Audio: Gen. Peter Pace tours Ramadi on foot
posted at 6:14 pm on July 17, 2007 by Bryan
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Iraq’s entire al-Anbar province was once written off for lost. Six months ago it was dominated by al Qaeda and full of terrorist monsters. Now it’s awakened to the point that the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff was able to amble about a marketplace and buy fruits and vegetables and shake hands with locals in Ramadi. The segment below is from CNN’s American Morning, earlier today.
Did Pace have security with him? Yes, he did. But according to the CNN reporter who accompanied Gen. Pace on his tour, the security wasn’t as extensive as that which Sen. John McCain required when he walked through Baghdad a few months ago. CNN’s correspondent, who promised to deliver video of the stroll before too long, described the security as “pretty standard stuff.”
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CNN’s Barbara Starr: “it’s an extraordinary thing.”
Time to pull out before we win!
TheBigOldDog on July 17, 2007 at 6:23 PM
A free press preserves itself by exercising itself. How grand a plan our constitutional framers had.
It should seem surreal to recieve instant dispatches from war correspondents. But, it doesn’t. It’s the expected norm.
A tangential point for sure. But sometimes, I’m just damn glad to be an American.
The Race Card on July 17, 2007 at 6:26 PM
I can’t imagine walking in Ramadi. That place was the most dangerous place on earth last time I was in Iraq.
Guardian on July 17, 2007 at 6:27 PM
The interesting question is, what would happen if OBL walked through Ramadi?
Oh, right. Dead terrorists don’t walk.
Editor on July 17, 2007 at 6:33 PM
I done said it last night and I’m fixin’ to say it again:
Pulling out of Iraq now is like pulling out of the war in the Pacific on the first of June, 1942, or pulling out of the war in the ETO on the first of June, 1944
Janos Hunyadi on July 17, 2007 at 6:37 PM
……….and Barbara Starr and Candy Crowley are still tied for First Place in The Uglist Left-wing Hag on Television contest……
Janos Hunyadi on July 17, 2007 at 6:39 PM
It makes one weep that this great American man was attempted to be shamed by one of the weakest American men around, the Reaper – if we wouldn’t know better which one of them still is a real man.
Entelechy on July 17, 2007 at 6:46 PM
General Pace walking on the streets of Ramadi, while our poor congressmen sleep on cots in D.C. arguing for our
surrender to Al Quaida.
gary on July 17, 2007 at 6:47 PM
My daughter has a friend who is currently in Ramadi, due to come home shortly for his mid tour leave I might add, and he has said it is quiet. He was on a regularly scheduled rotation that just happened to fall in with the “surge”. All of his buddies have told him for the love of g_d don’t watch the news once he gets home. They told him to go out have a good time, visit family and friends but leave the damn tv off when it time for news. He isn’t old enough to drink legally but I have already let him know I have a couple of Samuel Adams in the fridge waiting on him.
LakeRuins on July 17, 2007 at 6:47 PM
Janos Hunyadi – “Pulling out of Iraq now is like pulling …. out of the war in the ETO on the first of June, 1944″
Janos Hunyadi
So are you saying that the vast majority of American troops can leave Iraq in about a year?
MB4 on July 17, 2007 at 6:58 PM
What a sad day in our country. I wonder if Reid is brave enough to walk through the halls of congress w/out a security detail. I think not. I’m sure he keeps his dog (aka the San Fran Gran Nan) quite close…
Go Pace, Go!
Califemme on July 17, 2007 at 7:06 PM
Well said – they’re holding their worthless slumber party. One side will celebrate in vain, the other will yawn.
Entelechy on July 17, 2007 at 7:06 PM
Now lets see if I have this correct: the threat to America is AQ [not to be confused with AQ in Iraq also known as AQ in Mesopotamia, which only took the AQ name as they thought that it would be "cool"], a terrorist organization located throughout the world with Osama probably still alive, yet Gen Pace is mentioning sending even more troops to nation-build Iraq while the Iraqi government plans to take the entire month of August off because it is too hot while American troops do the melting and the heavy lifting.
Am I reading this right?
Someone better check the air ventilation system at the Pentagon.
