Comments on: Al-Sadr To Followers: Refuse Surrender

As U.S., British Forces Join Basra Offensive, Militants Reject Call To Disarm; 2 U.S. Troops Killed in Baghdad

[sgtrds]

Nope, we could never nuke um. Too much money to be made. Got to keep that oil flowing. Too many people making too much money.

Posted by pollroller1 at 12:37 PM : Mar 29, 2008

And every bit of it is blood money. This war is because war and death are every evry profitable to compnaies like Haliburton. To them the deaths of our troops, the slaughter on innocent civilians and the trashing of America''s image in the world are all prices they''re more than happy to pay to pad their bank accounts. 100 years from now the money the Bush and Cheney great grand children will be spending will still be soaked uin innocent blood spilled by George W. and Di*cky boy.

[obama8years]

IS THIS TRUE?
OBAMA TIES TO HAMAS TERROR

The Jewish Telegraphic Agency today reports that the Reverend Jeremiah Wright, Jr., long-time pastor of Barak Obama, published an op-ed piece signed by a Hamas leader. The item appeared in the July 22, 2007 edition of his Trinity United Church newspaper on the "Pastors Page." The op-ed piece justifies attacks on Israeli civilians, and carries a supporting introduction by Wright.

Barak Obama issued a statement strongly condemning these views of his pastor. "I certainly wasn%u2019t in church when that outrageously wrong [Hamas] piece was re-printed in the bulletin,%u201D Obama added.


Obama is a long-time member of Trinity United, and his financial contributions to his church are reported to be substantial ("All told, the [Obama] couple gave $27,500 to [Trinity United] in 2005 and 2006," according to the New York Times of March 26). His moral support to the church has been unwavering. As more and more and more details of the extremist political positions of the church are revealed, Obama''s response has been to distance himself from these, but also to repeat, over and over, that he didn''t know, that he wasn''t there.

I find it very difficult to believe that an intelligent, energetic, and very political man like Obama is perpetually ignorant about what goes on in the church to which he devotes so many of his resources. If he does get to the White House, will he be in similar ignorance about the goings on of his administration ?

[pollroller1]

Nope, we could never nuke um. Too much money to be made. Got to keep that oil flowing. Too many people making too much money.

[sgtrds]

In many wars civilians die, like in WWII when we had no choice. The difference here is that this is not WWII when we were fighting people who attacked us. The difference here is that Bush and Cheney launched this war as a war of invasion and conquest. In this war WE are the Roams crushing other nations and killing their people. WE are the Huns slaughtering innocents of greed. WE are the new Nazis, invading nations that never harmed us and killing their people all so our rich and our corporations can make a profit. We are not bombing Basra because we have no choice, we are murdering those civilians for money! Once upon a time America used to be the good guys. Now, thanks to the lies of Bush and Cheney WE are the bad guys, we are the invading hoards, we are the oppressors. Thanks George, you idiotic evil piece of garbage! And thanks to you too Cheney, you Fat Nazi!

[sgtrds]

The Bush/Cheney foreign policy: Bomb them until they love us. Destroy them so they''ll have democracy. Slaughter them until they realize were just killing them for their own good. It''s Vietnam all over again when we were burning their villages in order to save them. Madness. Madness.

[ajaxtheleast]

Re: Our rational for attacking Basra and

Sadr City, to save your time searching and

our time arranging press conferences

please request "LIE #1026" FOR EMAIL DELIVERY.

[stn_sage]

First, whether U.S. or U.K. is responsible for civilian deaths is irrelevant. It will result in more and more Iraqis picking up arms against the U.S.!

Second, it''s stated that militia groups have basically controlled Basra for 3 years! I thought U.K. forces were in control of it, they withdrew turning it over to Iraqi forces! Has the pubic been previously misinformed?

Third, extremely problematic is wholesale surrender of arms by Iraqi police units to al-Sadr''s militia!?
How can order be restored & maintained when Iraqi nationals charged with that responsibility don''t do it?! Answer: it can''t!

Fourth, al Maliki has potentially permanently undercut his own credibility if his forces can''t take Basra!

Finally, all these things---and more unmentioned---demonstrate---once again---that we should NOT be in Iraq and we are NOT ''winning the war''!

[yongamerica]

Perhaps this article will show that every relative of the Mahdi army are already involved in the insurgency.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/28/AR2008032803810.html?hpid%3Dtopnews&sub=AR

[singingrick]

In a related story, every relative of the eight people killed joined the insurgency.

[underdogus]

The rest of Iraq knows this, the so called civil war has yet to start
Posted by yongamerica ...yes! well said sir/mam.....

[yongamerica]

The Iranian supplied Mahdi Army has shown its hand! It does not support the Iraq nominated government. The army is to be used in two years time to overthrow the Iraqi government after Sadr becomes an Ayatollah. He and the top two tiers of his commanders are all hiding in Iran until this time, at which he will attempt to establish an Iraqi government Iranian style.

The rest of Iraq knows this, the so called civil war has yet to start

[prinzowhales]

Maliki has extended his deadline from three to ten days for the Mahdi Army in Basra to hand in its heavy weapons in exchange for cash...Perhaps he should just take a page out of Bush''s book (the other one, besides MY PET GOAT) and declare, "Mission Accomplished," and promise that Basra will be taken by the Islamic equivalent to Christmas.

[pollroller1]

Let''s see if we can figure this out. Iraq has one of the largest oil deposits in the world. Let the American taxpayers pay to protect the pipeline by sending our young men over there. So you have billions of dollars in revenue flowing in. The cost of the operating is being paid for by the US taxpayers. WOW!!! Now that''s how you make the BIG bucks.

[underdogus]

al-Maliki told tribal leaders in the southern city that he "will not leave Basra until security is restored" and those who have taken up arms against the government are punished..you''re a joke Al-maliki... you''re gonna punish Ahmadinejad ????

[mcvet]

This ain''t good people. When we take sides in an obvious civil war it is NOT good.