6,000 Sunnis Join U.S. Fight In Iraq

American Military Touts Pact To Counter Al Qaeda As Largest Volunteer Force Of War

(CBS/AP)  Almost 6,000 Sunni Arab residents joined a security pact with American forces in what U.S. officers described as a critical step in plugging the remaining escape routes for extremists flushed from former strongholds.

The new alliance - called the single largest volunteer mobilization since the war began - covers the "last gateway" for groups such as al Qaeda in Iraq seeking new havens in northern Iraq, U.S. military officials said Wednesday.

U.S. commanders have tried to build a ring around insurgents who fled military offensives launched earlier this year in the western Anbar province and later into Baghdad and surrounding areas. In many places, the U.S.-led battles were given key help from tribal militias - mainly Sunnis - that had turned against al Qaeda and other groups.

Extremists have sought new footholds in northern areas once loyal to Saddam Hussein's Baath party as the U.S.-led gains have mounted across central regions. But their ability to strike near the capital remains.

A woman wearing an explosive-rigged belt blew herself up near an American patrol near Baqouba, about 35 miles northeast of Baghdad, the military announced Wednesday. The blast on Tuesday - a rare attack by a female suicide bomber - wounded seven U.S. troops and five Iraqis, the statement said.

The ceremony to pledge the 6,000 new fighters was presided over by a dozen sheiks - each draped in black robes trimmed with gold braiding - who signed the contract on behalf of tribesmen at a small U.S. outpost in north-central Iraq.

For about $275 a month - nearly the salary for the typical Iraqi policeman - the tribesmen will man about 200 security checkpoints beginning Dec. 7, supplementing hundreds of Iraqi forces already in the area.

About 77,000 Iraqis nationwide, mostly Sunnis, have broken with the insurgents and joined U.S.-backed self-defense groups.

Those groups have played a major role in the lull in violence: 648 Iraqi civilians have been killed or found dead in November to date, according to figures compiled by The Associated Press. This compares with 2,155 in May as the so-called "surge" of nearly 30,000 additional American troops gained momentum.

U.S. troop deaths in Iraq have also dropped sharply. So far this month, the military has reported 35 deaths - including an American soldier killed Wednesday in western Baghdad - compared with 38 in October. In June, 101 U.S. soldiers died in Iraq.

In other developments:

In Baghdad, a bus convoy arrived Wedensday carrying hundreds of refugees home from Syria. The buses, funded by the Iraqi government, left Damascus on Tuesday as part of a plan to speed the %t to neighboring Syria and Jordan.

Universities in Baltimore, Maryland and Tikrit, Iraq have signed the first formal partnership between law schools in the two countries. Tikrit is the hometown of Saddam Hussein, and Iraq is where the rule of law was enshrined in the Code of Hammurabi more than 4,000 years ago. Someday, under the agreement, University of Baltimore students might study in Iraq. But for security reasons, the first step will likely bring students at the University of Tikrit School of Law to Baltimore for graduate legal study and research, according to Phillip J. Closius, UB's law school's dean.

Iraqi journalist Dhia al-Kawaz, who said 11 members of his family - two sisters, their husbands and their seven children - were killed in their Baghdad home challenged the government's denial of the deaths Wednesday. Iraqi government spokesman, Ali al-Dabbagh, insisted that the deaths - reportedly Sunday in a northern neighborhood of Baghdad known to be a Shiite militia stronghold - never took place. Al-Kawaz, who has lived outside Iraq for 20 years, told Al-Jazeera television: "I ask the spokesman Ali al-Dabbagh to let all of my family appear on TV."

Village mayors and others who signed Wednesday's agreement say about 200 militants have sought refuge in the area, about 30 miles southwest of Kirkuk on the edge of northern Iraq's semi-autonomous Kurdish region. Hawija is a predominantly Sunni Arab cluster of villages which has long been an insurgent flashpoint.

