Comments on: 1,300 Iraqis Fired For Refusing To Fight

Iraqi Police, Army Members Dismissed After Deserting In Face Of Basra Militias Last Month

[popstom1]

Dumb F- Iraq We leave let them do what they have been
for over 2000 years killing each outher and come back
open a gas staion or would like The USA bankrupted
they would

[downsteamjim]

It could be a lot worse. We could be drilling in ANWAR and offshore, building nuclear power plants,etc. but no let us be dependent on Mideast oil.

[downsteamjim]

Since Sadr spends most of his time in Iran, he is an ''outsider''. The Iraqi army should be better since it was able to do a voluntary purge of the riffraff.

[popstom1]

We don''t need too be here F- those people they stab
our guy in the back as soon they turn around there
NOT WORTH ONE AMERICAN

[pfd572]

dumbshun: mmmmm. It''s McCain by the way. ha

[truth832-2009]

Would the american soldier be allowed to be fired if he chose not to fight! The toll taken on the american soldier is inestimable; yet, the hate in the heart of those who continue to back this war blinds the people! It is time to accept the new consciousness for the salvation of the earth. Otherwise, it is too late!

[nothappyatall]

The Iraqi government has dismissed about 1,300 soldiers and policemen who deserted or refused to fight "


LOL what an amazing coincidence JUST as bush'' regime plans to stop the troop drawdown!
Like I said before, time to DUMP these idiots and let em fall flat on their azzes and whatever happens there happens, time to cut the apron strings.


"Didn''''t then LT. GENERAL Petraeus have the assigment to train all these freedom loving people how to defend themselves ?

Didn''''t Petraeus even write an OP-ED piece to the Washington Post on how well things were going training these freedom loving people?"

He DID, things are going SO well over there as you know!!

[middleman8]

Why should these people fight against their own fellow countrymen? In the states they would be labled "Benidict Arnolds " if they fought against the american people. Good for them they are not helping the invader.

[grim56z]

Al Mazri plans a holocaust of American Soldiers at the hands of his Al Qada Fighters. It makes better sense to attack rather than suffer decimation. AQI should be hunted and killed. Showing them mercy is weak and addle.

[cfin5]

They got off easy here. They don''t need those kind around anyhow. All they wanted was a paycheck, not what they promised to do to earn it. That''s a really bad mark on your record in a time when public trust is of utmost importance......Since I''m on the subject, shouldn''t our Senators and House members be "dismissed" (FIRED) for not showing up to do something so easy to do as VOTING??? OBAMA and some others never seem to mind why they''re there in the first place and I''d say if you docked them for NO-SHOW, they''d throw a carpet ripping tantrum on the floor in broad daylight. And isn''t it these same people who say we need taxed more to help out the lazy leechin'' SOCIALISTS? About had enough of those sloths.

[ioweign]

The Iraqi government has dismissed about 1,300 soldiers and policemen who deserted or refused to fight during last month''s offensive against Shiite militias and criminal gangs in Basra, officials said Sunday.

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soldiers and policemen who deserted or refused to fight


Do you think that they may have read about Bush and his Texas Air National guard days and Cheney and his 5 deferments and this is a case of monkey see, monkey do...

[inventagod]

...and if our troops refused, the Pentagoons would throw them in prison, maybe torture them...

Hmmm, who are the real baddies?

[king77shaw]

how many billions of US taxpayer dollars did this desertion cost ?

[nodemotwit]

The firings are very justified, but they still need jobs, and w/o jobs they will likely become employed in the al-Sadr thug patrol.

However, what is really criminal is the fact that billions of Iraqi dollars currently sit in US banks, untouched, dollars which could be employing Iraqis in building their infrastructure (hospital, schools, power grids, water, sewage, etc). This would get the Iraqi people behind their government (assuming the latter is instrumental in allocating and spending those monies in a manner similar to that described above) and remove their support from the fanatical theocratic thugs vying for power. Then the US can exit with a reasonably good conscious, rather than dropping Iraq on a particular date (per the liberal platform, even if that data happens to fall in mid-stream of the required effort) regardless of the consequences.

[tbweb]

Its time for Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki to plot a solution against anti-American Shiite Cleric Muqtada al-Sadr who has vowed the U.S. is his permanent enemy! Muqtada al-Sadr is not political opposition in the traditional sense the West is accustomed to, Muqtada al-Sadr''s political opposition has an armed and active militant element to it designed to overthrow the government if he does not like whats going on! Iraq will never realize success as long as Muqtada al-Sadr aided by Irans Pres. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is allowed to be actively disruptive and anti-government is a context bordering on treason which is punishable by death!

[ioweign]

Didn''t then LT. GENERAL Petraeus have the assigment to train all these freedom loving people how to defend themselves ?

Didn''t Petraeus even write an OP-ED piece to the Washington Post on how well things were going training these freedom loving people?

From the looks of this recent development with the Iraqi army, we maybe lucky Petraeus wasn''t involved in training our soldiers and Marines...

[hungry1968]

1,300 Iraqis Fired For Refusing To Fight
Iraqi Police, Army Members Dismissed After Deserting In Face Of Basra Militias Last Month




And we can''t leave until the Iraqi military stands up for itself?

I guess were mired there forever at this rate. Or if McSame gets elected.

[ponco seno]

They realized at the end of the day, they are all brothers, why kill each other.

[inventagod]

Wow.
Maybe we should just leave.
Now.