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America! F yeah!

First thing I think of (for a caption) would be:

(word balloon coming from the soldiers mouth)

“DAMN G!! When we went to bed, I swear she looked like Haley Berry!!! Knew I shouldn’t have taken that SCOTCH chaser!”

My thoughts then and now? The same. Nothing can stop an unleashed a United States military operation. Our soldiers would make Homer’s Hector, Achilles, Ghengis Khan and Napoleon run for cover!
May God continue to Bless the USA!

Zorro on December 13, 2008 at 11:13 AM
Frame that thought. When The Obama™ and his friends get finished with the US military we’ll be lucky to win a sack race at the county fair.

johnsteele on December 13, 2008 at 11:23 AM

You’re both right. Zorro is talking about an “unleashed” US military while you are talking about a hobbled one. I hope you’re wrong projecting what Obama will do but suspect you’re not.

I’ve been expecting Bush to make this last visit but not like this!

Air Force One, the president’s distinctive powder blue-and-white jetliner, landed at Baghdad International Airport in the afternoon local time, after a secretive Saturday night departure from Washington and an 11-hour flight. In a sign of modest security gains in this war zone, Bush was welcomed with a formal arrival ceremony — a flourish that was not part of his previous three trips to Iraq.

That’s why we’re STILL THERE and forced to sign agreements that make us look like Iraq’s little bi!ch. Bush Jr., on the other hand, thinks jeezus speaks to him directly and told him to go and free those people like he was frickin’ Moses. Wiser men know when to fold. Why don’t YOU wise up Greenie?

dk on December 13, 2008 at 5:29 PM

I’m mostly going to address the fact that we are still there, in Iraq. We recently signed a Status of Forces Agreement (aka, SOFA), which allows us to operate, teach, train, and live in Iraq in partnership with the Iraqi government. Yes, it was a long, hard road to reach that point. But now, though the agreement is different in content, it is identical in principle to the SOFA we have with Germany, Italy, S. Korea, Japan, England, and a host of other countries where the US military stations and operates throughout the free world. This means two things: One, that the primary governance of Iraq is no longer American military personnel (otherwise, why make an agreement that is, effectively, with ourselves, that constrains our ability to fight independent of the Iraqi military), and two, that we will probably be in Iraq in some capacity for a long, long time. In other words, thanks to this SOFA, for as long as the Iraqi people will have us.

Wiser men know when to fold. Why don’t YOU wise up Greenie?

dk on December 13, 2008 at 5:29 PM

It was your buddy Clinton who was folding for years that led to 911. It was your buddy Clinton who was allowing the sanctions on Iraq to fall apart, and your buddy Clinton was supposed to be on watch during the Oil-for-food mess.

Wise man? D@mn fool fits better.

I remember watching this in the breakroom at work. Paul Bremer said “We got him” and half of my co-workers watching cheered. The other half were silent. One of the libs in the room said “Oh great, now Bush is gonna get re-elected!” Typical democrat. Party before country.

Tony737 on December 13, 2008 at 12:47 PM

Yet so many liberals who think like this cannot understand why most Americans think they are such festering a$$holes!

Perhaps if Saddam had only try to sell a Senate seat, they could have mustered some concern for him.

Attila (Pillage Idiot) on December 13, 2008 at 7:25 PM

Tks Attila – clicking through on the old link took me to a page pimping Russian Brides!

I remember how dishevelled and pathetic Saddam looked after his capture. The US army doctors were checking his gums and putting things in his mouth as he sat passively.

aengus on December 13, 2008 at 7:55 PM

Yes – that was the one good thing about not dropping C-4 into Saddam’s hidey-hole, or putting a bullet through him on the scene. We got treated to some of the best video, evah.

The pajama-clad Saddam docilely complying with verbal instructions? Priceless. Another really, really good day. (What’s the anniversary? Dec. 14? 15?)

What are your thoughts on this fifth anniversary of Saddam’s capture?

I don’t have new thoughts but I remember how dishevelled and pathetic Saddam looked after his capture. The US army doctors were checking his gums and putting things in his mouth as he sat passively.

By the way, a Blago warning on some of the language.

one of the last days before the Democrats embarked on their calculated treason aginst the nation by inventing and then propagating the “Bush Lied, People Died” meme, including but not limited to the Joe Wilson / Valerie Plame farce, and other blood libels against the country and those defending it.