The recently arrived militants have waged a campaign of killing and intimidation to try to establish a new base, said Sheikh Khalaf Ali Issa, mayor of Zaab village.

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They killed 476 of my citizens, and I will not let them continue their killing.

Sheikh Khalaf Ali Issa,
Mayor of Zaab village

"They killed 476 of my citizens, and I will not let them continue their killing," Issa said.

With the help of the new Sunni allies, "the Hawija area will be an obstacle to militants, rather than a pathway for them," said Maj. Sean Wilson, with the Army's 1st Brigade, 10th Mountain Division. "They're another set of eyes that we needed in this critical area."

By defeating militants in Hawija, U.S. and Iraqi leaders hope to keep them away from Kirkuk, an ethnically diverse city that is also the hub of Iraq's northern oil fields.

"They want to go north into Kirkuk and wreak havoc there, and that's exactly what we're trying to avoid," Army Maj. Gen. Mark P. Hertling, the top U.S. commander in northern Iraq, told The Associated Press this week.

Kurds often consider Kirkuk part of their ancestral homeland and often refer to the city as the "Kurdish Jerusalem." Saddam, however, relocated tens of thousands of pro-regime Arabs to the city in the 1980s and 1990s under his "Arabization" policy.

The Iraqi government has begun resettling some of those Arabs to their home regions, making room for thousands of Kurds who have gradually returned to Kirkuk since Saddam's ouster.

Tension has been rising over the city's status - whether it will join the semi-autonomous Kurdish region or continue being governed by Baghdad.

"Hawija is the gateway through which all our communities - Kurdish, Turkomen and Arab alike - can become unsafe," said Abu Saif al-Jabouri, mayor of al-Multaqa village north of Kirkuk. "Do I love my neighbor in Hawija? That question no longer matters. I must work to help him, because his safety helps me."

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by jetranger7 November 29, 2007 4:03 AM PST

I''ve said before, quit horsin around and lets get out the real stuff, FLAME THROWERS, HOWLITZERS, ROCKET LAUNCHERS HEAVILY ARTILLERY, THIS STANDIN AROUND MANIN check points and handin out cheese, has to end,,set the place on fire and burn it to hell !!!!!

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by fibonacci_ November 29, 2007 4:36 AM PST

Do you really think that is a good idea?

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by hillaryin08 November 29, 2007 8:07 AM PST

ok but Hillary is not getting us out of the fight either so.......whats your point liberal?

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by mbcsmith November 29, 2007 8:27 AM PST

The LIBS really need to hurry up and surrender before we win this thing. LIBS are sooo funny!

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by mbcsmith November 29, 2007 8:29 AM PST

The oval office is the world''''s largest hat and the shrub has an itty-bitty head.

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Posted by Nancy_Naive at 06:01 AM : Nov 29, 2007

He''s winning a war that you want to surrender. Where does that put you on the food chain.

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by mbcsmith November 29, 2007 8:52 AM PST

Posted by Nancy_Naive at 08:33 AM : Nov 29, 2007

Typical LIB drivel. It is so sad that the party of FDR has become the Anti-American defeatist LIB party.

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by antoniof123 November 29, 2007 9:01 AM PST

Typical LIB drivel. It is so sad that the party of FDR has become the Anti-American defeatist LIB party.

Posted by mbcsmith at 08:52 AM : Nov 29, 2007

Why is it that this person would say that about FDR he too like Bill Clinton is one of the most beloved Presidents in American history. Face it you can''t spin away the truth. This is a President that was elected Four times by the popular vote.

You can try to spin it like I read on a wing nut site that Buffet has a lot of money but he is not that smart. Showing once again that a wing nut is an idiot.

Good Luck, Good Night.

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by mbcsmith November 29, 2007 9:07 AM PST

Good Luck, Good Night.


