Comments on: Iraqi P.M. Lifts 2 U.S. Military Blockades

Al-Maliki Flexes Political Muscle By Winning U.S. Agreement To End Checkpoints

[patriotic9]

tpeks40
Don't you know why we in Iraq.Don't you see how big Oil companies are benifited by increased oil prices due to this war.Also we are giving sucurity to the newly formed RADICAL ISLAMIC GOVT which is taking our tax payed money on the name of rebuilding Iraq to establish a RADICAL ISLAMIC STATE based on the hatred of west and to take weapons from our govt and supply them to their HIZBOLLAH BROTHERS in Lebanon and INSURGENT BROTHERS in Iraq to shoot our soldiers.We are there to make Bin Laden and his Oil rich brothers in Saudi Arabia and rest of Oil rich Middle Eastern countries Extremely rich so they won't be having any financial problem while bying NUKES form North Korea to use them agaisnt us.

[tibu987]

Look, now, even the Iraqi hierarchy do not want us there. Let's pull out,leaving a token force to guard the U.S. Embassy and airport. Nothing else. Bring the troops home. Iraq must now solve their own problems, i.e., the problems we created for them.
As one Baghdad policeman, Haidar Said, said, "Please tell this message. This city has suffered a lot. These are poor people. We want our voice to reach the world".
The U.S. has suffered, the Iraqi's have suffered. Enough is enough.
Bring our troops home now.
Vote on Nov. 7th.
Vote for term limits when possible.

[tpeks40]

We keep putting our soldiers in harms way for what reason? Please remind me why we're in Iraq.

[talkingham]

The first check points they should remove are the ones leading into the green zone. Wonder how he'd like that.

[patriotic9]

ozilot
You gotta understand one thing.The only people who really got benifited from this war are Arabs specially the SAUDIs .Have you forgot that 15 out of 19 hijackers in 9/11 were from Saudi Arabia.Look at the oil prices before this war and Oil prices right now.Do you think all the Suicide Bombers coming form Saudi Arabia into Iraq are against their govt like they show to the world?They are playing with our ignorance and lack of understanding about their cluture.

[alphaa10-2009]

"The Iraqi military forces are not loyal to a neutral Iraqi government. They are loyal to their parties, their militias, their tribes, and those take precedence over everything else here."
(CBS reporter Lara Logan, in Iraq)
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There, in the tightest, most succinct formula, you have the future of Iraq. Formerly held together, after a fashion, with the naked terror of Saddam's police state, the "new Iraq" is a glaring political fiction costing everybody dearly. If the Iraqis cannot aqree from some common political base of both philosophy and practice, we cannot create one for them.

Bush came into office dismissive of "nation building", and while that is sometimes possible, it is doomed from the start without a clear understanding of what the Iraqis are left to work with.

In any case, "liberating" Iraq was not at the top of the Bush list of priorities handed him by his neocon control group. The fact Bush had to scramble to find an alternative rationale for invading a sovereign state, when no WMDs were found, does not make it liberation.

Iraq is the worst of all political postures for the US to adopt, and Bush jumped in blindly, with both feet. We are asked to pay for it every day-- $338b illion, 3,000 dead, 40,000 total wounded, and years of national opportunity wasted on a Bush delusion of power.

[mdmorell]

WHY DON'T WE JUST SATISFY THEM AND US AND SIMPLY LEAVE ALTOGETHER?? THE MAJORITY OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE WANT US OUT OF THERE AND SO DO THEY! JUST LIKE THEY ARE DOING WITH THE CHECK POINTS -- DISMANTLE AND EXIT!! THERE'S NO SHAME IN THIS -- THE SHAME COMES WHEN AMERICANS KEEP DYING FOR WHAT?!

[random_radar]

Actually, the deepest fear I have about the war is that our military and intelligence services are being trained in tactics that will be used to create a military dictatorship here.

Think about it--a coup would require a large infrastructure to control 300 million people. That can't be created overnight, so the perfect way to do it is to occupy a foreign country for practice. This would also allow identifying the dependable sycophants for staffing the future tyranny.

Maybe we are completely missing the meaning when we attribute the war to revenge or oil or stupidity. Maybe the answer is eminently more simple and sinister. Maybe we are building the apparatus for our own imprisonment.

Imagine if America were run like Iraq. The day may be coming. Ridicule me now while you have the chance--soon you may not be able to on pain of death.

[jn122736]

I really enjoy reading comments from all posters whether or not I agree with them. However, there are some postings that have no purpose except to either draw attention or distract from the subject/topic. Such postings are almost always filled with hateful, degrading attacks against an individual, religion, political party or the like.
When you read enough of them you begin to recognize the poster %u2018s name/ID. They are so predictable you don%u2019t need to read their posts; you already know basically what they are going to say. They are so obvious there is no need to list any names/Ids.
I generally treat them like TV commercials and just skip past them.

