Comments on: Air Strikes Kill 17 Iraq Al Qaeda Fighters

U.S. Helicopters Target Hardline Militants In Baqouba As Diyala Sweep Continues

[j-whitman]

AJ,,, I knew & most of us did know at the time that the 1st Gulf War was a victory, a major success that I supported strongly, & Iraq was no longer a threat for anyone...
. It destroyed all reasons Bush used to take us back into it...... The CIA was absoulty right & now Bush continues the onslaught against them... It's old neo-con anti CIA war that's been going on for decades.

[j-whitman]

AJ,, Yes, I can't by that hind sight stuff though.. It would be ok if we are talkig about one of our kids getting a bad grade in school, or us making a mistake at home --
-- This is the intelligence networks of the once greatest nation in the world bro.... It isn't based on hind-sight & the violators & abusers have to be charged & prosecuted.... Instead we treat them like Paris Hilton & she saw jail.

[ajmarine1]

"PC is also a designation for patrol craft."

Posted by j-whitman at 08:03 PM : Jun 22, 2007

That's more like it.

[ajmarine1]

AJMarine I was on a PC-1 and the USS Nimitz at the end.

Posted by radiob at 07:00 PM : Jun 22, 2007

AJ,,, If I remember it's Postal Clerk, or was. That's a good transition to Radioman

Posted by j-whitman at 08:00 PM : Jun 22, 2007

He said he was "on" a PC-1. Also, a Postal Clerk is a long was from being a Radioman.

[j-whitman]

PC is also a designation for patrol craft.

[ajmarine1]

"No one jailed these people for creating bad intell on Iraq & they are running away with it again, on Iran this time, hard core..... Seems as bad as Iraq gets, they come out with more."

Posted by j-whitman at 07:50 PM : Jun 22, 2007

The intell before the war was universally believed; if you go back to the speeches made in congress and even by President Clinton you can see this. Now, as you know, hindsight is 20-20 and everyone is saying they were lied to or misslead. As for Iran, we have taking a back seat to the EU for 4 years letting them try to use dipomacy with them; I don't see where this has gotten anywhere but give Iran more time to work on their projects. Also, I don't see use letting them develope the bomb. I think we should use economic measures to cause the Irainian people to over throw their government and come out of isolation and join the rest of the world.

[j-whitman]

AJ,,, If I remember it's Postal Clerk, or was. That's a good transition to Radioman

[ajmarine1]

AJMarine I was on a PC-1 and the USS Nimitz at the end.

Posted by radiob at 07:00 PM : Jun 22, 2007

Before you go, what is a PC-1?

[j-whitman]

AJMarine1,,, Quite a mess isn't it ???? What really has me concerned at the moment are all the Karl Rove & Cheney Clones they have in the NSA --- No one jailed these people for creating bad intell on Iraq & they are running away with it again, on Iran this time, hard core..... Seems as bad as Iraq gets, they come out with more.

[radiob-2009]

AJMarine as you can see the commentary gets way off track from the actual article. Your find of the one article is excellent.

Anyway I am going to go and chase some tail for awhile so have a good evening. Nice talking with you.

[ajmarine1]

Article from "Aljzeera English Net."

US legislators on Thursday moved to revive the Iraq Study Group comprising prominent US officials who want George Bush, the president, to change the course of the war.

The move, reiterating Republican calls to withdraw troops, will provide an alternative assessment to the Bush administration's progress report on Iraq due in September.

The group had said US troops should play only a supporting role to Iraqi forces, and urged for lesser political, military or economic involvement if the government in Baghdad failed to show substantial progress.

The group said in December that if specific steps were taken, US soldiers could be out of Iraq by March 2008.

[radiob-2009]

June 12, 2006
With its prime minister far away, the small town of Sderot is being battered non-stop by Qassam missiles night and day from the Gaza Strip one kilometer away. One citizen was seriously injured, dozens suffered minor injures, the schools are shut for lack of shelters, and a steady exodus of refugees is depleting the struggling Negev town of 20,000 inhabitants.

The Hamas threat to turn Sderot into a ghost town is coming true.

[radiob-2009]

March 30, 2006: Four people were killed in a suicide bombing outside Kedumim in the northern West Bank. The Al-Aksa Martyrs Brigades took responsibility for the attack.

Here is one, from right after Hamas was elected.

[fredgrad2000]

Nothing but BS on the posts here today - old stuff; no solutions, just the usual Bush bashing and conspiracy theories fed by Move On.org to easily malleable minds...looks like MoveOn and Daily Kos sent out all their minions to this board today...have fun!!

[feelfree1]

My previous post was in response to 'Prinzowhales'.

Your analysis is exceptional.

Please keep it coming!

[j-whitman]

Radio,,, Here's some more lies coming from the White House since people are dumb enough to believe that Iran was supplying thier own mortal enemy in Afaganistan --
-- They now are saying Iran is the one who's been attacking the Green Zone -------
-- Still absoultly no mention of the Saudi's who actually are supplying them to al Quida & the Taliban as well as Sunni insurgents in Iraq.

[feelfree1]

Re: "Obviously, there was a plan--we have the fourteen permanent bases; the importation of death squads; the encouraging of attacks and destruction of government buildings by the Americans; the firing of the army and police; the terror attacks by British special forces and Israeli contractors; the 'beheading' of the Jewish fellow who was tied to the '20th hijacker; and the terror attacks carried out through the offices of the good offices of our Iraqi friends interior ministry..."

Exactly!

Mission Accaomplished!

The only thing that these Bush regime/PNAC ghouls seemed to underestimate, is how much oppostion that they would face, and how easily average people would be able to shred their ridiculous deceptions.

Aside from that, they continue to achieve their main objectives.

[j-whitman]

Radio,,,, My point is, this won't end untill we get rid of these neo-cons & Christofascists that only keep extendending it corrupting our nation in the process for profit. Blame has to be made & acted on now, it's justice.

[prinzowhales]

radiob--Now, I know something else was going on that day besides the firing of those rockets-- was it perhapsk, the invasion of Lebanon and the shelling of Lebanese villages?

[ajmarine1]

Article from "Aljazeera English Net."

Draft Iraq oil law makes headway

A draft oil law has been submitted to Iraq's parliament after the government and the Iraqi Kurdistan regional authority resolved differences on the sharing of the country's oil reserves, officials have said.

"A deal has been reached and the draft has been delivered to parliament to be discussed... in the coming days. An agreement has been reached covering all disputes," Asim Jihad said.

The draft oil law is crucial in regulating how wealth from Iraq's huge oil reserves will be distributed between sectarian and ethnic groups.

The bill was approved by the cabinet in February but many Kurds opposed it.

Particular objections were raised to parts of the draft that would see oil fields being taken from regional governments to be placed under a new state oil company.

Iraq sits on the world's third-largest oil reserves and officials have sought since last year to finalise the draft law.

The draft law is vital for Iraq to attract foreign investment to boost its oil output and rebuild its economy.

The Kurdistan regional government has signed several agreements with foreign companies.

In recent months, Washington has sent several officials to press Nuri al-Maliki, prime minister of Iraq's Shia-led government, to speed up the passage of laws aimed at increasing the participation of Sunni Arabs in the political process.