As far as political progress goes, there doesn’t seem to be any there, there. More like a lot of anti-there, there.

5 more Iraqi ministers boycott Cabinet

“BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraq’s political crisis worsened Monday as five more ministers announced a boycott of Cabinet meetings — leaving the embattled prime minister’s unity government with no members affiliated with Sunni political factions.”

The new cracks in Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki’s government appeared even as U.S. military officials sounded cautious notes of progress on security, citing strides against insurgents linked to al-Qaeda in Iraq but also new threats from Iranian-backed Shiite militias.

The Allawi bloc, a mixture of Sunnis and Shiites, cited al-Maliki’s failure to respond to its demands for political reform. The top Sunni political bloc already had pulled its six ministers from the 40-member Cabinet of al-Maliki, a Shiite, last week.”

Just carrying on the work of the UN. I wonder if he lost his pension since he didn’t seem to kill any Jews.

1) Iraq is not a generational war, at least not for Americans as there is no way in hell that “we” are going to keep troops there for generations.
MB4 on August 6, 2007 at 1:03 AM

Are we not still in Japan? Germany?

Iraq is only a single front of this war. We’ve only begun this struggle. Multi-Generational defines the situation we find ourselves in very accurately, whether we vacate Iraq or not.

Many of us may not want to be at war with our enemies, but our enemies damn sure are at war with us.

NewsBusters.org – Exposing Liberal Media Bias

As NewsBusters reported Monday, two analysts for the liberal think tank the Brookings Institution published a rather shocking op-ed at the New York Times expressing extraordinary optimism about how the sur…

“WASHINGTON — As an American-born spokesman for Al Qaeda threatens to blow up American embassies abroad, intelligence gleaned from last month’s British “doctors plot” of car bombers suggests that a Qaeda cell is on the loose in the American homeland.”

Did they fly over here on a visa?

Did they come across our open borders?

Or did they beam over here from Iraq?

1) Iraq is not a generational war, at least not for Americans as there is no way in hell that “we” are going to keep troops there for generations.

2) The Iraq war is not going to determine the future of civilization. The guy sounds like AlStrata. Save the cheerleader, save the world. For crying out loud it is not WWII. It is not Earth versus Mars. Most of Al Q (the real Al Q is in Pakistan)

3) Terrorists can come to America from across our almost wide open borders. Plus the Bush administration has been issuing visas to the Middle East, including Saudi Arabia like there has been a fire sale. They are not going to beam over here from Iraq. The 9/11 terrorists did not come from Iraq, they came mostly from Saudi Arabia. Most British terrorists come from Pakistan. Most of the real Al Q is in Pakistan rebuilding and being finance by Saudis not Iraqis.

4) It is a possibility, not a sure thing that hundreds of thousands of Iraqis will die. If they do it will not be at the hands of AL Q (the real Al Q) or Al Q in Iraq (not the real Al Q) as there are not enough of them to do that. If hundreds of thousands of Iraqis die if “we” leave, it would be non Al Q Sunnis killing Shiites and visa versa.

5) It may well be the Dems road to the Presidency and bigger majorities in congress. Looks that way now anywho as 70% of Americans now want to get out and a lot of them will vote in 2008

6) Wanting to stay in Iraq does not make one a statesman. Wanting to get out does not rule out ones being a statesman.

7) This hyper Iraqi centric view of the universe is getting ridiculous.

8) Let the counter battery fire commence!!!

I heard Pollack call the Brookings Institution a “non-partisan” think tank during that interview.

The other fellow who was like, “Yeah, I’m voting for Hillary!” didn’t.

Now damn the torpedo’s and full steam ahead.
canopfor on August 5, 2007 at 11:04 PM

Perhaps on rising confidence, Defence Sec Gates seems to agree with you.

Thank you John.
Now damn the torpedo’s and full steam ahead.

To your last paragraph, the MSM told us Israel was getting its butt kicked in Lebanon, they picked their usual side and told us how evil Israel was and how the Terrorist were winning, but wait, we found out recently that 1 week more, and they surrender, but the MSM won it for the enemy, which is a victory for MSM.

canopfor on August 5, 2007 at 10:11 PM

Sorry John,I,m a Canadian,very interested in American
politics.Love the United States Military.Only expreience i
had was four years ,long ago in The Navy League.
Petty Officer,second highest rank.

