with things in Iraq going so great you should announce that if you become President you will have all American combat troops out within 9 months of your taking office.

OK, we’ve seen this one enough times to get it…

dmann on May 13, 2008 at 10:29 PM

That would explain a lot.

Sorry I wasn’t on when you arrived, had to get going on the yard stuff. I hope you don’t mind the liberty I took including your name as part of an All American Classic, I still smile when my minds eye sees the speaker blarring out the stooges names!

It seems like he’s just really stupid.

I think he’s just really stupid.

Has Baghdad Bob changed his name to Kukis and gotten a job with Time Magazine?

Calling Dr. Howard, Dr. Fine, MB4…….

dmann on May 13, 2008 at 12:17 PM

With all this apparent good news I am going to suspend disbelief and send an email to John McCain with my advice on how he can win this election.

Dear John, my friend. I can call you my firend I hope.

Obama has announced that if he becomes President he will have all American combat troops out of Iraq in 16 months, with things in Iraq going so great you should announce that if you become President you will have all American combat troops out within 9 months of your taking office.

Obama’s head will explode and your election will be in the bag.

The Atlanta Hawks, the lowest seed in the NBA playoffs, took on the top-seeded (and proud owners of the best record in the entire NBA) Boston Celtics in the first round. The Hawks forced seven games, where the Celtics prevailed four games to three.

According to Time’s logic, the Hawks really won, since they weren’t crushed like every one thought they would be. Got it. Thanks for the clarification, Time, but I’d like to hear an explanation as to why I still see the Celtics in the playoffs instead of the Hawks.

Our favorite weirdbeard in Iraq, Mookie al-Sadr, caved to the new Iraqi government.  in the eyes of Time magazine, that act is a rousing victory for Mookie.  Heck, even the headline of the Time piece is…I swear, I’m not making this up……

Does the fact that Sadr is holed up in Iran mean he has won?

Does the fact that the Mahdi army is taking an incredible beating and causalities mean that Sadr has won?

Does the fact that the Iraqi army has control of the neighborhoods and streets of Basra and is gaining the same control of Sadr city mean that Sadr has won?

Does the fact that Sadr continues to try and work out peace agreement after peace agreement(I mean surrender agreement)mean that Sadr has won?

Does the fact that the local citizens are embracing the Iraqi government and rejecting Sadr’s militia mean that
Sadr has won?

Does the fact that the Sunni,Kurdish,and Shia leadership
has joined with Maliki in the fight against Sadr mean that
Sadr has won?

Does the fact that Sistani and other clerics have given
their support for the Iraqi government mean that Sadr has won?

If this is Time’s idea of winning,than I guess the Germans,Italians,and the Japanese kicked our a$$ in WWII instead of the other way around.

That is a lot of history to rewrite.

Watching the MSM spin this progress into defeat is about as hilarious as watching liberals justify using military force in Burma but it was a “huge mistake” to take out a genocidal terrorist madman like Saddam that was responsible for two wars,hundreds of thousands killed with WMD’s,support of terrorism,genocide of almost 1 million of his own people,trying to assassinate an American President,firing on our aircraft,and making a mockery of UN sanctions.

No wonder liberals are so depressed and bitter all the time,it has got to be exhausting keeping up with all these lies and hypocrisy that they call “enlightenment”.

What a crock this article is! I can report more current and accurately than that sitting here in Texas!

But one thing is clear: the latest pause in the running fight between al-Sadr and the U.S.-backed legitimately elected Iraqi government offers no resulted in visible solutions to the problems at the root of the conflict. Al-Maliki wants to disband the Mahdi Army militia, or at least de-fang it, before provincial elections in the fall. The bloody nose the Mahdi Army Iraqi Army gave al-Maliki the Sadrists militia in the latest crisis shows how unlikely that is effective the IA has become. Above all, al-Sadr Iran’s proxy in the undermining of the Iraqi government still wants the Americans to go. But And the inability growing capabilities of Iraqi forces to operate independently during the recent fighting shows how unlikely increasing likely that a transition from security to support that is on the horizon – unless a new Obama White House decides to reduce military support for an Iraqi government still unable to face down its toughest foe continued interference from Iran.

BTW .. maybe the Time Mag. needs to pay attention to The Long War Journal.

In Pictures: Patrolling the Shorja Market with the Sons of Iraq By Bill Ardolino

Japanese win historic victory in sinking 33% of the American carriers and a large percentage of combat aircratf. Midway defenders decimated, entire Air Force destroyed, and US Naval forces in disarray.

while unleashing a daily hail of rockets and mortars on the Green Zone

?????? True????? I heard of a couple of attacks but nothing recently. Have I missed something about this ‘daily hail’ of death?

Morning Edition, May 13, 2008 · In Baghdad, a shaky cease-fire between the Iraqi government and militia loyal to Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr has failed. But on the ground in their stronghold of Sadr City, Mahdi Army members say they’re still at war. Though the Sadrists say they’ll fight to the death, some residents in the city say they’d be happy to see the government wipe out the militia.

A. Why Did It Take So Long?
B. OBL Death Will Spur More Terrorism
C. Is Bin Laden Really Dead?
D. Dem Urging Pays Off Big in Afghanistan
E. Muslim World Morns Death of Hero
F. Zahawiri Still On The Loose

I know, they’re so predictable it’s almost unfair to speculate.

But the inability of Iraqi forces to operate independently during the recent fighting shows how unlikely that is – unless a new White House decides to reduce military support for an Iraqi government still unable to face down its toughest foe.

Dude. I’d say his toughest foe is the American media. While I am no lover of Maliki, he’s managed to completely uproot Sadr in Basra, and forced Sadr to lose face with his Iranian puppeteers by giving up Sadr City. That is a one damn fine accomplishment. The Iranians have been largely responsible for insurgent progress in combat, with their provision of IED’s, money and weapons. Sadr was their last hope for a strong proxy presence in Iraq, and Maliki is pursuing victory to the end of the earth. Perhaps if Time was less concerned with co-opting real American heroic imagery for their ridiculous “green” crusade, they might pull their heads out of their @$$ and see another American victory in Iraq.

It’s a quagmire! The MSM narrative, that is.