posted on January 9, 2007 08:35:36 AM new
But, but, but wasn't it a short while ago that SOMEONE insisted things were getting SO much better in Iraq ?
Do you think that with georgie's "new plan" they'll come flocking back ?
From BBC:
Last Updated: Tuesday, 9 January 2007, 11:24 GMT
Iraqi voices: Escaping abroad
The United Nations estimates two million Iraqis have fled to neighbouring countries to escape sectarian violence. It's estimated that 50,000 Iraqis flee the country every month.
Many of them choose Syria and Jordan, where they often face extreme hardship. Their refugee status gives them no automatic benefits.
posted on January 9, 2007 08:47:09 AM new
UN makes $60m Iraq refugee appeal
A total of 1.7 million people have been displaced within Iraq
The United Nations' refugee body has appealed for $60m (£30.8m, 45m euros) in emergency aid for those fleeing violence in Iraq.
One in eight of Iraqis have now left their homes, with up to 50,000 people leaving each month, the UNHCR said.
It said the exodus was the largest long-term movement since the displacement of the Palestinians after the creation of Israel in 1948.
Syria, Jordan, Egypt and Lebanon are hosting most of the country's refugees.
See map showing Iraqi migration
"The longer this conflict goes on, the more difficult it becomes for the hundreds of thousands of people displaced," UNHCR head Antonio Guterres said.
The agency said that about 12% of Iraqis had fled their homes due to the violence that has spread through the country since the 2003 US-led invasion.
But it also said that many had left long before the current conflict began.
Acute poverty
The UNHCR estimates that the number of Iraqis living beyond the country's borders as refugees stands at two million and a further 1.7 million live within the borders as displaced people.
But it warns the number of internally displaced - those forced to leave their homes but not the country - could reach 2.7 million by the end of the year.
Unremitting violence in Iraq will likely mean continued mass internal and external displacement
Antonio Guterres
UNHCR Chief
Iraqi refugees' stories
Of those who have fled Iraq, the UNHCR estimates that up to one million Iraqis are living in Syria; up to 700,000 in neighbouring Jordan; between 20,000 and 80,000 in Egypt and up to 40,000 in Lebanon.
Many of these refugees live in conditions of acute poverty and the agency says that there is growing evidence of women turning to prostitution.
In Syria, for example, almost a third of Iraqi refugee children do not go to school.
The agency has also urged neighbouring countries who are hosting refugees to keep their borders open because Iraq's continuing violence will fuel further floods of refugees.
"Unremitting violence in Iraq will likely mean continued mass internal and external displacement affecting much of the surrounding region," Mr Guterres said.""""
I can't seem to find how much money the U.S. sends to aid these refugees...but with the complete lack of oversight or accounting for money( YOUR TAX DOLLARS) sent to Iraq ...I guess I won't find an answer
posted on January 9, 2007 09:47:22 AM new
For those who insist how much better it is there, I'd like to see them trade their home for one over there and allow the Iraqi family to live here in their home. It would make a great reality show and something I'd probably watch. I wonder how long they would last? Drama, comedy........ the works.
posted on January 9, 2007 10:02:49 AM new
Good idea, Kiara!!!
I wonder how many in here would be willing to do that?
Afterall, they insist things are so wonderful in Iraq, they should jump at the chance to live there!
And they worship and adore the people our troops are dying for so they should welcome them into their homes....this would certainly help those Iraqi refugees who are fleeing Iraq(THE Vacation Destination of the Middle East) by the millions!
posted on January 9, 2007 10:39:45 AM new
"For those who insist how much better it is there, I'd like to see them trade their home for one over there and allow the Iraqi family to live here in their home. It would make a great reality show and something I'd probably watch. I wonder how long they would last? Drama, comedy........ the works."
Well...I'd like to see the same from you. AFTER we did as you want to see done. [b]Let's see you live there and watch and be involved in the SLAUGHTER that WILL take place IF we were to leave now. Giving a VICTORY to the terrorists.