MB4 on July 17, 2007 at 7:07 PM
Helen Thomas.
BKennedy on July 17, 2007 at 7:10 PM
MB4 on July 17, 2007 at 7:07 PM
Do you mean there was no August in Iraq in the previous 5 years?
LakeRuins on July 17, 2007 at 7:11 PM
The threat to America is AQ, the effort of the US armed forces needs to focus on capturing and destroying AQ, not nation building in Iraq while the Iraqi government takes the entire month of August off and continues dithering governing their own sovereign country.
MB4 on July 17, 2007 at 7:18 PM
I’m sorry but, part of securing a nation includes nation building. Now I agree it is absurd for the Iraqi govertment to do that. One thing you have to realize though is that they are a very young country and they will make mistakes. I mean we’ve been doing it for more than 200 years and look how screwed up our congress is.
boomer on July 17, 2007 at 7:29 PM
The Iraqi people are fighting because their government is dysfunctional, because of Paul Bremers brilliant ideas to fire (de-bathify) anyone with competence in the Iraqi government and to dismiss the entire Iraqi Army from active service.
Brilliant ideas.
MB4 on July 17, 2007 at 7:39 PM
boomer – “One thing you have to realize though is that they are a very young country and they will make mistakes.”
Do not confuse mistakes with crimes.
MB4 on July 17, 2007 at 7:40 PM
I’m truly shocked that CNN is covering this…what the General is doing is counter-productive to their agenda.
jediwebdude on July 17, 2007 at 7:43 PM
I am so bone-weary of that old, discredited talking point. Where do you think the #$%& Iraqi military was when we finished running through them? 1) Dead, 2) Fled, or 3) Both.
The vast bulk of their Army was made up of peasant conscripts. They unassed the AO/melted away. The pros were the one who were dead (because they had stood and fought) or the surviving Republican Guard. Sure, why don’t we tell the good people of Iraq “we are here to liberate you! Now if you’ll excuse us, it’s pay day for the Hammurabi Brigade”.
Cripes, you sound like you would have argued for keeping the Waffen SS under arms in 1945…
major john on July 17, 2007 at 7:57 PM
Well, I guess I just don’t see how taking off the month of August is a crime. Inappropriate? Very! Perhaps there is something else I have missed and you will be kind enough to fill me in.
boomer on July 17, 2007 at 7:57 PM
Yes, but tech-ni-cally Helen is a “print” “journalist”, so she’s Non-eligible
Janos Hunyadi on July 17, 2007 at 7:58 PM
John Murtha meet Peter Pace……. Gen Pace is a Marine look in awe and wonder how your star fell.
MNDavenotPC on July 17, 2007 at 7:58 PM
advice: don’t feed trolls, especially those still in high school
Janos Hunyadi on July 17, 2007 at 7:59 PM
The current surge strategy as designed by Freddy Kagan in the American Enterprise Institute is designed to buy time for the Iraqi government to stand on its own; to pass reconciliation legislation amongst the Sunni/Shia/Kurd as well as sharing oil revenues; the same Iraqi government that plans to take the entire month of August off while America does its heavy lifting.
MB4 on July 17, 2007 at 8:04 PM
major john – “Cripes, you sound like you would have argued for keeping the Waffen SS under arms in 1945…”
No I don’t.
MB4 on July 17, 2007 at 8:06 PM
Saudis’ role in Iraq insurgency outlined
Sunni extremists from Saudi Arabia make up half the foreign fighters in Iraq, many suicide bombers, a U.S. official says.
MB4 on July 17, 2007 at 8:08 PM
LOL ok my bad.
boomer on July 17, 2007 at 8:11 PM
This person has probably finished High School and he has been in Iraq for a long time and his comment displays just how worthwhile it is for America’s continued sacrifice:
Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki said on Saturday, “We say in full confidence that we are able, God willing, to take the responsibility completely in running the security file if the international forces withdraw at any time they want.”
The democratically elected leader of the sovereign nation of Iraq, fully recognized by the United Nations and international law, has just stated he has full confidence that we are able, God willing, to take the responsibility. What part of that do you license anyone else to reason they have the right to say otherwise?
