Comments on: Informants Guide U.S. Troops In Baqouba

Exclusive: U.S. And Iraqi Forces Use New Tactic To Hunt Al Qaeda In Former Stronghold

[mh4cbs1]

More CBS garbage journalism. Sounds like it was written by a third grader.

There was no Al Qaeda in Iraq 5 years ago. Now CBS and Lara Logan want us to believe that they are the main enemy - pure propaganda spoon fed from the White House. Listen to Bush rant and rave:

"Al Qaida is the main enemy for Shia, Sunni and Kurds alike," Bush asserted. In a major speech at the Naval War College he referred to al Qaida at least 27 times, calculated to use lingering outrage over the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.

U.S. military and intelligence officials, however, say that Iraqis with ties to al Qaida are only a small fraction of the threat to American troops. The group known as al Qaida in Iraq didn't exist before the U.S.-led invasion in 2003, didn't pledge its loyalty to al Qaida leader Osama bin Laden until October 2004 and isn't controlled by bin Laden or his top aides.

BUSH LIES and LIES and LIES and LIES... It never stops. JAIL the SOB for LYING us into this DISASTER WAR.

[feelfree1]

CBS_Oliver,

Informative, yet amusing.

Well done!

[feelfree1]

ToolMangler,

If you are looking for a flower-throwing, street-dancing finish to the criminal Bush League debacle in Iraq, I think that you are in for a major disappointment.

How much more blood-treasure-dignity shall we donate to the effort?

[cbs_oliver]

I remember that some of the head guys in Al Qaeda have been reported to say that they want America to stay engaged in Iraq not to leave Iraq.

The informant seems uninformed. :)

[cbs_oliver]

I see that mind reading is also a talent here in America.

I never trust any report or opinion that includes mind reading.

[pwrslm]

Those folks over there doing this want you to "not believe it".....thats why they are a success by manipulating our minds into believing lies and rhetoric.

[cbs_oliver]

I still don't buy it. Previous reports indicated that Al Qaeda was not a significant factor in Iraq.

After a long period of Lara Logan and other journalists going stone cold silent about US soldiers killing anyone, suddenly they are killing people all over the place and all the people they kill everywhere are Al Qaeda.

Furthermore Lara has an "exclusive" from a informer who testifies that Al Qaeda is ruling the area and that his reading of their minds tells him "They want to make the Americans leave so they can occupy Iraq."

Somehow this track record does not seem like journalism.

Something else maybe.

[toldyouso21]

Then the oil is ours, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Turkey and others will not want to try us on any more... (sounds good to me.... any takers?) ;)
Posted by ToolMangler at 10:51 PM : Jun 28, 2007


Sounds like mass murder of a people who initially had done nothing to us. Forget it. We don't need to add genocide to our torture, illegal invasion, occupation, money wasting, WP bombing and concentration camp portfolio. We also don't need to confirm that all we were there for was the oil and everything else was just a lie and a scam.

[toldyouso21]

Could be he is really helping or could be... he strings them along with a few minor victories then allows them to be ambushed in a trap. Probably what happened to that early morning convoy where the 5 were killed and the 3 were taken, with one never found. Nobody could blame the informant for that one since he also was killed...but who is to say he was not a suicide informant who knew he would die that morning but also knew the Americans would trust him and follow him into a trap. We better tread carefully here. These people play games that the average American may not decipher or see the ramifications or cards for --for years. We should never forget the the Fremen in Frank Herbert's "Dune" series were based on these people and others in the region.

Games within games, and Americans do not even know who is on their side, because though Al Qaeda may have indeed killed this informant's brother--Iraqis know that it was America's invasion that allowed Al Qaeda to be there in the first place. They do believe in root cause analysis--which is why they say things like "the friend of my enemy is my enemy" Don't be a sucker, America--peel that onion and see the layers--don't always think because of what you are shown on top--that is what IS.

[toolmangler-2009]

It is the people of Iraq that our forces are killing and attacking, and the people of Iraq have every right to defend themselves, period.
Posted by FeelFree1 at 08:36 PM : Jun 28, 2007

If We stay, the world comdemns us, jihaddist attack us Iran, Saudi Arabia, Turkey and others kill Iraqis (in the guise of freeing them from the grip of foreign invaders.) If we leave, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Turkey and others will massacre the Iraqis (in the guise of stopping the civil war) and take control of the nation while the world condemns US for having left the country defensless with so many enemies nearby. So with that in mind since we are going to be blamed in any situation, maybe we should move our troops to the borders, send every B52 we have to carpet bomb the entire country that our troops won't be in danger any more and take over everything and seal the borders like we should have sealed our own. Then the oil is ours, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Turkey and others will not want to try us on any more... (sounds good to me.... any takers?) ;)

[toolmangler-2009]

Ok CBS. You blabbed your yap and got a bunch of Sheiks killed for 'helping' us. Keep it up and you'll tell Al Qeada where they can find all of our informants. And you wonder why we can't win anything, look in the mirror,
sssshhhheeeeeeeeeeessssshhhhhh!!!!!!!!!

[fredgrad2000]

"More unsubstantiated 'al-Qaeda-in-Iraq' hype from Ms. Logan. She seems to have a one-track mind, and a strong appetite for fiction.

It is the people of Iraq that our forces are killing and attacking, and the people of Iraq have every right to defend themselves, period."
Posted by FeelFree1

Yep....all an illusion - you're a genius!!! Thank you for cutting through all the smoke and bringing us the "truth". Only an idiot doesn't realize that both Iran and Al Qaeda have strong strategic reasons (based on their own warped ideologies) for being in Iraq, killing our troops, and ensuring this regime change does not succeed in replacing a tyranny with a strong Muslim (and worse for Iran, Shiite Muslim) democracy. To ignite and foment a civil war that prevents any American victory long enough to ensure we write our won defeat in the halls of Congress and in the media was their strategy - Al Qaeda wants the propaganda victory and the ability to maintain safe havens in the Sunni areas, especially near the Syrian border; Iran wants to ensure its people don't have a REAL Shiite Muslim democracy next door to inspire it to throw out the terrorist mullahs; and even more important they don't want a victorious, battle-hardened US force next door; free to end its actions as the Central Bank of Terror in the World and its pursuit of nukes. To not KNOW they'd of course be in Iraq trying to make things rough is to not understand those two groups at all and to be unbelievably naive.

[feelfree1]

More unsubstantiated 'al-Qaeda-in-Iraq' hype from Ms. Logan. She seems to have a one-track mind, and a strong appetite for fiction.

It is the people of Iraq that our forces are killing and attacking, and the people of Iraq have every right to defend themselves, period.