You could enjoy that 'scene' as well. A repeat of what your ilk caused to happen when we left VN.
"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 January 9, 2007 11:10:37 AM new
""Let's see you live there and watch and be involved in the SLAUGHTER that WILL take place IF we were to leave now. """
LOL! I asked first!
SOME still deny the slaughter that has taken place and continues to take place at an escalating pace !! Just can't put themselves where their mouth is
Only a very small minority suggest that we leave immediately....MOST (Democrats and Republicans) favor a slow withdrawal as IRAQIs take responsibility.
In case some haven't noticed...the situation is getting worse under bush ...the Non-plan isn't working.
posted on January 9, 2007 11:19:29 AM new
You're just going to have to wait until tomorrow when our CIC speaks about what HE'S decided to do.
"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 January 9, 2007 12:04:35 PM new
Linda_K, it wasn't me sitting here for the last four years calling for more of this mess and my reality knows better than to go over there. And I had nothing at all to do with what happened in Vietnam so you can leave that out too when you label me trying to point fingers to cover another mess that I wasn't responsible for.
As far as Iraq, you've spent hours trying to convince everyone how great it is there now. I suggested before that you go over and report but this is much better. You'd be opening your heart and home to those less fortunate while you have the good fortune to experience exactly all the good things that you've claimed your country has brought to Iraq. Think of it as an adventure. You're not afraid are you?
posted on January 9, 2007 12:44:42 PM new
You have absolutely lost your mind, kiara.
I NEVER said any such thing and you know it.
Continue LYING...you're almost as good as helen is at lying.
And I do get sick of you, as a Canadian telling ME that our Nation should ADMIT DEFEAT and give a VICTORY to terrorists.
Yes, I sure do.
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from yesterdays Patriot Post
"Military success on the ground now demands that we expand the rules of engagement to allow our troops to shoot more of the jihadists, disarm the militias, train even more Iraqis troops to take over security more quickly, and seal the Syrian and Iranian borders."
"This solution, of course, is easier said than done. The military must use more force against those who are destroying Iraqi democracy at precisely the time the American public has become exasperated with both the length and human cost of the war."
"Imagine this war as a sort of grotesque race. The jihadists and sectarians win if they can kill enough Americans to demoralize us enough that we flee before Iraqis and Afghans stabilize their newfound freedom. They lose if they can't."
"Prosperity, security and liberty are the death knell to radical Islam."
"It's that elemental.
Victor Davis Hanson
"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 January 9, 2007 01:06:55 PM new
The news yesterday reported that the U.S. AirForce had bomb areas where suspected TERRORISTS were in Africa.
This is NOT a war limited to IRAQ. It's a war against GLOBAL terrorists.
It appears to me, sadly, that some on the left haven't a CLUE as to what is going on and all they care about is blaming this President for fighting terrorism.
I think they need to be able to look out a little further than the length of their noses. And see what ANY American president is going to be dealing with.....hopefully fighting against most likely... for generations to come.
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Printed in the Wall Street Journals editoral section....taken from the website REALCLEARpolitics.
Hopefully just a couple of them can get a clue for a change.
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Why They Fight
And what it means for us.
BY PETER WEHNER
Tuesday, January 9, 2007 12:01 a.m. EST
President Bush has said that the war against global jihadism is more than a military conflict; it is the decisive ideological struggle of the 21st century.
We are still in the early years of the struggle.
The civilized world will either rise to the challenge and prevail against this latest form of barbarism, or grief and death will visit us and other innocents on a massive scale.
Given the stakes involved in this war and how little is known, even now, about what is at the core of this conflict, it is worth reviewing in some detail the nature of our enemy--including disaggregating who they are (Shia and Sunni extremists), what they believe and why they believe it, and the implications of that for America and the West.
Islam in the World Today
The enemy we face is not Islam per se; rather, we face a global network of extremists who are driven by a twisted vision of Islam.