MB4 on July 17, 2007 at 8:23 PM
Janos Hunyadi -
boomer on July 17, 2007 at 7:57 PM
advice: don’t feed trolls, especially those still in high school”
People often say that I look young for my age.
Usually not that young though, but thank you for the compliment. It is appreciated.
MB4 on July 17, 2007 at 8:26 PM
General Pace may have failed to end the Iraq war but he is still an honorable man.
When the Dems declared that he could not be confirmed for more time as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs. Secretary Gates asked him to resign. General Pace declined to resign while Marines were under fire.
Senator Reid may have failed to end the Iraq war but he is still majority leader.
Yes the post ends here.
TunaTalon on July 17, 2007 at 8:26 PM
General Pace is a very honorable man.
MB4 on July 17, 2007 at 8:30 PM
The Dems must be wondering what Pace is doing. How can he do something like this and mess up their surrender planing.
duff65 on July 17, 2007 at 9:10 PM
MB4
We all hear you loud and clear. Everything is wrong, nothing can work, we are helpless, corrupt and incompetant.
We should put our tails between our legs and run away.
You and Avi Lewis should get married.
peacenprosperity on July 17, 2007 at 9:11 PM
peacenprosperity, NOT we, Commander Guy/Decider who has gone off his toot about Iraq and thinks that if the United States does not keep sufficient troop mass in Iraq, the orbital stability of the Earth will become unbalanced and all Muslim
terrorists will slide into America OR that he will have to admit that he did a charly foxtrot.
As to your last item, you marry Helen Thomas first, let me know when you have consummate your marriage and had children together and I will get back to you.
MB4 on July 17, 2007 at 10:07 PM
MB4
Your irrational hatred of George Bush and the US is very telling. A little projection, it seems.
Why do you hate your parents?
peacenprosperity on July 17, 2007 at 11:19 PM
peacenprosperity, I love my country, my former Army and my parents, that is why I “hate” Bush.
MB4 on July 17, 2007 at 11:34 PM
BTW, I voted for him both times.
Maybe I am trying for redemtion.
MB4 on July 18, 2007 at 12:07 AM
Foul on play. Btw, haven’t you been banned before under another name? I just have a feeling that’s all.
- The Cat
P.S. Double post, triple post . . you going for a record here?
MirCat on July 18, 2007 at 12:42 AM
God’s Speed to those doing the job. As if it weren’t hard enough. Finally… a generation giving “the greatest generation” a run for their money. Thank God for ‘em.
Griz on July 18, 2007 at 1:01 AM
-reading back-
MB, you are one sick puppy, dog.
Griz on July 18, 2007 at 1:21 AM
Slowly, dimly, and in spite of the “good news” blackout, some in the traitor MSM are getting the message. Or more correctly, letting the message get through to the people.
I did NOT hear this story on the New Hour.
I did NOT hear this story on the network news that I watched.
But it got through on CNN.
And anyone who knows anything about the military knows that 4 star generals, especially the Chariman of the Joint Chiefs, DO NOT blithly stroll about in a hot battlefield.
Most of the traitor MSM has been working overtime to tell the story that we have already lost in Iraq. From US KIA and suicide bombings, to “analysts” pontificating on how the surge is not working.
And then Gen Pace goes strolls through the marketplace. There won’t be any reporters laughing like they did at McCain when he told a similar story this time.
Somebody ought to ask Harry Reid, Carl Levin, and Dick “The Turbin” Durbin about this, on the record, and see how badly they stammer out an answer.
georgej on July 18, 2007 at 3:29 AM
-reading back-
MB, you are one sick puppy, dog.
Griz on July 18, 2007 at 1:21 AM
Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without.
- Confucius
When we see persons of a contrary character, we should turn inwards and examine ourselves.
- Confucius
MB4 on July 18, 2007 at 5:09 AM
“Pretty standard stuff I’d say.” Hmmmm, sounds like we’d better surrender quick.
oakpack on July 18, 2007 at 6:35 AM
Amazing what a reporter can find if they get out of the green zone. Karin looks like hell with the 50’s hairdo.
Wade on July 18, 2007 at 9:24 AM
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