I needed a good commenting name,love your site,and ace,s.
Hence CAN ,your blog OPFOR.—-CANOPFOR.

Well hell, that’s awesomely awesome.

With a straight face.

The people who truly showed good judgment on Iraq predicted the consequences that actually ensued but also rightly evaluated the motives that led to the action.

Who might that be? The only one I can think of is Pat Robertson! I remember 911 and Saddam already used WMDs on the Kurds. Bush didn’t lie. We couldn’t afford to let WMDs fall into the hands of terrorists. Whether they were shipped into Syria, or destroyed, we may never know. Regardless, the choice to invade Iraq was the right one. Just ask Clinton and Kerry fours years ago. What if we hadn’t and terrorists were now getting supplied by Hussein? I really wish there was less bickering and more backbone to win this fight. What was the quote from the Congressman from Iowa on that excellent HA interview? They hate Bush more than they love America. That and their hunger for power.

Sorry John,I,m a Canadian,very interested in American
politics.Love the United States Military.Only expreience i
had was four years ,long ago in The Navy League.
Petty Officer,second highest rank.

I needed a good commenting name,love your site,and ace,s.
Hence CAN ,your blog OPFOR.—-CANOPFOR.

The various provinces (Anbar, etc.) are disconnecting themselves from the national electric power grid, to protect their own assets from the “cascade” effects of the regular sabotage of the electric power utilities in Baghdad. (In the electric power business over here, this is SOP when a major power user or supplier goes down- think of the New York blackouts going back to 1965.) By doing so, they ensure that their local customers have power for lighting, cooking, and refrigeration- the latter being critical for food supplies in a region where daytime summer temperatures often exceed 40-45 deg.C (100-110 deg.F). These provinces are doing quite well, by all accounts (I got this from AP), in spite of what is happening in Baghdad.

But to the MSM, Baghdad is the entire country, and the whole story.

They rarely go outside of the capital, in fact most rarely leave their network/news service/etc./HQs. They just sit and write up the latest bombing/murder/whatever of the “insurgents” (they are never called “Terrorists”, and “al-Qaeda” is a word that is never, ever uttered in this context), and then send it off to New York so the newspapers, TV networks- and of course the DNC- can tell Mr. , Mrs., Ms. and everyone else in America that “There’s a civil war going on, it’s all our fault, we have to get out. now.”

Actually, I agree.

We need to get the news media out of Baghdad now.

Because as long as they are there, the terrorists will be there, creating their bomb-blast “photo-ops” to help the MSM convince the rest of us that they cannot be beaten. And the MSM, either willingly, or through sheer laziness and stupidity coupled with their own prejudices, are more than happy to oblige.

Thirty-nine years ago, the news media convinced America that the Tet offensive was a massive defeat for the U.S., U.N., and South Vietnamese forces, when in fact it was the Viet Cong who were literally destroyed in the worst defeat inflicted on an army in the field since World War Two. I am sure that the terrorists, who are no fools regarding the media, are perfectly well aware of this, and are doing everything they can to present the media with a chance to repeat their performance.

Just as they are certain that the media are panting for the opportunity to do it.

cheers

eon

John from OPFOR on August 5, 2007 at 9:23 PM

I’m going to guess it’s Canadian Opposing Force.

The latter, I’m guessing.

You know it.

God only knows what’s going to happen if the worst fears prove true and the national grid collapses.

Was it Totten or Yon who talked about the real issue being gas? Seems everybody who can has long since moved to private generators and having the gas to run them is a critical issue.

And now these guys from the Liberal side are saying
it,s(surge) is working.We know the truth a while back
that it could and would work.

Question is when do these two from the (libtard),er
Liberals get TARRED and FEATHERED by their own.

The latter, I’m guessing.

I’m thinking you’re right. The whole “progress in Iraq” thing wouldn’t fit most of the MSM’s agenda.