These jihadists are certainly a minority within Islam--but they exist, they are dangerous and resolute, in some places they are ascendant, and they need to be confronted and defeated.
It's worth looking at Islam more broadly. It is the second-largest religion in the world, with around 1.3 billion adherents. Islam is the dominant religion throughout the Middle East, North Africa, Central Asia, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Indonesia, which alone claims more than 170 million adherents. There are also more than 100 million Muslims living in India.
"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 Jan 9, 2007 01:14 PM ]
posted on January 9, 2007 01:16:41 PM new
Linda, now you want to deny all those 'Good news from Iraq' topics where you tried to tell Kraft and me that reconstruction was going great and we only had bad news from MSM and you tried to convince us that electricity was up, etc and that the Iraqis had it so much better now than under Saddam? That's what I was referring to.
And I do get sick of you, as a Canadian telling ME that our Nation should ADMIT DEFEAT and give a VICTORY to terrorists.
You have me mixed up with someone else when the voices talk to you because I have never said that. If you really believed I said that you would be able to support it with a link. Try harder.
posted on January 9, 2007 01:27:54 PM new
That's NOT what you said in the post I responded to kiara.....it's your little TWIST [as usual] of what I've said.
Yes, I sure did post many threads about ALL the "good" things that were happening in Iraq. Were they FALSE???? NOPE...they were true.
I've repeatedly stated that what the wackos refuse to acknowledge is that these problems are NOT happening in ALL of Iraq....but rather just three or four areas there.
The LEFT REFUSES to acknowledge that MOST, the majority of areas in Iraq were and some still are experiencing a MUCH different situation than the three or four areas are.
But the wackos who want America to leave the Iraqi people there to be SLAUGHTERED, like you kiara, only focus on the negative that has gone on.
Imo, you're nothing more than cowards, defeatists, against America succeeding, and the list of negatives I see you as supporting is VERY very long.
It's people like you that forced our failure in VN....and now you're doing the exact same thing.
Yes, we were building and re-constructing many areas of Iraq. You chose to DENY the FACTS.
You're nothing but a NEGATIVE defeatist who would like to see nothing more than an American DEFEAT.
Well...I don't agree with one position you take. And it wouldn't matter to me if a DEMOCRATIC president had made these same decisions about this war in Afghanistan and Iraq...I'd STILL be supporting them.
Just as most ALL our democratic leaders did...until things get a little harder....then they want to RETREAT....
Thank God our founding fathers didn't feel that way as we were fighting for our independence from England. Thank God all our Presidents haven't felt that way during WWI or WWII.
It's people like you kiara, that ROT America from the inside and to me are NO different than our muslim enemies.
"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 January 9, 2007 01:44:29 PM new
And again, I agree with EVERY single thing this PRO-AMERICAN said about the left.
I see it as the TRUTH of the situation American now finds itself in....with the liberal left siding with our enemies against us. \
I can only be so very thankful that not ALL the dems agree with the radical left when it comes to what we should do now.
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THE TOP 10 WAYS THE LEFT ENABLES TERRORISM
1. Articles from clueless academics like Cole focus on past policy mistakes from previous administrations (both Democrat and Republican). Those backward thinking poseurs, Cole among them, actively undermine current policy that corrects the philosophical and ethical underpinnings of those mistakes; as well as to generally undermine and discredit our country as a whole.
2. Ex-presidents (also here and here) ; as well as president wannabes indulge their narcissistic longings and place any common sense they might have on hold. These pseudo-patriotic bozos (or summer soldiers, if you will) gratuitously attack the current administration's policies for personal gain. They do not offer any alternative plan--except for surrender, of course--but feel it is perfectly appropriate in the middle of a war to offer their worthless opinions and enable the terrorists we are waging war against.
3. News articles from the MSM that, with pathological hysteria, regularly sensationalize military deaths in Iraq--the lowest number of war fatalities from any war that the US has ever fought. New milestones are invented every day to undermine the war effort and to advance the antiwar, anti-US, leftist agenda.