RD on December 13, 2008 at 6:56 PM

Thank you for staying strong for our Country and Freedom around the world.

This might help with the “Bush lied” liberal drivel:

‘Bush Lied’? If Only It Were That Simple.
By Fred Hiatt
Monday, June 9, 2008; A17
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/08/AR2008060801687_pf.html

But dive into Rockefeller’s report, in search of where exactly President Bush lied about what his intelligence agencies were telling him about the threat posed by Saddam Hussein, and you may be surprised by what you find.

On Iraq’s nuclear weapons program? The president’s statements “were generally substantiated by intelligence community estimates.”

On biological weapons, production capability and those infamous mobile laboratories? The president’s statements “were substantiated by intelligence information.”

On chemical weapons, then? “Substantiated by intelligence information.”

On weapons of mass destruction overall (a separate section of the intelligence committee report)? “Generally substantiated by intelligence information.” Delivery vehicles such as ballistic missiles? “Generally substantiated by available intelligence.” Unmanned aerial vehicles that could be used to deliver WMDs? “Generally substantiated by intelligence information.”

But statements regarding Iraq’s support for terrorist groups other than al-Qaeda “were substantiated by intelligence information.” Statements that Iraq provided safe haven for Abu Musab al-Zarqawi and other terrorists with ties to al-Qaeda “were substantiated by the intelligence assessments,” and statements regarding Iraq’s contacts with al-Qaeda “were substantiated by intelligence information.”

Bush never lied to us about Iraq
The administration simply got bad intelligence. Critics are wrong to assert deception.
By James Kirchick
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-oe-kirchick16-2008jun16,0,4808346.story
June 16, 2008

This may sound like ancient history, but it matters. After Sept. 11, President Bush did not want to risk allowing Hussein, who had twice invaded neighboring nations, murdered more than 1 million Iraqis and stood in violation of 16 U.N. Security Council resolutions, to remain in possession of what he believed were stocks of chemical and biological warheads and a nuclear weapons program. By glossing over this history, the Democrats’ lies-led-to-war narrative provides false comfort in a world of significant dangers.

Only a partisan idiot would listen to democrats for about a decade say the same things Bush said about Iraq,then watch them vote to go to war,and then say it’s all Bush’s fault.

Civil Society Is Beginning To Grow In Iraq
The surge is yielding major changes in Iraqi political life.