[angryliberal-2009]

FLASH: McCain Calls On Kerry To Apologize
Tue Oct 31 2006 11:43:14 ET

Senator Kerry owes an apology to the many thousands of Americans serving in Iraq, who answered their country's call because they are patriots and not because of any deficiencies in their education. Americans from all backgrounds, well off and less fortunate, with high school diplomas and graduate degrees, take seriously their duty to our country, and risk their lives today to defend the rest of us in Iraq, Afghanistan, and elsewhere.

They all deserve our respect and deepest gratitude for their service. The suggestion that only the least educated Americans would agree to serve in the military and fight in Iraq, is an insult to every soldier serving in combat, and should deeply offend any American with an ounce of appreciation for what they suffer and risk so that the rest of us can sleep more comfortably at night. Without them, we wouldn't live in a country where people securely possess all their God-given rights, including the right to express insensitive, ill-considered and uninformed remarks.

go to drudgereport.com to hear the latest on Kerry's foot to mouth statements. He actually refused to apologize when he had the chance........

[angryliberal-2009]

Hmmmm, Jonny No wonder you didnt want your transcripts released during the presidential election.

[angryliberal-2009]

Kerry, who graduated two years before Bush, got a cumulative 76 for his four years, according to a transcript that Kerry sent to the Navy when he was applying for officer training school. He received four D's in his freshman year out of 10 courses, but improved his average in later years.

...lol

[angryliberal-2009]

look at John F'n Kerry's college photo.

http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2005/06/07/yale_grades_portray_kerry_as_a_lackluster_student/

"In 1999, The New Yorker published a transcript indicating that Bush had received a cumulative score of 77 for his first three years at Yale and a roughly similar average under a non-numerical rating system during his senior year."

lol.....

"The transcript shows that Kerry's freshman-year average was 71. He scored a 61 in geology, a 63 and 68 in two history classes, and a 69 in political science. His top score was a 79, in another political science course. Another of his strongest efforts, a 77, came in French class."

French Class, Kerry's strong point.

[rsoxfan1123]

clestes is right. bush doesn't care about us. Iraq is his part "revenge for his father" scheme and part "gain control of the world's thrid largest oil supply so his Texas oil friends can make money" scheme. If you think otherwise you are a naive fool. We can at least be grateful bush abandoned his plan to colonize mars which he talked about when he first got in office. The debt he has passed on to our kids and grandkids, after being left with a $2 trillion surplus which he promptly turned into a $2 trilion debt, is a horrible legacy.

[peterbaldwin-2009]

Howard LaFranchi's report speculates that a Dem controlled Congress will be unable to assert its will. This Democratic wave that is forming eminates from the Arerican people's desire to repudiate the neocon nightmare that has unfolded. Once power has been wrestled from the Republican robots, it is anybody's guess what will happen. The pundits are only guessing, too. All we know is that the wave is yet to crest. War-making powers rest with the
Congress.

[clestes-2009]

Defending all of us?? You are nuts. gw does not give a *** about you. He only cares about himself and his legacy. If he was defending all of us, he would get us out of Iraq, stop baiting Iran and N. Korea and think about the debt he is passing onto the future generations.

I'm sorry for you. You are going to be very disappointed in years to come when all the good life we have now is gone and our kids and grandkids have to pay for all gw's stupid dreams of glory.

[one_american]

From www.drudgreport.com:

McCain Calls On Kerry To Apologize
Tue Oct 31 2006 11:43:14 ET

"Senator Kerry owes an apology to the many thousands of Americans serving in Iraq, who answered their country's call because they are patriots and not because of any deficiencies in their education. Americans from all backgrounds, well off and less fortunate, with high school diplomas and graduate degrees, take seriously their duty to our country, and risk their lives today to defend the rest of us in Iraq, Afghanistan, and elsewhere.

They all deserve our respect and deepest gratitude for their service. The suggestion that only the least educated Americans would agree to serve in the military and fight in Iraq, is an insult to every soldier serving in combat, and should deeply offend any American with an ounce of appreciation for what they suffer and risk so that the rest of us can sleep more comfortably at night. Without them, we wouldn't live in a country where people securely possess all their God-given rights, including the right to express insensitive, ill-considered and uninformed remarks."

[one_american]

clestes:

Easy to defend President Bush, because he is defending all of us.

And it is easy to defend our soldiers, because they are defending us.

GET IT?

Oh, right. Your a liberal. And the liberals are the REAL COWARDS.

[one_american]

peterbaldwin:

Hopeless pathetic lies.

But you really aren't defending Kerry's attack on our soldiers, are you?

And clestes:

Very weak defence of an individual who shot an unarmed Vietnames boy in the back, and lied about injuries to get his Purple Heart medals?

Is that your definition of a hero?

Shameful pathetic wretch you are.

[clestes-2009]

And another thing I don't understand is how you can defend that coward in the whitehouse. Do you think he deserves it?? If so, why?