In the link above, the subtext of the article suggests that if military deaths in Iraq exceed 9/11 then the war is a failure! Aren't you glad these editors and journalists weren't around in early 1942, when the death toll in WWII would have surpassed Pearl Harbor? We would all be speaking German or Japanese now.
4. The UN calls for a cease-fire in Somalia --immediately after Ethiopian troops begin to crush the militant, murderous religious fanatics of Al Qaeda. What does the UN care that these fanatics were trying to institute another taliban-like reign on the hapless citizens of Somalia?
About their atrocities, the UN has nothing to say. Just as they have very little to say about Darfur; just as they have little to say about Hezbollah and the Palestinian aggression since they are too busy condemning Israel and the US.
5. The abject failure on the part of the press to report on the economic successes and booming economy in Iraq.
Outside of Baghdad things aren't so grim as the MSM would have you believe, but to put the violence in perspective would be contrary to the official leftist template that desperately needs Bush and the U.S. to fail in Iraq.
6. The deliberate and opportunistic distortion of articles such as this one, which puts words into a newly dead ex-president's mouth in an attempt to discredit the current president. Pathetic, but nevertheless effective. Everyone sees the Post article--but who will notice this one that put's the words in context?
7. There are over 150,000 individual troops in Iraq. Are we now to poll them to decide if every military decision in a war meets with their approval? How insane is that? But once again, it serves to shore up the MSM and left's socialist template of of the poor, oppressed U.S. military personnel; that is when they aren't promoting the alternative template that U.S. military personnel themselves are oppressive, barbaric and murderous tyrants.
8. The rage and vituperative onslaught against this man--one of their own; and their vice-presidential candidate in 2000--who dares to think outside their ideological box when the welfare of the U.S. is at stake.
The Islamofascists know they can always count on the brain-impaired Kos Kidz and the dementors of the DU to support their strategic objectives.
9. The ongoing distortions from the many crooks and liars of the left blogsphere in their delusional attempts to convince themselves that the real "enemy of civilization" is George W. Bush and not the terrorist fanatics blowing people up all over the globe.
This is certainly very brave of them (i.e., just like those courageous Dixie Chicks who have suffered a loss of --gasp!--fame and box office receipts when they dared to criticize the tyrannical Bush)--speaking "truth to power" and all.
As you might imagine, their rantings are the nourishment and soul food that actively enables the real fascists and theocrats --but the left gets to feel good about themselves, and that hallucinatory sense of moral and intellectual superiority they experience is all that matters in their little bubble.
Check out this roundup of leftist hysteria at Gateway Pundit over the execution of Saddam Hussein by the Iraqis. It was much the same when Zarqawi was killed by US forces; and they will undoubtedly howl in disbelief and rage when news of Osama's demise is certain.
Let me be perfectly clear:
THEY DO NOT WANT THE US TO WIN IN IRAQ OR THE WAR ON TERROR.
They sell their country out regularly because they are so blinded by hate for George Bush. This promulgation of this kind of mindless rot that erodes the country from within is just as effective as any suicide bomber.
It must please the enemy to no end that they have so many willing allies working for them right here, right now.
10. Last but not least, don't take it from me--just listen to what the head honcho of Al Qaeda says. As Al Qaeda sees it, "the enemy of my enemy is my friend" and it justifiably considers the recent antics of idiotish Democrats (who constantly seek to discredit their mortal enemy Bush by undermining the Iraq war, as well as the larger war with Islamofascist thugs like Al Qaeda)as somewhat helpful to their plan for world domination.
The Democratic Party, the offical mouthpiece of the lunatic left these days, is so far gone in its narcissistic indulgences that it is wholly unable to step back and consider how their behavior has made this country weak and vulnerable to homicidal organizations like Al Qaeda.
