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[mudrose-2009]

It takes the PM of Iraq to stop it does anyone remmeber the other Republican A Hole Ronnie saying Mr Gorbachev Build another wall. Look how low a once great country has sunk SHAME!
Posted by jerryomara

But of course you know the intention of building the wall right? And Veteran 71, why wait for the '08 election? Let's hold it now. This is better known as anarchy.

[mudrose-2009]

Harry Reid a/k/a Benedict Arnold, says "this Congress will show him (Bush) the way out of Iraq". It's a method that Longfellow described in his poem The Day is Done. . .

. . .they shall fold their tents like the Arabs and as silently steal away...

Now who's an Al-Qaida sympathizer? Nothing like it I've ever seen in the history of this country. Always a Dem Congress showing us the way to disaster, to pandering, to giving the enemy the benefit of the doubt and s/h/i/ting on the troops. Fine group of patriots with their surrender solutions. Despicable!

[jwhitmann]

MCVet
is ignorant, pathetic and needs to have his undeserved ego deflated.

He sounds like some 13 year old wannabe bully who has just realized that he will never get any because the girls hate him.
So he becomes a legend in his own mind. Seig Heil, MCVet.

[panhandlpete]

Delay....delay....delay, but not Tom! The new "surge" is working. Yes, but for whom? Not the Sunni that are being walled within their neighborhood. The people know that they must live together as neighbors so they protest the wall. Or, perhaps this is an attempt to assist in the final elimination of the Sunni by putting them within a collective neighborhood.

If the wall is stopped, then what will be the next tactic initiated to "delay" until the OIL CONTRACTS are finalized. Those Iraqis involved in this process are not rushing this effort, so it does appear that they want the occupation to continue to provide them security, or something.

The Republicans will start getting a nervous twitch by this November as some primaries have been moved forward to early '08. Hopefully, it will NOT be forgotten that the rubberstamp REPUBS could have gotten us out of this MESS, if they only would stand up to the DECIDER.

How many more lives must be sacrificed? How many families of dead soldiers watched television this week, and saw all the attention given to loss of life to Virginia Tech students/teachers, but see so little shared grief for their loss?

[allgood34]

THE WAR WAS WON---- we did get rid of Saddam Hussein for what that's worth

Posted by Rochest at 09:07 AM : Apr 23, 2007

And do you remember the basis for the war? We invaded that country because of the "stock piles of WMDs". Where are these stock piles? How did we "WIN" if we never found the stock piles of chemical weapons? I was there when we invaded and we invaded that country based on the fabricated lies of our leaders. It's been 4 years and we haven't found anything more than a couple of empty mustard gas containers. We lied to the world and invaded a country because our leader didn't like that country's leader. That's a BS reason to invade and has cost Americans thousands of lives and trillions of tax payer dollars. I ask you this - WHAT DID WE WIN? It wasn't the respect of the people in that country and it wasn't the war on terror and there is more death and destruction in that country than there was when Saddam was in power so what did we win?

[allgood34]

Does anyone really think a wall is the answer? It doesn't matter if you build a wall or a futuristic force field there will be death and destruction as long as people walk that part of the earth.

Look at the history books people. If the violence hasn't stopped in that area in thousands of years it's not going to. Those people hate Americans and the western way of life. It doesn't matter what idea we come up with or take part in. If Americans have anything to do with the project it will fail simply because we are hated and the people there will reject anything we're involved in. Bring the troops home and let them either kill themselves off or figure out how to live and work together.

It is not possible to help someone who does not want and refuses help. Forcing your beliefs and way of life on someone will only cause them to hate you more. Isn't that why our ancestors left England and moved to America? From my understanding of history they moved because they didn't want a way of life forced on them, England tried and many lives were lost in the process. England lost that one. Now the US is trying to force a way on life on Iraq. Hello we've lost give it up before more Americans die!!!!