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Posted by antoniof123 at 09:01 AM : Nov 29, 2007

You are such a waste of public education money. Read it again LIB. I''ll make it simple for you. FDR was a good president but HIS party is now a bunch of whiny, moaning anti-American surrender monkeys. LIBS.

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by omega39-2009 November 29, 2007 9:13 AM PST

I''''ll make it simple for you. Ronald Reagan had astrologers running America
Posted by FloydZepp

Miss Cleo would have been better than the bunch we have in there now.

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by mbcsmith November 29, 2007 9:29 AM PST

Why is it that this person would say that about FDR he too like Bill Clinton is one of the most beloved Presidents in American history. Face it you can''''t spin away the truth. This is a President that was elected Four times by the popular vote.Posted by antoniof123 at 09:01 AM : Nov 29, 2007

President Bush won the largest number of voters in American history during the last presidential election. Billdo on the other hand never accomplished even a majority. Billdo was elected both times with less than 50 percent.

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by prinzowhales November 29, 2007 9:48 AM PST

The Sunnis in the north have very little choice but to side with the US--the Kurds aren''t enamoured with them...the Shi''ites could care less. This is how an imperialist manages a country...breaking down unity and playing one against the other...that is why the Oligarchy wants unlimited immigration in the US...to play white against brown and brown against black...

Here''s an article on OPERATION PLIERS in Venezuela... it gives the SOP on fracking with a democracy:

http://www.venezuelanalysis.com/analysis/2914

You''ll recall much of it from the 2000 and 2004 electoral thefts in the United States.

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by mbcsmith November 29, 2007 9:51 AM PST

Posted by rafterman1 at 09:49 AM : Nov 29, 2007

I''m glad you agree with my figures.

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by omega39-2009 November 29, 2007 9:51 AM PST

I think the Shrub consults Miss Cleo for the important decisions....
Posted by FloydZepp

FloydZepp........
-WMDs
-Calling Gen Shinseki''s estimates "wildly off mark"
-Iraqi oil profits would pay for the war
-Yellow cake
-cakewalk
-Greeted as liberators
-throwing flowers and dancing in the streets
-Mission Accomplished

Even a fraud and charlatan like Miss Cleo couldn''t possibly be this consistently wrong.

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by rowdytexan2 November 29, 2007 9:54 AM PST

What a bunch of *** I''m reading here!

The republicans still have to hang on to the idea that their vote for Mr. Bush hasn''t damaged this country for years to come. You people can''t handle the truth!

This is a totally manufactured peace! The neocons have pulled Al Queda back. Who do you think was paying them to come in and kill Iraqi''s? The Iraqi''s are not stupid. They know if they don''t get together with a show of force that the neocons will send Al Queda right back.

The next thing you''re going to hear is that Hunt Oil got the contracts for oil development in Iraq. It''s the worst job of bullying a country and stealing from them I''ve ever seen.

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by omega39-2009 November 29, 2007 9:55 AM PST

President Bush won the largest number of voters in American history during the last presidential election. Billdo on the other hand never accomplished even a majority. Billdo was elected both times with less than 50 percent.
Posted by mbcsmith

And yet, after six years of you fruitcakes dragging him through the mud, he left office with a 72% job approval rating. Your "popular" president on the other hand, is languishing in the low 30''s and taking the GOP down with him.

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by rowdytexan2 November 29, 2007 9:56 AM PST

Have you people actually not realized Mr. Bush hasn''t WON an election yet???

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by mbcsmith November 29, 2007 9:58 AM PST

Posted by RowdyTexan2 at 09:56 AM : Nov 29, 2007

LIBS are sooooo funny. Get over your hatred and your life will improve immensely.

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by mbcsmith November 29, 2007 10:01 AM PST

Posted by rafterman1 at 09:58 AM : Nov 29, 2007

Don''t you LIBs go to school? Read my original post moron! Billdo was an illegitimate president, probably like his ugly a$$ daughter. As you can see, President Bush won the largest number of popular vots in the history of presidential elections. Read it and weep LIBS.