For a litle bit of cheap glory they can pander to their leftist base, they are perfectly happy to give Al Qaeda and other terrorist groups the ammunition they need to continue their campaign against civilization. Hence their opposition to every single initiative by the current administration to monitor and thwart terrorist planning.
"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 January 9, 2007 01:57:22 PM newIt's people like you.... people like you....
Yup, rant on without a single link to back any of your claims because none exist and you have no idea what 'people like me' ever think.
Continue on, Linda_k..... always makes me smile when my one little comment can hit such a deep nerve with you because you know I'm right about you. I realize it pisses you off bigtime that Vendio allows someone to post their opinions from Canada too because you keep mentioning it over and over so it must be a huge thorn in your side.
Don't worry, so far your leader won't make you trade your home for one in Iraq. But would you open your home to an Iraqi refugee family just to show how much you support this cause? Hmmmm?
posted on January 9, 2007 02:03:55 PM new
MORE hot air...from ol. 'admit defeat America'....kiara.
I have stated my position on providing links/proof before.
I don't waste my time giving proof to IDIOTS who I have NO respect for. Who have absolutely NO CREDIBILITY with me.
I do, and HAVE, provided proof for those I respect when it's asked for.
I don't like the double standards the left has tried to enforce here.
When they do it for me....I will do it for them.
He11 can't even get you guys to answer questions...but you have the GALL to demand proof all the time. But I've come to the opinion that you DON'T because you CAN'T.
One would do nothing else but spend their time proving you wrong.
Play your games with someone who has respect for your anti-American positions kiara. I'm not one of them.
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"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 Jan 9, 2007 02:08 PM ]
posted on January 9, 2007 02:07:41 PM new
Lie and then cut and run when the going gets tough and you don't want to admit the truth. New year same old same old.......
posted on January 9, 2007 02:12:21 PM new
I'm not running away....are you hallucinating AGAIN????
I'm right here....and I'm calling a spade a spade.
Don't like it? That's your problem.
And MY CIC will be the one deciding what America is going to do now.
Not the wacko liberals who would like nothing better than to see us admit defeat.
Even our Congress doesn't feel that way.
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"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 Jan 9, 2007 02:15 PM ]
posted on January 9, 2007 02:28:36 PM new
Not being able to provide links to claims you've made and then saying you don't want to waste your time showing proof (because you will never have any) and not being willing to state whether you'd open your home to a refugee family is the same as cutting and running to me. But that's okay, I understand completely, especially when you pepper the posts with smileys trying to cover up your true intent.
posted on January 9, 2007 02:32:01 PM new
Here's an update on our strike in Africa
From the NYT yet....lol
U.S. Airstrike Aims at Qaeda Cell in Somalia
By DAVID S. CLOUD
Published: January 9, 2007
WASHINGTON, Jan. 8 — A United States Air Force gunship carried out a strike Sunday night against suspected operatives of Al Qaeda in southern Somalia, a senior Pentagon official said Monday night.
The attack by an AC-130 gunship, which is operated by the Special Forces Command, is believed to have produced multiple casualties, the official said. It was not known Monday night whether the casualties included members of a Qaeda cell that American officials have long suspected was hiding in Somalia.
Special Forces units operating from an American base in Djibouti are conducting a hunt for Qaeda operatives who have been forced to flee Mogadishu, the Somali capital, since Islamic militants were driven from there by an Ethiopian military offensive last month.
The American attack was first reported by CBS News.
The Special Forces attack is the first military action in Somalia that Pentagon officials have acknowledged since American troops departed the lawless country in the wake of the infamous "Black Hawk Down" episode in 1993, when 18 American soldiers were killed in street fighting in Mogadishu.
American officials have long suspected that a handful of Qaeda suspects responsible for the 1998 embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania have been hiding inside Somalia, a country that has not had a central government since 1991.
The search for the terrorist suspects has driven American policy toward Somalia for several years.
Earlier this year, the Central Intelligence Agency began making cash payments to a group of Somali warlords who pledged to help hunt down members of the Qaeda cell.
