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- Posted by whitepicks2
How come you''re not complaining about Dafur. How many Africans were killed there? Isn''t George Clooney reving up his military? It''s the Hollyweird crowd. - Reply to this comment
- Anybody saying otherwise either doesn''''''''t know a thing or is trying to play political games.
END THIS WAR!
Posted by whitepicks2
Well,seems you have been so scamed as to believe he''''ll END THIS WAR? He ain''''t ending anything.
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Posted by mudrose at 03:41 PM : Apr 22, 2008
No one is going to end the war. I read today that the bill granting Mexico $550 million to fight the war on drugs will be tied to the Iraqi war appropriations. We''re screw ed once again - Reply to this comment
- McCain - endless, ambiguous war, currently costing 1000 troops a year and $12 billion a month wrecking our economy, in Iraq for generations to come, and with permanent bases.
If that''s not enough, McCain has said: "There''s going to be other wars. . . . I''m sorry to tell you, there''s going to be other wars. We will never surrender but there will be other wars." - Feb. 3, 08 -- suggesting his view that a war with Iran was inevitable. - Reply to this comment
- Posted by whitepicks2
ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ!!!!!
Remember Pewlosi and the Road to Damascus is the Road to Peace. How about that Jimmah Boy. Didn''t he established ME peace just this past week. Yup, they sure know how to rock and roll. Everyone in the ME is just hoping and waiting for their chance to have Obama tell them how to make peace. Hahahahaha! - Reply to this comment
- Bringing Our Troops Home
Obama will immediately begin to remove our troops from Iraq. He will remove one to two combat brigades each month, and have all of our combat brigades out of Iraq within 16 months. Obama will make it clear that we will not build any permanent bases in Iraq. He will keep some troops in Iraq to protect our embassy and diplomats; if al Qaeda attempts to build a base within Iraq, he will keep troops in Iraq or elsewhere in the region to carry out targeted strikes on al Qaeda.
Press Iraq%u2019s Leaders to Reconcile
The best way to press Iraq%u2019s leaders to take responsibility for their future is to make it clear that we are leaving. As we remove our troops, Obama will engage representatives from all levels of Iraqi society %u2013 in and out of government %u2013 to seek a new accord on Iraq%u2019s Constitution and governance. The United Nations will play a central role in this convention, which should not adjourn until a new national accord is reached addressing tough questions like federalism and oil revenue-sharing. - Reply to this comment
- Posted by whitepicks2
ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ!!!!! - Reply to this comment
- Regional Diplomacy
Obama will launch the most aggressive diplomatic effort in recent American history to reach a new compact on the stability of Iraq and the Middle East. This effort will include all of Iraq%u2019s neighbors %u2014 including Iran and Syria. This compact will aim to secure Iraq%u2019s borders; keep neighboring countries from meddling inside Iraq; isolate al Qaeda; support reconciliation among Iraq%u2019s sectarian groups; and provide financial support for Iraq%u2019s reconstruction.
Humanitarian Initiative
Obama believes that America has a moral and security responsibility to confront Iraq%u2019s humanitarian crisis %u2014 two million Iraqis are refugees; two million more are displaced inside their own country. Obama will form an international working group to address this crisis. He will provide at least $2 billion to expand services to Iraqi refugees in neighboring countries, and ensure that Iraqis inside their own country can find a safe-haven. - Reply to this comment
- Since researchers at Johns Hopkins estimated that 601,000 violent Iraqi deaths were attributable to the U.S.-led invasion as of July 2006, it necessarily does not include Iraqis who have been killed since then. We would like to update this number both to provide a more relevant day-to-day estimate of the Iraqi dead and to emphasize that the human tragedy mounts each day this brutal war continues.
This daily estimate is a rough estimate. It is not scientific; for that, another study must be conducted. However, absent such a study, we think this constitutes a best estimate of violent Iraqi deaths that is certainly more reliable than widely cited numbers that, often for political reasons, ignore the findings of scientifically sound demographic studies.
In September 2007, a new scientific poll of Iraqis confirmed that the number dead is likely to be over a million. The prestigious British polling firm, Opinion Research Business, estimated that 1.2 million Iraqis had been killed violently since the U.S. invasion. - Reply to this comment
- Iraqis killed, directly and collaterally, is estimated at over 1 million. http://www.justforeignpolicy.org/iraq/ir
aqdeaths.html
Posted by whitepicks2
Can you tell us how many Europeans were killed during the Second World War? How about Korea? Anything on Vietnam? - Reply to this comment
- Iraqis killed, directly and collaterally, is estimated at over 1 million. http://www.justforeignpolicy.org/iraq/iraqdeaths.html
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Author Thomas Friedman on Obama's Afghanistan plan and the war on terror.