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by mbcsmith November 29, 2007 10:14 AM PST

It''''s pathetic that you would still take a shot like that.




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Posted by rafterman1 at 10:05 AM : Nov 29, 2007

That kid was beat with an ugly stick.

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by trillion1 November 29, 2007 10:21 AM PST

The truth never was a GOP strong suit.

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by mbcsmith November 29, 2007 10:50 AM PST

The truth never was a GOP strong suit.


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Posted by trillion1 at 10:21 AM : Nov 29, 2007

LIBS are soooo funny and selective in their memories. Remember when Billdo called a national prime time address to the nation on national TV, an address to every American, shook his finger at us and said "I never had sexual relations with that woman". That was a low point in the office off the American president that still stands today.

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by downtowner97 November 29, 2007 10:53 AM PST

The bad guys are going to have a hard time buying off a checkpoint guard who makes $275 a month. He''ll just say "No! I don''t want your $100 to forget to check your trunk. It takes me only a couple weeks of risking my a$$ in the blistering heat to make that much.

It''s hilarious to think that with the trillions of dollars we spend on the war, we insult people who are willing to lay their lives on the line like that.

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by one_american November 29, 2007 11:25 AM PST

This story is further proof that liberals are losing their War Against All Americans (WAAA).

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by gkc99 November 29, 2007 12:48 PM PST

"The ceremony to pledge the 6,000 new fighters was presided over by a dozen sheiks - each draped in black robes trimmed with gold braiding - who signed the contract on behalf of tribesmen at a small U.S. outpost in north-central Iraq.
For about $275 a month - nearly the salary for the typical Iraqi policeman - the tribesmen will man about 200 security checkpoints beginning Dec. 7, supplementing hundreds of Iraqi forces already in the area."


Volunteers my a$$! Volunteers do it for free!!

And when the US money well dries up, the "tribesmen" will be right back shooting at US soldiers.

This is the only kind of "loyalty" a Muslim can have to a Kaffir.

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by gkc99 November 29, 2007 12:50 PM PST

"This story is further proof that liberals are losing their War Against All Americans (WAAA"--Posted by One_American


More $hit pouring out of One_A$$hole!

It''s the Neoconscum who have declared war on all Americans who aren''t billionaires and who support the Constitution. Only the Bushit billionaires and some goosesteppers who long for the reincarnation of their Fuhrer still believe in the Darth Bushit regime.

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by mbcsmith November 29, 2007 12:54 PM PST

Until Geoirge Bush called a national prime time address to the nation on national TV, an address to every American, and told us that Iraq had tried to buy yellowcake from Niger, launching us on an unending war that has cost us 3500+ American lives. Now, who''''s lie do you thnk was worse?Posted by rafterman1 at 11:16 AM : Nov 29, 2007

Hey LIB, just remember that Congressional investigations NEVER found that statement false. Today, Brit intelligence stands by it''s findings.
Also, LIBS don''t know what a LIE is. When Billdo went on TV he KNOWINGLY told a falsehood, Bush''s remarks, spoken in good faith have yet to be disproven regarding the yellowcake.

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by mbcsmith November 29, 2007 12:57 PM PST

It''''s the Neoconscum who have declared war on all Americans who aren''''t billionaires and who support the Constitution. Only the Bushit billionaires and some goosesteppers who long for the reincarnation of their Fuhrer still believe in the Darth Bushit regime.


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Typical LIB hatespeach. Do you have anything intelligent to say, or is your hatred of your president all you have. Oh, that''s right, you''re a LIB. No need to ask. JUST SHUT THE FVCK UP YOU MORON.

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by mbcsmith November 29, 2007 1:05 PM PST

Also wrong. The CIA told Bush the intelligence was incorrect before the SOTU. He used it anyway. But, as Bush can do no wrong in your eyes, it doesn''''t matter what the truth is.



