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[eCorry.com] This is Brilliant!: That’s precisely what the Democratic Party wants America to do in Iraq. Forget the fact that we’ve made remarkable progress under daunting conditions: The Dems are looking to throw the game just to embarrass the Bush administration.
[Clear and Present] A commentary by Ralph Peters that's too good to excerpt: Just set a time-table for our troops to come home and show the world that America is an unreliable ally with no stomach for a fight, no matter the stakes involved. Tell the world that deserting the South Vietnamese and fleeing from Somalia weren't anomalies ”” that's what Americans do.
[Just Waking Up] How to Lose a War: We won't even talk about the effect quitting while we're winning in Iraq might have on the go-to-war calculations of other powers that might want to challenge us in the future. Let's just be good Democrats and prove that Osama bin Laden was right all along: Americans have no stomach for a fight.
[CDR Salamander] When Ralphs attack: They need to declare defeat before the 2006 mid-term elections and ensure a real debacle before 2008 ”” a bloody mess they'll blame on Bush, even though they made it themselves. Let's just be good Democrats and prove that Osama bin Laden was right all along: Americans have no stomach for a fight.
[Healingiraq.blogspot.com] Healing Iraq: Traffic was the same as everyday and no curfew took place contrary to what many predicted, except in Najaf where a truck full of explosives was intercepted by IP and three purported Qaeda members were arrested, one of them a Libyan who had just entered Iraq from Syria and the other two were Iraqis. Overall, I can say that Baghdadis are cautiously optimistic about the new developments, they have postponed their judgement on the government until they sense some real changes on the ground.
[Command-post.org] The Command Post - Iraq: Terrorists and insurgents might be killing both soldier and civilians and sabotaging infrastructure, and the Iraqi and the Coalition security forces might in turn be hunting down the enemies of the new Iraq, but every step towards self-government, every new job created, every new school opened are a small victory against those who would want to turn Iraq's clock back three or 1300 years. Below are some of these stories that often get lost in the fog and smoke of war.
[Talent.senate.gov] Jim Talent : US Senator For Missouri: This will result in increasing stability, the continued emergence of political institutions and economic opportunity, and ever greater Iraqi visibility in the Army and security forces that will free up our troops to concentrate on the likes of Abu al-Zarqawi and other terrorists in Iraq or Afghanistan. After seven intensive days of investigation in Centcom, I am satisfied that we are making progress on all these fronts--that we are winning this battle--and that Iraq will be a successful and substantial decision point in the war against the twisted ideology that was responsible for the death of more than 3,000 of our fellow citizens on Sept 11, 2001.
[Billroggio.com] The Fourth Rail: While Iraq’s defense minister reported fighters fled from Husaybah to Syria at the beginning of the operation, military intelligence “indicates some insurgents might have abandoned Husaybah once Iraqi Army soldiers and U.S. Forces began clearing the city and fled into Karabilah.” The Army Times noted two days ago the "insurgents are now squeezed into Karabilah, especially a triangle-shaped part of town ominously nicknamed the Shark Fin." If true, these terrorists are now sitting in a box, hemmed in by the Euphrates River to the north, RCT-2’s assault force to the west, the Marines in the hills outside of Sa'dah to the east, and undoubtedly a screening force to the desert in the south.
[Growabrain.typepad.com] growabrain: War in Iraq Archives: The money, fresh $100 bills shrink-wrapped on pallets, which filled three Blackhawk helicopters, came from oil sales under the UN’s Oil for Food Programme, and had been entrusted by the UN Security Council to the Americans to be spent on behalf of the Iraqi people. The CPA didn’t properly check out the courier before handing over the cash, and, as a result, according to an audit report by the CPA’s inspector general, ”˜there was an increased risk of the loss or theft of the cash.’ Paul Bremer, the American pro-consul in Baghdad until June last year, kept a slush fund of nearly $600 million cash for which there is no paperwork: $200 million of this was kept in a room in one of Saddam’s former palaces, and the US soldier in charge used to keep the key to the room in his backpack, which he left on his desk when he popped out for lunch.
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