After Islamist militias took control of Mogadishu in the summer, officials in Washington charged that the Islamists had ties to the terror suspects, and made demands for their handover to American custody.
The Ethiopian military offensive that began last month recently drove the Islamists from the seaside Somali capital, raising hopes within Washington that the Qaeda operatives might surface as they fled the protection of the Islamists.
The Islamists have retreated to areas around the southern port city of Kismayo. Ethiopian officials have said they have intelligence reports that members of the Qaeda cell were hiding near the city.
The AC-130 gunship is a heavily armed propeller plane that, because of its slow speed, operates primarily at night and can direct an immense barrage of gunfire onto a target as it circles overhead.
The attack against suspected Qaeda operatives is the sort of targeted operation that senior Bush administration officials have been pressing the Special Operation Command, based in Tampa, Fla., to undertake in recent years.
But officials have said that Special Operations forces have had difficulty carrying out targeted strikes in the past because of the difficulty establishing the whereabouts of wanted terrorists or getting forces in place when a suspected militant is located.
The Central Intelligence Agency has killed a small number of suspected Qaeda members, using a pilotless drone armed with a missile. Among them were five people killed in Yemen in 2002.
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But to listen to the radical left HERE....this administration has been doing NOTHING to catch those responsible for 9-11.....AQ.
Shows how much they aren't aware of when they bash this President. They're CLUELESS about what has been going on. TOTALLY CLUELESS.
"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 January 9, 2007 02:36:08 PM new
I see I need to repeat myself AGAIN to the 'admit defeat, America' Canadian.
tsk tsk tsk
WHEN you EVER require that from EVERYONE kiara...I'll play your game.
UNTIL then....I don't care what delusional liberals say...or think. I enjoy posts from RATIONAL, NORMAL, people and you most CERTAINLY aren't one of them.
To me, you're in "waco"peepas league....the uninformed.
"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 January 9, 2007 02:54:03 PM newWHEN you EVER require that from EVERYONE kiara...I'll play your game.
Linda_K no one else but you is claiming I've said things I have never said so there is no reason for me to make requirements from them. It's that simple.
posted on January 9, 2007 03:43:03 PM new
But, but, but wasn't it a short while ago that SOMEONE insisted things were getting SO much better in Iraq ?
Do you think that with georgie's "new plan" they'll come flocking back ?
From BBC:
Last Updated: Tuesday, 9 January 2007, 11:24 GMT
Iraqi voices: Escaping abroad
The United Nations estimates two million Iraqis have fled to neighbouring countries to escape sectarian violence. It's estimated that 50,000 Iraqis flee the country every month.
Many of them choose Syria and Jordan, where they often face extreme hardship. Their refugee status gives them no automatic benefits.
posted on January 9, 2007 04:03:03 PM newI see it that you have continually CHOSEN to ignore what others HAVE said about you in the past.
Linda_K, I chose to ignore the drivel that some have said in the past because they never met me and didn't know anything about me. Anyone who doesn't have a clue about me and my life, including you...... a bitter old lady down in Arkansas, can make up things and say things about me on a chat board but it's the people that know me in RL that count and that's what matters in the end.
It was amusing that my two little lines this morning would set you off for the whole day though. Kinda hit home, EH?
Soooooo........ about those refugees from Iraq sharing your home? Will you show your support for the cause you believe in? Or how about taking in one of the soldiers that's now forced to live in his car after coming home from Iraq? Hmmmmm?
posted on January 9, 2007 04:07:57 PM new
How long has it been since I've posted a 'good news' thread here mingo???
You live in the past.
And prove to all of us that those Iraqi's aren't FLEEING because they see the NEW congress wants to take away our armed forces from helping their country.
Like....oooppps the dems are in control now...they want the troops removed...brought home...we'd better get the heck out of here while we're still alive.
