Comments on: US gets quicker on the draw

By: Mojave Mark

Mojave Mark — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 05:05:57 +0000

The Dhimmicrats just can’t seem to get their surrender together. By November it will have been too late as we’ll have won.

By: canopfor

canopfor — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 02:32:38 +0000

This is sounding better and better all the time,
and it appears that AQ can’t find a rock to crawl
under,and thats great!

With the deafening silence coming from the left on
Irag,and the War on Terror,just a guess,but maybe
the left know’s Irag is slowly returning to normal!

For the left,we don’t seem to be hearing them in
their shrill voices to surrender,so far at this
election process!

By: Squid Shark

Squid Shark — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 01:44:14 +0000

Sorry about that, I guess there should of been a smiley after that post for Pelosi fans so they know it’s joke?

Since I am a Republican and at best a person who does not care for Pelosi’s policies (I am active duty military so I will not say anything about her job as speaker), I am assuming that you are talking to someone else.

The fact that the Democrats are causing as many problems for our side in Iraq as the “other” enemy should be obvious to all, even if you don’t comprehend sarcasm.

I do understand sarcasm, but I guess you have not met many hard-core righties, to whom that would be said with only a little bit of whimsy. The Dems arent the only ones causing the problem in Iraq though.

“What’s your side Squidzo, Obama for change?”
McCain, Heningzo :P I despise Obama.

By: jimbo2008

jimbo2008 — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 01:17:17 +0000

Their arrival from the front in Afghanistan shows once again how critical AQ itself believes Iraq to be. They want to defeat us on this front very badly — and if we withdraw, they will flood Iraq with their terrorists.

Yes Sir, Cap’n. But I think you stopped a little short in that last sentence, and if you permit me, I will finish it for you: …”they will flood Iraq with their terrorists” and perhaps control the entire country AND IT’S OIL RESOURCES AND REVENUES TO ESCALATE THEIR TERRORISM ANOTHER MAGNITUDE WORLDWIDE.
This is exactly what we face if we cut & run in Iraq: worldwide terrorism the likes of which no one has ever seen.

By: carbon_footprint

carbon_footprint — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 01:05:54 +0000

If you notice lately the democrats have changed their point of attack on the war to the financial costs. First it was that we could not win the war, then that the surge would not work, and after that, the premise that there was no political progress there, vis-a-vis the benchmarks being met.

By: Hening

Hening — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 01:03:27 +0000

Squid Shark on March 2, 2008 at 5:28 PM

Sorry about that, I guess there should of been a smiley after that post for Pelosi fans so they know it’s joke?

The fact that the Democrats are causing as many problems for our side in Iraq as the “other” enemy should be obvious to all, even if you don’t comprehend sarcasm.

What’s your side Squidzo, Obama for change?

By: landlines

landlines — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 23:03:34 +0000

way to go ! but the surge is not working right??

robo on March 2, 2008 at 9:56 AM

I think it’s the blue serge suit and/or pants-suit that’s not working for the Dem’s…

By: MrLynn

MrLynn — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 22:47:57 +0000

McCain is correct to state that the decision to go into Iraq is in the past and what is important now is what we do going forward.

The War in Iraq is critical to regional stability. Failure to win in Iraq will result in the “Lebanonization” of the country (weak central govt, violent factions and the use of the the area as a staging ground for regional proxy wars). . .

moxie_neanderthal on March 2, 2008 at 10:14 AM

This is all true, but I wish McCain would stop dodging the question whether the resumption of the Iraq war (which began in 1990) was the correct decision. It certainly was, and McCain knows it, and should be defending George W. Bush for making it.

Sure, arguably the Bush administration misjudged the situation after capturing Baghdad, but the decision to take out Saddam was the right one, dammit!

By: Squid Shark

Squid Shark — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 22:37:22 +0000

She’s too busy throwing balls down airplane isles to amuse her staff/media and he’s too busy posing for pictures where he looks messiahlike.

The Huckster does this too, with oranges, Reagan as well, some think he started it.

By: Dr Evil

Dr Evil — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 22:35:35 +0000

Sorry this is the McCain links. Chickaboomer is a media industry blog.

http://standupformccain.com/

By: Dr Evil

Dr Evil — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 22:34:07 +0000

Somebody thinks McCain is the choice, well according to the blog roll many think McCain is the choice.

http://chickaboomer.blogspot.com/2008/02/black-friday-citadel-gores-core-more.html

By: Squid Shark

Squid Shark — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 22:32:03 +0000

So, for those bleeding-heart “progressives” so upset about those poor Al Qaeda and Taliban terrorists held at Guantanamo Prison-hey, take a reality-break: we could have legally just shot them all on the spot.)

DavePa on March 2, 2008 at 1:51 PM

This is true, for thos at GTMO captured on the battlefield but what about the “suspected terrorists” we pulled out of other countries?

