Comments on: Dozens Dead In Wave Of Iraq Violence

Extremists Pound Green Zone With Rockets And Mortar Fire, As Suicide Attack Hits Mosul

[antoniof123]

U.S. death toll in the conflict approaches 4,000.

Well, just like Viet Nam the conflict, you neo cons will pay for this war of vanity.

Enjoy neo cons your day in infamy is coming.

[iceman_1960]

Sounds suspiciously like D*ick Cheney handed him a script to read...

"Iraq security adviser to Americans: Be patient

BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- As the Iraq war entered its sixth year, the country"s national security adviser urged Americans to be patient, contending that the war is "well worth fighting" because it has implications about "global terror."

"This is global terrorism hitting everywhere, and they have chosen Iraq to be a battlefield. And we have to take them on," Mowaffak al-Rubaie [cool name...] said Sunday on CNN"s "Late Edition with Wolf Blitzer."

"If we don"t prevail, if we don"t succeed in this war, then we are doomed forever," he said. "I understand and sympathize with the mothers, with the widows, with the children who have lost their beloved ones in this country.

"But honestly, it is well worth fighting and well worth investing the money and the treasure and the sweat and the tears in Iraq."

http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/meast/03/23/iraq.main/index.html

[ranger1948]

I believe we have already lost more thn 4,000 trops in iraq. The govt never tells the truth about war casualties.

[sgtrds]

The right wing keeps bleating out that the surge is working, because there''ve been fewer deaths. However the whole premise of the surge was to give the Iraqi government some breathing room to make real progress and they have not. So by any realistic measurement the surge has been a complete failure.

[sgtrds]

Bush and his minions at the GOP-- O''''Limbaugh, O''''Reilly, O''''Hannity, O''''Coulter, Karl der Reichsmarschall Rove, und legions of die Braunshirtengebrudern-- are ready to pimp for his election, then track him, isolate him politically, and kill him without further ceremony.

Posted by alphaa10 at 06:40 PM : Mar 23, 2008

Only if they''re not successful in their coming attempts to kill Barack Obama.

[ajayvee]

I guess "Mission Accomplished" was a bit premature. Oh well, who lives may learn!

[rowdytexan2]

Posted by fredgrad2000 at 08:03 PM : Mar 23, 2008

The ONLY success in the occupation was convincing al-Sadr into a truce. And now we''ve attacked some of his people and he''s given them permission to attack in defense.

The insurgents coming into Iraq have no ties to Islamic extremism. They are hired mercenaries coming out of Saudi Arabia. They''re either there at the behst of King Abdullah to keep pressure on the puppet government NOT to sign the PSA agreements for the oil, or they''re there at the behest of the Neocons to put pressure on the puppet government TO sign the PSA agreements. The insurgency is about the oil.

The few Islamic extremist terrorists originally in Iraq have not been seen by the generals on the ground in a long long time.

[joyous88]

The Iraqi peole want us to leave it is that simple;

Illegal ,immoral, invasion by an immoral america

you should be ashamed

[stevex47]

The temporary reduction in violence now looks like it was because of the truce by al Sadr''s followers.

[randynason]

Do you think that maybe the Iraqis are tired of our presence there in their country, after killing their people, decimating thier economy and destroying their utilities and way of life? Hmmm... let me think, now...