Yep things are just great in Iraq, keep
believing tjhe propaganda

daileyck1 on March 17, 2008 at 4:15 PM

Yep, so much better in Iraq that the death (murder) rate is lower than in Philly or Washington D.C. in the past six months—-but who’s countin’ right dck1

You say…foggy!

J_Gocht on March 17, 2008 at 4:29 PM

You’re doing all the yammering.

But do go on, you’re grasp of reality is only matched by your ability to express yourself coherently.

Do you Sir; understand that President GW Bush fought the first four years of the War in Afghanistan and at least the first or more years of his “Great Mis-Adventure into Mesopotamia” with the forces that President Clinton left in place before President Bush’s election?

Military forces and resources take years, perhaps even decades to place into finely honed operational mode.

President Bush didn’t turn on a miraculous switch of improvement in the status of our standing military forces when he was elected commander-in-chief.

There was no magical switch!

The only resource at his disposal was President Clinton’s decimated and demoralized military structure?

Right…?

What’s a President to do…?
What’s a Commander-in-Chief to do…?

“Hell’s bells Dick! We cut us some sorry damn ears off with the Northern Alliance, right!”

“Whata’ yah think we cut some cajones off my daddy’s nemesis in Iraq?”
“Get your olde buds… some damn oil wells, Dick”

You say…foggy!

(via lgf) No, the left-wing hasn’t decided to endorse the War on Terrorism and the American Invasion Liberation of Iraq. Over at Kos they’re calling for an invasion of America, so we’ll get a taste of our own medicine, so to speak.
As…

METHODOLOGY – This poll for ABC News, the BBC, ARD and NHK was conducted
Feb. 12-20, 2008, through in-person interviews with a random national sample of 2,228
Iraqi adults, including oversamples in Anbar province, Basra city, Mosul, Kirkuk and the
Sadr City section of Baghdad. The results have a 2.5-point error margin. Field work by
D3 Systems of Vienna, Va., and KA Research Ltd. of Istanbul.

Now I wonder why they chose to have oversamples from those areas? Still wasn’t enough to skew the poll decisevly in their favor.

No thanks to me, “foggy”. I had my spell checker, turned on!
I will however; take the credit…!
Thanks again.

“Bug squashed” fogw.

No mas!

I’ve come to notice a certain proclivity for the ad hominine attack on this board…?

I much prefer courteous discourse to writings’ on rest room walls…!

J_Gocht on March 17, 2008 at 1:27 PM

I don’t consider a mild statement of fact an ad hominem attack, but you seem to be the expert around here – I can tell by your spelling.

An ad hominem attack on der Slickmeister would go more like this …… “That lying f*ck of a president should have spent less time unzipping his fly for double-wide interns and more time shoring up our military for an uncertain world.”

See the diff, troll?

And don’t expect me to go back and forth with you and your baiting. You’ve just been squashed like a bug …. man up and go away.

I may be more than a bit geezerly, but; I’ve figured it out!

A writer and author…!

Damn, ‘nuff said!

One of my olde CO’s told me the same thing before I went before the board.

“Gocht, make damn sure your finger nails are clean, some anal-retentive will sure as hell check that out!”

Thanks for the reminder…Holmes!
You weren’t one of my olde CO’s…are you…?

So why then, my dear Holmes; didn’t Aleph share his resource with the rest of us wilderness birds…?

J_Gocht on March 17, 2008 at 1:34 PM

Always look at the hands first, dear J_Gocht. Then cuffs, trouser-knees, and boots.

The more bizarre a thing is the less mysterious it proves to be.

“There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.
Holmes on March 17, 2008 at 1:22 PM”

So why then, my dear Holmes; didn’t Aleph share his resource with the rest of us wilderness birds…?

I’ve come to notice a certain proclivity for the ad hominine attack on this board…?