With security improving, local citizens have restarted the political process in neighborhoods, cities, and provinces. Grassroots movements have sprung up all around the country. These groups of citizens are determined to protect their communities, they are determined to fight extremism, and they increasingly participate in civic life.
Today, some 90,000 Iraqis belong to local citizens group bearing the name “Sons of Iraq.” The Iraqi Government has pledged to incorporate about 20 to 30 percent of these “Sons of Iraq” into the Iraqi army and police forces.
Leaders in Baghdad are responding and the legislative achievements in Baghdad over the past four months have been remarkable.
In December, the government enacted a pension law that will allow tens of thousands of Sunnis to collect the retirement benefits they were promised.
In January, leaders enacted a de-Ba’athification law that allows mid-level Baath party members to re-enter political and civic life.
In February, leaders enacted a budget that increases spending on security capital reconstruction projects and provincial governments.
The same day in February, leaders enacted an amnesty law to resolves the status of many Iraqis held in Iraqi custody.
Last week, leaders reached agreement on a provincial powers law that helps define Iraqi federalism, and sets the stage for provincial elections later this year. That is an important piece of legislation because it will give Iraqis who boycotted the last provincial elections – such as Sunnis in Anbar or Ninewa provinces – a chance to go to the polls and have a voice in their future.
The U.S. more than doubled the number of Provincial Reconstruction Teams. Karbala PRT helped local residents establish a women’s center to provide education and promote equality.
With support of PRTs, Ramadi now has a fully-staffed mayor’s office and neighborhood councils have formed. Judges are presiding over courts and restoring the rule of law.
Iraq Has Great Economic Potential
The improvements in security resulting from the surge are enabling Iraqis to make progress on their economy. Since the surge began:
Business registrations have increased by more than nine percent;
Total inflation has fallen by more than 60 percentage points;
Investment in energy and telecom industries has increased;
Oil production is up, particularly north of Baghdad;
The national government has announced a plan to reform the food rationing system; and
Economic growth is projected to be a robust seven percent this year.
Iraqis still have work to do in their economy. The reforms needed to transition from a command-and-control economy to a modern market-based system are complex and will take more time. Centralized electricity generation is now above pre-war levels, but it is not sufficient to meet the needs of Iraq’s growing demand. Other key infrastructure needs to be upgraded, especially energy pipelines and storage facilities. Unemployment is too high, and corruption remains a challenge.
Iraq’s Government Has Stepped Forward To Meet More Of Its Own Expenses
Early in the war, the U.S. funded most of the large-scale reconstruction projects in Iraq. Now the U.S. is focusing on encouraging entrepreneurship. The Iraqi government is stepping up on reconstruction projects. They have outspent the U.S. in recent budget 11 to one, and soon we expect the Iraqis will cover 100 percent of these expenses.
Initially, the U.S. paid for most of the costs of training and equipping the Iraqi Security Forces. Now Iraq’s budget covers three-quarters of the cost of its security forces, which is a total of more than $9 billion in 2008. Soon, we expect Iraq to shoulder the full burden of their security forces.
The national government has now committed $196 million to fund jobs programs so that brave Iraqis who stand up to the extremists and the murders and the criminals can learn the skills they need to help build a free and prosperous nation.
Iraq Is Strengthening Its Relationship With Other Nations
Iraq wants to solidify its relationship with the United States. Last year, Iraqi leaders requested to form a long-term strategic partnership with the U.S. This partnership would help assure Iraqis that political and economic and security cooperation between the nations will endure. This partnership would also ensure protections for American troops when the U.N. mandate for Multi-National Forces in Iraq expires this December. This partnership would not bind future President’s to specific troop levels. This partnership would not establish permanent bases in Iraq.
The surge is helping give Iraq’s leaders the confidence to expand their international engagement.
Iraqi leaders are working hard to meet the criterion required to join the World Trade Organization, which would help its entrepreneurs benefit from the opportunities of a global economy.
Iraq has taken steps to attract foreign investment, including hosting its first “Business to Business” expo since the Gulf War.
The government is meeting its pledge to reform its economy in exchange for development assistance and debt relief through the International Compact for Iraq.
Much of the world is increasing its commitment to Iraq. The United Kingdom, Italy, and South Korea are leading PRTs in Iraq. The United Nations is playing an expanded role in Iraq, and will help prepare for this year’s provincial elections.
Next month, the third Expanded Neighbors Conference will meet in Kuwait City to discuss ways the region and the world can further support Iraq’s political, economic, and security progress. This is a key diplomatic initiative. It will include all of Iraq’s neighbors, as well as the permanent members of the United Nations Security Council, the G-8, the Arab League, and the Organization of the Islamic Conference.
The Progress In Iraq Is Real, It’s Substantive, But It’s Reversible
Helping Iraqis defeat their enemies and build a free society would be a strategic victory that would resound far beyond Iraq’s borders. If al Qaeda is defeated in Iraq after all the resources it has poured into the battle there, it will be a powerful blow against the global terrorist movement. If Iran is turned back in its attempt to gain undue influence over Iraq, it will be a setback to its ambitions to dominate the region. If people across the Middle East see freedom prevail in multi-ethnic, multi-sectarian Iraq, it will mark a decisive break from the long reign of tyranny in that region. And if the Middle East grows in freedom and prosperity, the appeal of extremism will decline, the prospects of peace will advance, and the American people will be safer here at home.
Retreating from Iraq would carry enormous strategic costs for the United States. It would increase the likelihood that al Qaeda would gain safe havens that they could use to attack us here at home. It would be a propaganda victory of colossal proportions for the global terrorist movement, which would gain new funds, and find new recruits, and conclude that the way to defeat America is to bleed us into submission. It would signal to Iran that we were not serious about confronting its efforts to impose its will on the region. It would signal to people across the Middle East that the United States cannot be trusted to keep its word. A defeat in Iraq would have consequences far beyond that country – and they would be felt by Americans here at home

And they have also achieved almost all of the benchmarks that were laid out for them,that is why we don’t hear democrats complaining about them anymore.

Remember Those Iraqi Benchmarks? Well, Guess What…
June 17, 2008 – by Abe Greenwald
URL to article: http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/remember-those-iraqi-benchmarks-well-guess-what/

Way back in the dark days of 2007, when the only popular question about the Iraq war concerned the degree of tragedy, Congress’s Iraq “benchmarks” were all the rage among Democrats. Every argument against a continued U.S. presence in Iraq was constructed around the Maliki administration’s apparent inability to meet the political and security-based milestones as outlined by America’s Democratic-majority Congress.