That's how I see their desire....to run to safety...the DEMS are in control and we KNOW our lives don't matter to them....because they're willing to leave us here to DEFEND ourselves when WE CAN'T.
"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 January 9, 2007 04:11:46 PM new
I'll also point out to all willing to acknowledge the TRUTH.....
THIS president is cleaning up the business that happened during BOTH the carter AND clinton administration. HE'S dealing with the terrorists who fought us.....so unlike the two cowards who didn't have the GUTS to take care of them when they pulled their garbage.
NOPE....FIVE terrorist attacks during the clinton administration....and now THIS administration is going after them.
They're taking care of business all the while the ignorant liberals here continuing spouting their lies about this administration NOT going after AQ.
"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 January 9, 2007 04:42:54 PM new
I have a feeling that no matter what happens from now onwards, the neo-cons will continue to blame the Democrats and the Iraqis and the previous administration for it because they'll do anything to hide their shame for encouraging the war and for being in denial for so long about what a mess it turned out to be.... even though it was all predicted by those that understood from the beginning what would happen when a country invades another and starts a war without plans and without enough troops.
posted on January 9, 2007 06:12:49 PM new
"""I have a feeling that no matter what happens from now onwards, the neo-cons will continue to blame the Democrats and the Iraqis and the previous administration for it because they'll do anything to hide their shame for encouraging the war and for being in denial for so long about what a mess it turned out to be.... even though it was all predicted by those that understood from the beginning what would happen when a country invades another and starts a war without plans and without enough troops."""
Well said, Kiara !!!!
linduh, the Iraqis just didn't start leaving Iraq, they were leaving when Saddam was in power, too...but now more and more are leaving in bigger numbers despite being "freed" by the U.S., despite VOTING(a joke), despite all those jobs and new schools and roses and candy ....they're running for their lives.
posted on January 10, 2007 05:08:32 AM new
Who passed this? Oh, ya, the terrorist loving Democrats. LOL!!!!!!!!!! I wonder how many Repugs would have complained about the bill had they been the ones to implement it. Nice try, though, Linda on the Dems enabling terrorists angle.
Democrats in House push through anti-terror package
Updated 1/9/2007 10:11 PM ET
By Mimi Hall, USA TODAY
In their first piece of legislation since assuming control of the House of Representatives for the first time in 12 years, Democrats on Tuesday pushed through sweeping homeland security requirements.
Their bill aims to tighten security at ports and on airplanes, improve emergency planning and prevent future terrorism. It passed 299-128.
"The terrorist threat has not diminished five years after 9/11," said Carie Lemack, a security activist whose mother died in the 2001 terrorist attacks.
The House vote fulfilled a campaign promise by Democrats to enact recommendations made three years ago by the commission that investigated 9/11. "The 9/11 Commission gave us a blueprint for better security, which was not meant to sit on a shelf and collect dust," Rep. Carolyn Maloney, D-N.Y., said.
Some Republicans complained that the bill, which is expected to be considered in the Senate in the next month, was rammed through the House with little debate and no input from them. Others said it would be impossible to implement.
Rep. Jerry Lewis, R-Calif., former chairman of the House Appropriations Committee, chided Democrats for passing a bill "without any indication as to where the money might be coming from." He said "tens of billions of dollars" would be needed, meaning the bill amounted to "a statement of policy that is little more than a press release."
posted on January 10, 2007 07:23:53 AM new
LOL cheryl - They've sure fooled you haven't they?
Notice they made NO mention of actually FUNDING this.
And I've read estimates that it's going to cost apprx. $53 Billion dollars.
Have any idea where they're going to come up with THAT funding? lol
from your own article: "meaning the bill amounted to "a statement of policy that is little more than a press release."
It's a bill to make it LOOK like they're doing something.
Now then....they also said they were going to REDUCE spending. lol
This is what you call REDUCING it? lol
CHA-CHING......one of many....
We'll see how well it 'fairs' in the Senate now. lol
"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 Jan 10, 2007 07:29 AM ]
