Mission accomplished

[MMike]

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2003268541_iraqperson21.html

If you had asked a year ago whether I would consider leaving Iraq, I would have said maybe, but without enthusiasm. Now it's a definite yes. Things are going from bad to worse, and I can't see any light at the end of the tunnel.

[valve bouncer]

Those ungrateful bastards. Don't they know they're free? Anyone still think invading Iraq was a good idea? Love to hear your justifications as it seems all that's happened is that things became worse. 6000plus civilians dead in Baghdad over July and August. I don't even hear about the US military deaths anymore. Is that because they've stopped or that they're so common place now that they don't rate a mention?
To think the frothers laughed in derision when comparisons to Vietnam were made. Not so funny now I bet.

[MMike]

http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/09/20/iraq.main/index.html

The report said a reduction in casualties in Baghdad between July and August may reflect "a degree of improved security" as a result of Operation Together Forward -- a security clampdown conducted by U.S. and Iraqi forces in several city neighborhoods.

6600 in two months is a reduction......

[ALEXIS_DH]

by reduction they mean "less actual dead people" or there is a hidden "change in methodology" somewhere?

[valve bouncer]

by reduction they mean "less actual dead people" or there is a hidden "change in methodology" somewhere?
They only count people killed by guns. Those killed by bombs aren't counted.

[Old Man G Funk]

They only count people killed by guns. Those killed by bombs aren't counted.
That's true of the US count, but I think this is the UN count. Did the UN do a count of its own, or did they just use the US report?

[BurlyShirley]

I really would like to see the world step up and give us a hand getting things in order. Its obviously going to take forever otherwise...

[ohio]

I really would like to see the world step up and give us a hand getting things in order. Its obviously going to take forever otherwise...

Good thing we maintained all those diplomatic ties...

[dante]

Don't worry, our "Coalition of the Willing" is doing fine. Croatia just donated 3 more troops, and Ladvia just offered more "moral support".

[BurlyShirley]

Don't worry, our "Coalition of the Willing" is doing fine. Croatia just donated 3 more troops, and Ladvia just offered more "moral support".

Does anyone else giggle when they hear "Latvia?" :biggrin:

[$tinkle]

Does anyone else giggle when they hear "Latvia?" :biggrin:
upper/lower
major/minor

metallica rulez.

[ohio]

by reduction they mean "less actual dead people" or there is a hidden "change in methodology" somewhere?

It's kind of like celebrating our reduction in deficit.

[$tinkle]

harry reid sez:"The military mission [in iraq] has long since been accomplished. "latimes (http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/wire/ats-ap_top12apr23,0,5757151.story)

[N8]

harry reid sez:latimes (http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/wire/ats-ap_top12apr23,0,5757151.story)

well there ya go.

bring 'em on home its all ok now

[BurlyShirley]

hehehe, Latvia

[RenegadeRick]

well there ya go.

bring 'em on home its all ok now

Not for some. Didya see this Craigslist (http://www.craigslist.org/about/best/sfo/309485032.html) posting?


From an Angry Soldier
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Date: 2007-04-10, 1:00PM PDT


I'm having the worst damn week of my whole damn life so I'm going to write this while I'm pissed off enough to do it right.

I am SICK of all this bull**** people are writing about the Iraq war. I am abso-****ing-lutely sick to death of it. What the **** do most of you know about it? You watch it on TV and read the commentaries in the newspaper or Newsweek or whatever god damn yuppie news rag you subscribe to and think you're all such ****ing experts that you can scream at each other like five year old about whether you're right or not. Let me tell you something: unless you've been there, you don't know a god damn thing about it. It you haven't been shot at in that ****ing hell hole, SHUT THE **** UP!

How do I dare say this to you moronic war supporters who are "Supporting our Troops" and waving the flag and all that happy horse ****? I'll tell you why. I'm a Marine and I served my tour in Iraq. My husband, also a Marine, served several. I left the service six months ago because I got pregnant while he was home on leave and three days ago I get a visit from two men in uniform who hand me a letter and tell me my husband died in that ****ing festering sand-pit. He should have been home a month ago but they extended his tour and now he's coming home in a box.

You ****ers and that god-damn lying sack of **** they call a president are the reason my husband will never see his baby and my kid will never meet his dad.

And you know what the most ****ed up thing about this Iraq **** is? They don't want us there. They're not happy we came and they want us out NOW. We ****ed up their lives even worse than they already were and they're pissed off. We didn't help them and we're not helping them now. That's what our soldiers are dying for.

Oh while I'm good and worked up, the government doesn't even have the decency to help out the soldiers whos lives they ruined. If you really believe the military and the government had no idea the veterans' hospitals were so ****ed up, you are a god-damn retard. They don't care about us. We're disposable. We're numbers on a page and they'd rather forget we exist so they don't have to be reminded about the families and lives they ruined while they're sipping their cocktails at another fund raiser dinner. If they were really concerned about supporting the troops, they'd bring them home so their families wouldn't have to cry at a graveside and explain to their children why mommy or daddy isn't coming home. Because you can't explain it. We're not fighting for our country, we're not fighting for the good of Iraq's people, we're fighting for Bush's personal agenda. Patriotism my ass. You know what? My dad served in Vietnam and NOTHING HAS CHANGED.

So I'm pissed. I'm beyond pissed. And I'm going to go to my husband funeral and recieve that flag and hang it up on the wall for my baby to see when he's older. But I'm not going to tell him that his father died for the stupidty of the American government. I'm going to tell him that his father was a hero and the best man I ever met and that he loved his country enough to die for it, because that's all true and nothing will be solved by telling my son that his father was sent to die by people who didn't care about him at all.

**** you, war supporters, George W. Bush, and all the god damn mother ****ers who made the war possible. I hope you burn in hell.

[ohio]

Not for some. Didya see this Craigslist (http://www.craigslist.org/about/best/sfo/309485032.html) posting?

Obviously some pot-smoking hippy.

[BurlyShirley]

What a self-centered bitch.

[$tinkle]

What a self-centered bitch.i think she needs a cindy sheehan scissor, a-la mrs. garrison & allison

[MMike]

i think she needs a cindy sheehan scissor, a-la mrs. garrison & allison

Oh yeah...scissor! Yeah! SCISSOR!!

[N8]

Marine Corporal From A Bunker In Ramadi: “I Got A Message For That Douche Harry Reid” (http://64.13.251.37/2007/04/23/marine-corporal-from-a-bunker-in-ramadi-i-got-a-message-for-that-douche-harry-reid)

[N8]

That's true of the US count, but I think this is the UN count. Did the UN do a count of its own, or did they just use the US report?

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