
Let them see some of the roughly 300 mass graves of opponents of the regime who were brutally slaughtered in the hundreds of thousands.
[b]Then they will find out who the devil really was[b].
With that as a preface, let me get to the point, what's gone right in Iraq?
This much is obvious:
Saddam Hussien, the real devil, is out.
Here it helps to remember that Saddam himself was more dangerous and destructive than any weapon of mass destruction, which we know for a fact he was obsessively trying to get his hands on one.
He started two major wars, costing an estimated million lives.
He hosted and aided 23 international terrorist groups,
initiated ethnic cleansing in which at least 200,000 Kurds have been murdered
and an estimated 800,000 were forced to leave their homeland, and
killed as many as 300,000 Shiites following the failed uprising of 1991.
It is hard to name any common value that Saddam has not violated during his nightmarish rule.
Saddam was a time bomb that threatened the entire region and indeed the international community.
He had to be defused, and should have been deposed a long time ago.
Thanks to the United States and its allies that Saddam, "the butcher of Baghdad" is today no longer among us, residing at different address.
Nor is this all - "much more good news is coming out of Iraq. But, unfortunately, in our post-modern media culture, good news is no news while bad news sells: "If it bleeds, it leads"¯.
To be sure, when a gigantic generator comes on line in Baghdad,
when new industries, factories,
hotels, and
shops are coming online, when schools,
hospitals and
health services are being renovated, and
when major investment is being undertaken to improve water and sanitation standards,
there are no mentions of them in any major news media, nonetheless they are important events for the Iraqis.
Often overlooked is the Kurdish region of Iraq, which has undergone a peaceful, democratic transformation, setting an example in democracy building for the entire Middle East.
Kurdistan operates as a virtually self-sustaining democratic and economically functional state governed by the rule of law, including an elected parliament, independent judiciary, education system, and free media, as well as being supportive of women's rights/education and minority rights.
Another important success story for Iraqis is the crackdown on the Mahdi army, led by the rebel Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, who refused to play by nonviolent, peaceful rules of the democratic game and wanted to shoot his way into power.
According to President Jalal Talabani, now, al-Sadr is hidding in Iran, reported by Washington Post.
The Sunni insurgents-cum-terrorists are neither an essentially large problem, and the fall of Fallujah within six days, which was unparalleled in history of counterinsurgency warfare, is in itself a proof that they lack popular support, and their ability to strike would consequently diminish.
But over the long run, it will be democratic Iraq that could defeat Islamic fascists in Iraq once and for all.
One particular paranoiac fantasy should be discounted: that terrorists, by suicide bombings, are going to defeat the United States and democratic Iraq.
No, the terrorists cannot win in a very vital country with direct access to the world's energy reserves. I am even prepared to say that Iraq will be the first building block of a new democratic Middle East.
"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
[ edited by Linda_K on Feb 18, 2007 01:52 PM ]