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Posted by rafterman1 at 12:59 PM : Nov 29, 2007

Another LIB LIE. See that''s how it works. You know that to be false and you say it anyway.

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by mbcsmith November 29, 2007 1:13 PM PST

Posted by rafterman1 at 01:11 PM : Nov 29, 2007

You are citing wikipedia as evidence? what a moron. Try the U.S. Congressional investigations files.

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by mbcsmith November 29, 2007 1:16 PM PST

Posted by rafterman1 at 01:13 PM : Nov 29, 2007

Wikipedia posts are meaningless. Hurry up and SURRENDER LIB, we might win this thing.

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by gkc99 November 29, 2007 1:23 PM PST

"Do you have anything intelligent to say, or is your hatred of your president all you have. Oh, that''''s right, you''''re a LIB. No need to ask. JUST SHUT THE FVCK UP YOU MORON"--Posted by mbcsmith


I don''t hate Darth Bushit. I just regard the Darth Bushit administration like some dog feces I stepped in by accident and now have to scrape off my shoe--preferably on your face, goosestepper!

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by mbcsmith November 29, 2007 1:44 PM PST

Posted by gkc99 at 01:23 PM : Nov 29, 2007

come on LIB, you can admit it, we all know, YOU HATE YOUR PRESIDENT. Go ahead, no need to LIE. Fvckin LIBS have no sense.

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by hillaryin08 November 29, 2007 2:02 PM PST

Actually you have a pathologial hatred for the rich vented through Bush. The easy way to raise your own self esteem is to tear down someone who is better than yourself or berate someone who has accomplished more in one day of their life than you have in your entire life. Once President Bush is gone and Hillary takes over you may suffer from PTSD or something simular. Ask yourself this question, when hillary keeps America engaged in combat operations in Iraq and Afghanistan will you give her a pass?

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by krenz4 November 29, 2007 6:25 PM PST

And we trust these "born again freedom fighters" why?? Our boys better watch their backs or our own weapons will be their death. DONT TRUST EM!

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by speakinup November 29, 2007 7:30 PM PST

Hey ********** - Hillary is going to have to run on her own merits - the war is being won!

You are in denial.

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by sgtrds November 29, 2007 10:58 PM PST

The oval office is the world''''s largest hat and the shrub has an itty-bitty head.

Regards,

Posted by Nancy_Naive at 06:01 AM : Nov 29, 2007

Perfect analogy. Perfect.

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by sgtrds November 29, 2007 11:00 PM PST

come on LIB, you can admit it, we all know, YOU HATE YOUR PRESIDENT. Go ahead, no need to LIE. Fvckin LIBS have no sense.

Posted by mbcsmith at 01:44 PM : Nov 29, 2007

I''m an American and Bush is not my president. never has been and never will be. I have zero loyalty to him or anything he says. None.

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by libsluvsuvs November 30, 2007 2:17 AM PST

Posted by SgtRDS at 11:00 PM : Nov 29, 2007
+ report abuse

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yes you are an american who hates america..aka liberal

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by gti2006-2009 November 30, 2007 11:09 AM PST

About time people are stepping up to the plate in this part of the world and are willing to work with us..

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by pastdue1 November 30, 2007 11:48 AM PST

The Sunni''s are very smart. They know they will need protection from the Shiites one of these days. They also know that all they have to say is "al queda" and they can get anything they want from the Americans. They are smarter than the Bush administration; they are making plans for the day when they can make a run at power. But, this story does make good copy to take the focus off Iraq for this presidential campaign.

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by glaswolf December 1, 2007 11:03 PM PST

downtowner97 at 10:53 AM : Nov 29: You appear to be ingnorant of standard military policy not to cripple local economies by injecting inflationary wages. Death is cheap.

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[jetranger7]

I''ve said before, quit horsin around and lets get out the real stuff, FLAME THROWERS, HOWLITZERS, ROCKET LAUNCHERS HEAVILY ARTILLERY, THIS STANDIN AROUND MANIN check points and handin out cheese, has to end,,set the place on fire and burn it to hell !!!!!