I much prefer courteous discourse to writings’ on rest r

That’s what you resort to when you’re losing the debate — name-calling and ad hominem attacks.
- Michelle Malkin

All the left-wing antiwar denials of progress in Iraq look all the more pathetic when for much of the population the most immediate menace is an enemy whose presence long preceded any of those of the current war……

fogw on March 17, 2008 at 12:37 PM

Thanks Billly Jeff.

I’ve come to notice a certain proclivity for the ad hominine attack on this board…?

I much prefer courteous discourse to writings’ on rest room walls…!

Do you have an open mind, Aleph?

J_Gocht on March 17, 2008 at 1:04 PM

You do occasionally find a carrion crow among the eagles.

Do you mind sharing, Aleph? Just what radio program might that be?
Why; perhaps you’re listening to them calling right now?

Yes indeed; they, certainly do call all the time…!

J_Gocht on March 17, 2008 at 1:14 PM

There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.

“…I often listen to a radio program to which active-duty service personnel frequently call in, and I can tell you that the optimism, confidence and morale that I hear in their voices truly is sky high….”
Aleph on March 17, 2008 at 12:41 PM

Do you mind sharing, Aleph? Just what radio program might that be?
Why; perhaps you’re listening to them calling right now?

Yes indeed; they, certainly do call all the time…!

“Those are probably just some phony soldiers cherry picked by some leftist cut and runners.”
Aleph on March 17, 2008 at 12:41 PM

Do you have an open mind, Aleph?

“The U.S. Military Index is based on a survey of 3,437 officers holding the rank of major or lieutenant commander and above from across the services, active duty and retired, general officers and field-grade officers.
http://www.foreignpolicy.com/story/cms.php?story_id=4198&page=8
“

What do the fine men and women that work with the good General Petraeus, think?

The U.S. Military Index
The Next War
http://www.foreignpolicy.com/story/cms.php?story_id=4198&page=1

J_Gocht on March 17, 2008 at 9:21 AM

Those are probably just some phony soldiers cherry picked by some leftist cut and runners.

The war is going extremely well. You’d never know it from the defeatist surrender talk of the cut and run surrender monkey democrats and their fifth-columnist uber left-wing media allies, but the fact is that the Iraq War has been and is a roaring success by every meaningful standard. I often listen to a radio program to which active-duty service personnel frequently call in, and I can tell you that the optimism, confidence and morale that I hear in their voices truly is sky high.

The only one recurring sour note comes from the realization that if not for the aid and comfort provided to the Al-Qaeda terrorists in Iraq by the America-hating liberals and democrats in this country, our boys job would likely at this point be all but finished, ready to hand things off to the Iraqi army, the Iraqi police and the Iraqi government, and all set to board those ships and planes for their eagerly awaited trip home.

When I think of the needless deaths and suffering our boys have had to endure as a direct result of the machinations of the democrats who want to surrender just as soon as they can, it is very, very difficult for me to contain the intense anger and outrage I feel. In fact, I’m all set to volunteer as an interrogator at Guantanamo – just so long as I’m permitted to take a couple of plane loads of democrats down there with me.

I think we should just trust our President and our upcoming new President war hero Senator John McCain in absolutely every decision they make and we should just support that.

“They see a force stretched dangerously thin and a country ill-prepared for the next fight.”

Thanks Billly Jeff.

Just wondering, what can we expect from Monica’s ex-boyfriend’s wife when it comes to bulking up the military?

The U.S. military is “severely strained” by two large-scale occupations in the Middle East, other troop deployments, and problems recruiting, according to a new survey of military officers published by Foreign Policy magazine and the centrist think-tank Center for a New American Security.

“They see a force stretched dangerously thin and a country ill-prepared for the next fight,” said the report, ‘The U.S. Military Index,’ which polled 3,400 current and former high-level military officers.

Sixty percent of the officers surveyed said that the military is weaker now than it was five years ago, often citing the number of troops deployed to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Asked what country had gained the “greatest strategic advantage” from the war in Iraq, 37 percent said Iran while 22 percent answered China. Just one in five of the officers answered that the U.S. had gained the most.