Then something happened. The gains of the troop surge allowed the Iraqi government and citizenry to implement the security measures and legislative acts called for by the U.S. The benchmark line of argument quietly died. Here, then, is the brief life and glorious death of the great benchmark trope.

Thanks Baxter especially for posting research on the run-up to the Democrats’ treason in late ‘03 / ‘04; I was hoping to run across it myself, if only to complete my initial post above, which remembers the day 5 years ago as a great day – one of the last days of relative unity in the country, one of the last days before the Democrats embarked on their calculated treason aginst the nation by inventing and then propagating the “Bush Lied, People Died” meme, including but not limited to the Joe Wilson / Valerie Plame farce, and other blood libels against the country and those defending it.

A roundup of the past two weeks’ good news from Iraq.
by ARTHUR CHRENKOFF
Monday, December 6, 2004 12:01 A.M. EST
http://www.opinionjournal.com/extra/?id=110005986

It takes a lot to get a man of God annoyed, and Louis Sako, the Chaldean Archbishop of Kirkuk, is a very frustrated man these days. “It is not all death and destruction,” says the archbishop. “Much is positive in Iraq today. . . . Universities are operating, schools are open, people go out onto the streets normally. . . . Where there’s a kidnapping or a homicide the news gets out immediately, and this causes fear among the people. . . . Those who commit such violence are resisting against Iraqis who want to build their country.”
It’s not just the terrorists who, according to His Eminence, are creating problems for Iraq: Elections in January “will be a starting point for a new Iraq,” he says. Yet “Western newspapers and broadcasters are simply peddling propaganda and misinformation. . . . Iraqis are happy to be having elections and are looking forward to them because they will be useful for national unity. . . . Perhaps not everything will go exactly to plan, but, with time, things will improve. Finally Iraqis will be given the chance to choose. Why is there so much noise and debate coming out from the West when before, under Saddam, there were no free elections, but no one said a thing?”
The archbishop has this wish for the international bystanders: “Europe is absent, it’s not out there; the United States is on its own. . . . [Europe] must help the Iraqi government to control its borders to prevent the entry of foreign terrorists, [but] also provide economic help to encourage a new form of culture which is open to coexistence, the acceptance of others, respect for the human person and for other cultures. . . . Europe must understand that there is no time to waste on marginal or selfish interests: The entire world needs peace.”
Archbishop Sako’s frustration is increasingly shared by other Iraqis, who can hardly recognize their country from the foreign media coverage. Westerners, too, both military and civilians, upon their return are often finding to their surprise and concern they had lived and worked in a different country to that their loved ones, friends and neighbors back home saw every night on the news. “Our” Iraq is a place of violence, uncertainty, and frustration; “their” Iraq all that, but also so much more: work and renewal, hope and enthusiasm, new opportunities and new possibilities. Here are the last two weeks’ worth of stories you might have missed while watching “our” Iraq on the news:

• Economy. Alan P. Larson, the undersecretary of state for economic, business and agricultural affairs, provides an useful overview of the economic situation in Iraq before and after the liberation:
In 1979 Iraq had a per capita living standard on a par with Italy. By the fall of Saddam Hussein’s government, Iraq had the GDP of an impoverished developing country and had become the most heavily indebted nation in the world. This grim legacy, compounded by a serious security situation, poses big hurdles to economic development.
Despite these problems, the Iraqis are persevering and succeeding. Iraqi policies made it possible for economic output in the first ten months of 2004 to be 51.7% higher than in 2003. Per capita income in 2004 is projected to be $780, up from approximately $500 in 2003.
The Iraqi government has set forth a solid medium-term economic plan. The newly independent Central Bank is keeping inflation in check, with the consumer price index rising only 5.7 percent in the first eight months of 2004 compared with 46 percent in 2003. The new dinar has appreciated 27 percent against the dollar in the past year.
Says Larson: “The economic progress Iraqis have achieved so far, under very difficult circumstances, testifies to their competence and courage. This holds especially true for the men and women who make up the new Iraqi government, who, at great personal risk, are busy building their vision of a democratic and free Iraq.”

Count on it.

RD on December 13, 2008 at 6:19 PM

I do.

They’ve nothing in common with Wilson, FDR, Truman, and Kennedy with regards to understanding the importance of American sovereignty. The Left laughs at this notion.