[fibonacci_]

Do you really think that is a good idea?

[hillaryin08]

ok but Hillary is not getting us out of the fight either so.......whats your point liberal?

[mbcsmith]

The LIBS really need to hurry up and surrender before we win this thing. LIBS are sooo funny!

[mbcsmith]

The oval office is the world''''s largest hat and the shrub has an itty-bitty head.

Regards,


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Posted by Nancy_Naive at 06:01 AM : Nov 29, 2007

He''s winning a war that you want to surrender. Where does that put you on the food chain.

[mbcsmith]

Posted by Nancy_Naive at 08:33 AM : Nov 29, 2007

Typical LIB drivel. It is so sad that the party of FDR has become the Anti-American defeatist LIB party.

[antoniof123]

Typical LIB drivel. It is so sad that the party of FDR has become the Anti-American defeatist LIB party.

Posted by mbcsmith at 08:52 AM : Nov 29, 2007

Why is it that this person would say that about FDR he too like Bill Clinton is one of the most beloved Presidents in American history. Face it you can''t spin away the truth. This is a President that was elected Four times by the popular vote.

You can try to spin it like I read on a wing nut site that Buffet has a lot of money but he is not that smart. Showing once again that a wing nut is an idiot.

Good Luck, Good Night.

[mbcsmith]

Good Luck, Good Night.


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Posted by antoniof123 at 09:01 AM : Nov 29, 2007

You are such a waste of public education money. Read it again LIB. I''ll make it simple for you. FDR was a good president but HIS party is now a bunch of whiny, moaning anti-American surrender monkeys. LIBS.

[omega39-2009]

I''''ll make it simple for you. Ronald Reagan had astrologers running America
Posted by FloydZepp

Miss Cleo would have been better than the bunch we have in there now.

[mbcsmith]

Why is it that this person would say that about FDR he too like Bill Clinton is one of the most beloved Presidents in American history. Face it you can''''t spin away the truth. This is a President that was elected Four times by the popular vote.Posted by antoniof123 at 09:01 AM : Nov 29, 2007

President Bush won the largest number of voters in American history during the last presidential election. Billdo on the other hand never accomplished even a majority. Billdo was elected both times with less than 50 percent.

[prinzowhales]

The Sunnis in the north have very little choice but to side with the US--the Kurds aren''t enamoured with them...the Shi''ites could care less. This is how an imperialist manages a country...breaking down unity and playing one against the other...that is why the Oligarchy wants unlimited immigration in the US...to play white against brown and brown against black...

Here''s an article on OPERATION PLIERS in Venezuela... it gives the SOP on fracking with a democracy:

http://www.venezuelanalysis.com/analysis/2914

You''ll recall much of it from the 2000 and 2004 electoral thefts in the United States.

[mbcsmith]

Posted by rafterman1 at 09:49 AM : Nov 29, 2007

I''m glad you agree with my figures.

[omega39-2009]

I think the Shrub consults Miss Cleo for the important decisions....
Posted by FloydZepp

FloydZepp........
-WMDs
-Calling Gen Shinseki''s estimates "wildly off mark"
-Iraqi oil profits would pay for the war
-Yellow cake
-cakewalk
-Greeted as liberators
-throwing flowers and dancing in the streets
-Mission Accomplished

Even a fraud and charlatan like Miss Cleo couldn''t possibly be this consistently wrong.

[rowdytexan2]

What a bunch of *** I''m reading here!

The republicans still have to hang on to the idea that their vote for Mr. Bush hasn''t damaged this country for years to come. You people can''t handle the truth!

This is a totally manufactured peace! The neocons have pulled Al Queda back. Who do you think was paying them to come in and kill Iraqi''s? The Iraqi''s are not stupid. They know if they don''t get together with a show of force that the neocons will send Al Queda right back.