[rochest]

THE WAR WAS WON---- we did get rid of Saddam Hussein for what that's worth( not much if you ask many Iraqis and as I often tell my little children when they resort to force/violence to settle conflicts there is other ways to do this)

but

WE LOST THE PEACE and many many American soldiers and Iraqi civilians have died and been wounded.

[boondoggler7]

A peace officer once told me if he wants you to leave, you have to leave. Iraq wants us to leave, so we should leave. Albeit slowly. Much like withdrawing a cancerous tumor, if you rip it out to quickly, it will damage other things to. The John Fitzgerald Kennedy method of withdrawl would actually, in this case be feasible. However, I would normally not recommend the Kennedy method. Typically, it is better not to plunge or if you do make sure you have a parachute.

[boondoggler7]

Goodnight Goodmorning. I have to go to school soon. It's been funny. As far as all this war stuff goes, I don't really wanna hear no more.

[boondoggler7]

Actually, there was never a technical war to begin with. A true war would be if Iraqis were landing here in droves and it was do or die. It was an invasion of a sovereign nation to establish military bases, drain the oil to create a gigantic disneyland in the middle of the desert to spring forth a utopia of sorts. However, utopian pursuers, such as Herbert Herver, created great depressions under the guise of good intentions. If the military campaign continues indefinetly, the violence, which is escalating in nature, will more likely continue as it always has done before and eventually mankind will be killed off except for the uber elite so I suppose for them it will be a utopia since they won't have a lot of beggars asking for handouts. However, traditionally, such attempts at global domination (ala Rome) have lead to mass blowback which ended up creating a dire situation for the global dominators. It is understandable how someone with unchecked power can become intoxicated to the point that they are on a freight train out of control. Hell, I've been there. Once you're on that freight train it takes a hell of a lot of guts to jump off. They just need to put on the breaks and let it slow down slowly. Besides, even militarly, the goal of disarming Weapons of Mass Destruction had already been achieved by Bushes's father, plus they got the bonus of toppling the dictator Saddam Hussein. Basically, Bush is simply the quarterback who won the super bowl but doesn't want to leave the field.

[omnibus66]

There are both good and bad things about the South, but please stop blaming it for George Bush. He was born on July 6, 1946 in New Haven, CONNECTICUT. He is a YANKEE.

[dallison7]

THIS WAR IS LOST!!!

[afmca]

But, on the other hand, it proves the the US needs to get out of there immediately as it shows the Iraqi government doesn't really want to end the conflict either. They want to obliterate the Sunnis and if they can take a few American troops with them, so much for the better. Don't build the wall and bring the troops home - the only real solution.

[afmca]

Once again the US military is mimicking the failed military strategies of Israel in constructing a wall for the false sense of security. Since the neo-cons love how their counter-parts in Israel have been able to keep the Palestanian conflict never ending by trying to resolve the issue militarily, for the sake of profits they are following like lemmings. As long as one fanatic is willing to strap a bomb on his chest and detonate it in a crowd - military action can't win. You win by giving people economic assistance and hope for the future. Israel and the US are failing equally in their middle east conflicts.

[mcvet]

I think it's safe to say that the fascist have run out of idea's here. LOL When you are so narrow minded and when the solution requires something OTHER than bullying people, Southern Fascist just haven't a clue. The idea of finding a Political Solution to a Southern Nazi, like a Bush or Delay, is to give lip service to equal rights and fair treatment. Somehow I just do not think this is going to work in Iraq and the present leadership is so closed minded to options outside the Party Line, they have LOST this conflict.

[radiob-2009]

As he spoke, hundreds of Iraqis took to the streets in the area in northern Baghdad to protest the construction of the wall in Azamiyah, which residents have complained would isolate them from the rest of the city.


(CBS) There is perhaps no place in the world today where it is harder for an average person to get through an average day than in the city of Baghdad. It has become a living hell, with daily car bombs, mortar attacks, hundreds of kidnappings and murders every week.


And yet hundreds were able to protest the building of the wall?The latter story is from 60 minutes and the former is a quote from this article.