By: Squid Shark

Squid Shark — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 22:28:04 +0000

AQ and the Democrats are throwing everything they’ve got at the US in Iraq. So when do military helicopters start taking out Democratic vehicles in DC, which might be more effective.

Hening on March 2, 2008 at 8:26 AM

Nice, advocating assasination of the other political party is a great way to get people to vote our way!

By: labrat

labrat — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 21:20:07 +0000

Gunfire from a mosque?

And maybe sent a little note to the Commander-in-Chief himself.

profitsbeard on March 2, 2008 at 9:59 AM

Somehow I’m afraid this will not be brought up in the next briefing.

By: 24K lady

24K lady — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 21:13:26 +0000

Physicla s/b – physical (I make coffee stronger than Starbucks…..time to cut back some!)

By: 24K lady

24K lady — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 21:10:50 +0000

Anyone holding their breath to hear what Herr Billowery or Obama have to say about it? She’s too busy throwing balls down airplane isles to amuse her staff/media and he’s too busy posing for pictures where he looks messiahlike.

Thank you Davepa@1:51PM on the quotes from the Geneva Convention…..our rules of engagement appear to have been tweaked a bit to protect our enemy’s culture than for the physicla protection of our combat personnel. Let’s blame it on Pelosi and Reid, throw in Murtha for good measure. I’ll volunteer to bake their humble pie.

By: labrat

labrat — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 20:58:18 +0000

Jar-Jar: “Meesa hates doze mee-mee-meeeessiles!”

(BOOOOOOM!)

Tony737 on March 2, 2008 at 9:37 AM

*hurridly scrolling through comments*

Dang, Tony!! Beat me again.

By: oakpack

oakpack — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 20:16:18 +0000

AQ and the Democrats are throwing everything they’ve got at the US in Iraq. So when do military helicopters start taking out Democratic vehicles in DC, which might be more effective.

Hening on March 2, 2008 at 8:26 AM

Suweet!

By: Bubba Redneck

Bubba Redneck — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 19:07:01 +0000

Say bye bye Jar!!

By: Kini

Kini — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 19:00:57 +0000

Reid to Pelosi – We can still loose this war yet.

By: Mommynator

Mommynator — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 19:00:33 +0000

Hooah! More dead tangos!

By: Travis1

Travis1 — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 18:59:37 +0000

Harry Reid’s Army is getting its A$$ kicked.

By: 98fromCA

98fromCA — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 18:59:03 +0000

About time we whacked these people instead of thinking about “Rehabilitation”or “Negotiations”.
Also, the side benefit: Tells Iraqis–don’t screw with us.

By: DavePa

DavePa — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 18:51:26 +0000

BL@CKBIRD,
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Ref. “gunfire from a mosque” and “who in the top realms of policy came up with the Mosque immunity concept?”.
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The 3rd Geneva Convention of 1949 states that places of worship, hospitals, schools, etc. have immunity from military attack.
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HOWEVER, the Geneva Convention also states that if one side uses a place of worship, e.g. a mosque, for military purposes, using such as a place from which to fire at the other side, that place of worship loses it’s immunity.
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The attacked party has the right to self-defense and counter-attack, using all “reasonable measures” that are militarily necessary to protect itself and defeat the enemy.
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The attackers who initiated fire from the mosque are themselves guilty of a war crime for doing that and it’s they, not those who fire back, who are held legally accountable for all damage or destruction done to the previously-protected site.
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Additionally, the Geneva Convention also specifically defines three types of persons in warfare:
1. civilians, who are immune from military attack;
2. lawful combatants, who must wear distinctive uniform or insignia clearly showing their conbatant status; also must adhere to the laws of warfare; be organized under a command structure and taking lawful orders from a formal entity (normally a sovereign state)
3. unlawful combatants, which category includes spies, saboteurs, otherwise lawul combatants who are captured in the other side’s uniform; and terrorists. After the briefest of summary proceedings or procedures, ALL unlawful combatants may legally be summarily executed on the spot.
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(As an example of this: During the Battle of the Bulge in WW2, the German Army made use of German soldiers dropped by parachute behind American lines, wearing US Army uniforms. Their purpose was to create as much confusion, havoc and sabotage as possible. A large number of those German soldiers in US Army uniform were captured and, after brief summary court martials in the field, were put up in front of firing squads. If anyone is curious about this, google it and you can even see online photos of the executions.
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So, for those bleeding-heart “progressives” so upset about those poor Al Qaeda and Taliban terrorists held at Guantanamo Prison-hey, take a reality-break: we could have legally just shot them all on the spot.)

By: Dr Evil

Dr Evil — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 18:48:35 +0000

Johan Klaus,

RollingStone has a readership and when I started reading Matt Taibbi’s articles on politics in the RollingStone, I took a look at what else they were printing in the same vain hard news opinion pieces. Is this influencing anyone’s opinion of the Surge? I don’t see anyone questioning these recent articles (The Myth of the Surge) & (McCain Ressurected)