The next thing you''re going to hear is that Hunt Oil got the contracts for oil development in Iraq. It''s the worst job of bullying a country and stealing from them I''ve ever seen.

[omega39-2009]

President Bush won the largest number of voters in American history during the last presidential election. Billdo on the other hand never accomplished even a majority. Billdo was elected both times with less than 50 percent.
Posted by mbcsmith

And yet, after six years of you fruitcakes dragging him through the mud, he left office with a 72% job approval rating. Your "popular" president on the other hand, is languishing in the low 30''s and taking the GOP down with him.

[rowdytexan2]

Have you people actually not realized Mr. Bush hasn''t WON an election yet???

[mbcsmith]

Posted by RowdyTexan2 at 09:56 AM : Nov 29, 2007

LIBS are sooooo funny. Get over your hatred and your life will improve immensely.

[mbcsmith]

Posted by rafterman1 at 09:58 AM : Nov 29, 2007

Don''t you LIBs go to school? Read my original post moron! Billdo was an illegitimate president, probably like his ugly a$$ daughter. As you can see, President Bush won the largest number of popular vots in the history of presidential elections. Read it and weep LIBS.

[mbcsmith]

It''''s pathetic that you would still take a shot like that.




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Posted by rafterman1 at 10:05 AM : Nov 29, 2007

That kid was beat with an ugly stick.

[trillion1]

The truth never was a GOP strong suit.

[mbcsmith]

The truth never was a GOP strong suit.


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Posted by trillion1 at 10:21 AM : Nov 29, 2007

LIBS are soooo funny and selective in their memories. Remember when Billdo called a national prime time address to the nation on national TV, an address to every American, shook his finger at us and said "I never had sexual relations with that woman". That was a low point in the office off the American president that still stands today.

[downtowner97]

The bad guys are going to have a hard time buying off a checkpoint guard who makes $275 a month. He''ll just say "No! I don''t want your $100 to forget to check your trunk. It takes me only a couple weeks of risking my a$$ in the blistering heat to make that much.

It''s hilarious to think that with the trillions of dollars we spend on the war, we insult people who are willing to lay their lives on the line like that.

[one_american]

This story is further proof that liberals are losing their War Against All Americans (WAAA).

[gkc99]

"The ceremony to pledge the 6,000 new fighters was presided over by a dozen sheiks - each draped in black robes trimmed with gold braiding - who signed the contract on behalf of tribesmen at a small U.S. outpost in north-central Iraq.
For about $275 a month - nearly the salary for the typical Iraqi policeman - the tribesmen will man about 200 security checkpoints beginning Dec. 7, supplementing hundreds of Iraqi forces already in the area."


Volunteers my a$$! Volunteers do it for free!!

And when the US money well dries up, the "tribesmen" will be right back shooting at US soldiers.

This is the only kind of "loyalty" a Muslim can have to a Kaffir.

[gkc99]

"This story is further proof that liberals are losing their War Against All Americans (WAAA"--Posted by One_American


More $hit pouring out of One_A$$hole!

It''s the Neoconscum who have declared war on all Americans who aren''t billionaires and who support the Constitution. Only the Bushit billionaires and some goosesteppers who long for the reincarnation of their Fuhrer still believe in the Darth Bushit regime.

[mbcsmith]

Until Geoirge Bush called a national prime time address to the nation on national TV, an address to every American, and told us that Iraq had tried to buy yellowcake from Niger, launching us on an unending war that has cost us 3500+ American lives. Now, who''''s lie do you thnk was worse?Posted by rafterman1 at 11:16 AM : Nov 29, 2007

Hey LIB, just remember that Congressional investigations NEVER found that statement false. Today, Brit intelligence stands by it''s findings.
Also, LIBS don''t know what a LIE is. When Billdo went on TV he KNOWINGLY told a falsehood, Bush''s remarks, spoken in good faith have yet to be disproven regarding the yellowcake.

