Comments on: Turning The Iraq Tide, From The Bottom Up

Former Marine, Author Says The Perspective of Grunts On The Ground, And A Visionary Sunni Sheik, Reversed Course Of War

[jerkytree]

Bush,Cheney,Rumsfeld and Rice.

[cameo35]

.............AND MCCAIN WANTS FOUR MORE YEARS OF WAR , HE''S SENILE "..

[ugot2bfree]

I have one question? How much was Sheik Sattar and his tribe paid by the US to start participating and stop killing US soldiers. From what I have read we are paying each opposing fighter $300 a month to not attack us. In comparison to the US living standard that is equivalent to a person in the US making $50,000 a year. So we went to Iraq to get rid of Hussein and we end up being black mailed by the tribes. Smart move Bush/McCain. It pisses me off to have my leaders get me into a situation where I am being ripped off everyday. Of course those same leaders and their friends are making a fortune off this war.
To all those planning to vote for McCain. Real smart.

[dremn1]

The person below must be really pissed we still have troops in Germany!!


So the troops can come home!!

Wait, what is that you say?? Not until next Jan and next June is what Petraeus, the great surge master himself, wants!!

Gee, and I thought all this talk of winning the surge meant something.

Same old tired lies as the hundreds that preceded it for more than 5 years now.

[summarex]

I tink a lot of you are forgetting that superhuman efforts have been made towards minimizing casualties and violence in the run-up to the US election. This awakening council is essentially a vehicle for routing payoffs to the insurgents in exchange for a few months of inaction. After the election we should see either a flare up in violence or the start of a withdrawal.

[hacker2xy]

The "surge" hasn%u2019t worked. There are no political gains, no political stability, the Iraqi haven%u2019t stood up, and America is still paying 10 billion/week in Iraq. The surge failed.....

[hacker2xy]

Islamic militancy rising in Europe, and who-knows-what in the way of terrorist incidents being prepared in the United States itself. All of these play in the Afghan and Iraqi wars, no less than car bombs in Baghdad and ambushes outside Kandahar. It is all one war, one battlefield. State boundaries mean nothing.

[clestes-2009]

So the troops can come home!!

Wait, what is that you say?? Not until next Jan and next June is what Petraeus, the great surge master himself, wants!!

Gee, and I thought all this talk of winning the surge meant something.

Same old tired lies as the hundreds that preceded it for more than 5 years now.

[hacker2xy]

Success is when we have a stable government in Iraq and they can defend themselves from the Jihadist. Not that hard to figure out.......

[ljb6599]

How will the Irag government respond when they all discover they have been being spied on for years by this country.Not exactly the groundworks for a trusting relationship.Meanwhile 150,000-160,000 U.S.soldiers remain there with no troops coming home until next year.The current Bush administration has set up the democrats if they return to the white house because they will be blamed for increase violence when the troops starting coming home next year.Bush will leave the next administration to end the qugmire in Irag which they started. What a disgrace!!

[kj_mojo]

Interesting insight. The first report about the war I''ve watched which makes sense to me.

[hacker2xy]

,%u201D al-Zawahri said. %u201CIf the American forces leave, they will lose everything. And if they stay, they will bleed to death.%u201D

[hacker2xy]

Also on Saturday, the head of security for Iraq''s Minister of Justice was wounded in an explosion in Baghdad. (reuters)

[hacker2xy]

At least six people were killed and 50 wounded after a suicide car bomber staged a traffic accident as a tactic to draw more victims into the explosion.

The suicide attack happened around midday Sunday at an outdoor market in the city of Tal Afar, an Iraqi Interior Ministry official said.