[mbcsmith]

It''''s the Neoconscum who have declared war on all Americans who aren''''t billionaires and who support the Constitution. Only the Bushit billionaires and some goosesteppers who long for the reincarnation of their Fuhrer still believe in the Darth Bushit regime.


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Typical LIB hatespeach. Do you have anything intelligent to say, or is your hatred of your president all you have. Oh, that''s right, you''re a LIB. No need to ask. JUST SHUT THE FVCK UP YOU MORON.

[mbcsmith]

Also wrong. The CIA told Bush the intelligence was incorrect before the SOTU. He used it anyway. But, as Bush can do no wrong in your eyes, it doesn''''t matter what the truth is.



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Posted by rafterman1 at 12:59 PM : Nov 29, 2007

Another LIB LIE. See that''s how it works. You know that to be false and you say it anyway.

[mbcsmith]

Posted by rafterman1 at 01:11 PM : Nov 29, 2007

You are citing wikipedia as evidence? what a moron. Try the U.S. Congressional investigations files.

[mbcsmith]

Posted by rafterman1 at 01:13 PM : Nov 29, 2007

Wikipedia posts are meaningless. Hurry up and SURRENDER LIB, we might win this thing.

[gkc99]

"Do you have anything intelligent to say, or is your hatred of your president all you have. Oh, that''''s right, you''''re a LIB. No need to ask. JUST SHUT THE FVCK UP YOU MORON"--Posted by mbcsmith


I don''t hate Darth Bushit. I just regard the Darth Bushit administration like some dog feces I stepped in by accident and now have to scrape off my shoe--preferably on your face, goosestepper!

[mbcsmith]

Posted by gkc99 at 01:23 PM : Nov 29, 2007

come on LIB, you can admit it, we all know, YOU HATE YOUR PRESIDENT. Go ahead, no need to LIE. Fvckin LIBS have no sense.

[hillaryin08]

Actually you have a pathologial hatred for the rich vented through Bush. The easy way to raise your own self esteem is to tear down someone who is better than yourself or berate someone who has accomplished more in one day of their life than you have in your entire life. Once President Bush is gone and Hillary takes over you may suffer from PTSD or something simular. Ask yourself this question, when hillary keeps America engaged in combat operations in Iraq and Afghanistan will you give her a pass?

[krenz4]

And we trust these "born again freedom fighters" why?? Our boys better watch their backs or our own weapons will be their death. DONT TRUST EM!

[speakinup]

Hey ********** - Hillary is going to have to run on her own merits - the war is being won!

You are in denial.

[sgtrds]

The oval office is the world''''s largest hat and the shrub has an itty-bitty head.

Regards,

Posted by Nancy_Naive at 06:01 AM : Nov 29, 2007

Perfect analogy. Perfect.

[sgtrds]

come on LIB, you can admit it, we all know, YOU HATE YOUR PRESIDENT. Go ahead, no need to LIE. Fvckin LIBS have no sense.

Posted by mbcsmith at 01:44 PM : Nov 29, 2007

I''m an American and Bush is not my president. never has been and never will be. I have zero loyalty to him or anything he says. None.

[libsluvsuvs]

Posted by SgtRDS at 11:00 PM : Nov 29, 2007
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yes you are an american who hates america..aka liberal

[gti2006-2009]

About time people are stepping up to the plate in this part of the world and are willing to work with us..

[pastdue1]

The Sunni''s are very smart. They know they will need protection from the Shiites one of these days. They also know that all they have to say is "al queda" and they can get anything they want from the Americans. They are smarter than the Bush administration; they are making plans for the day when they can make a run at power. But, this story does make good copy to take the focus off Iraq for this presidential campaign.

[glaswolf]

downtowner97 at 10:53 AM : Nov 29: You appear to be ingnorant of standard military policy not to cripple local economies by injecting inflationary wages. Death is cheap.