March 31, 2004


A Miserable Failure, for real

No joking about this. Nine more Americans coming home in "transfer tubes". Four of them civilian contractors, five of them American Soldiers. Sent to die by Chickenhawk NeoCons.

Four American civilian contractors were killed in the Iraqi city of Fallujah Wednesday in an attack that left their vehicles in flames, and afterward at least three of the burned bodies were mutilated, dragged through the streets and suspended from a bridge while a group of Iraqis danced in the streets. Separately, in nearby Ramadi, five U.S. soldiers died after their armored vehicle hit a roadside bomb.
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The White House on Wednesday blamed terrorists and remnants of Saddam Hussein's former regime for the attack. White House spokesman Scott McClellan told reporters, "There are some that are doing everything they can to try to prevent" a June 30 transfer of sovereignty to an Iraqi government.
Blame anyone you want McClellan you bottom-feeder, they are dead because of the choices your boss made and lies he told to get them there for whatever twisted reasons he had.
A police official in Fallujah, Major Abdelaziz Faisal Hamid Mehamdy, said he did not see any survivors and that it took police about 30 minutes to arrive at the scene. He said no arrests were made and that the gunmen escaped.

Mehamdy said: "I was surprised. . . . The violence is increasing against the Americans. . . . They took over the country and they didn't give us anything. They came for democracy and to help the people, but we haven't seen any of this, just killing and violence."
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The attack began when insurgents fired assault rifles at two SUVs in a busy commercial area. Then, hundreds of people, young and old, gathered around the burning vehicles and shouted anti-American slogans.

Video footage showed the charred bodies on the streets, having been dragged from the vehicles and beaten with shovels. At least three bodies were seen hanging from a bridge in Fallujah afterwards.

Blackhawk Down Day in Iraq? The 1600 Crew seem to revel in this, it's military service by proxy for their lazy, cowardly asses. If Iraq is not the next Vietnam it's only going to be because Kerry wins and starts the closure and healing process with our friends and allies, and pursues the real terrorists of Al-Qaeda and not the people of Iraq.

Question is, when will we have gone so far that there is no recovery? I fervently hope we have not done that already.
posted by Jo Fish on 03.31.04 at 11:09 PM





Comments:

I think if we dump Dubya there may be a chance, but I'm not holding my breath. The Kurdish problem is too shaky and theat will involve Syria and Turkey.

The Shi'ia want the control due the majority. That is the danger of introducing democracy all at once: the majority wants all the power.

The Sunni realize that being stuck between the Kurds and the Shi'ia is not a good place.

Even the small Turkoman minority is starting to push and they will get support from Turkey.

 posted by: Bryan on 04.01.04 at 12:27 AM [permalink]

Just wait a minute, they opened a fucking school, too! Stop being so one sided. Goddamn, these motherfuckers make me want to puke. A general actually said that today. Like the Iraqis had NEVER had a school before. Or hospitals, electricity, etc.

 posted by: merl on 04.01.04 at 12:53 AM [permalink]

This that pissed you off, go read this kool-aid drinking Bush apologist at Blogcritics:

"Most opponents of the war in Iraq dismiss the "reform the Middle East" argument for it as after-the-fact dissembling. Personally, I don't care what "The Real Reason" was, I care about the results, which are unambiguously good, especially when one takes the entire region into account."

http://blogcritics.org/archives/2004/03/30/140226.php
Most liberals I read, are for the sake of the world hoping like hell that democracy succeeds in Iraq and we can bring the troops home ASAP. His whole argumnet seems like a big straw dog.

 posted by: bad back on 04.01.04 at 01:37 AM [permalink]

Commander Codpiece and his crew have already taken us too far. We had no business invading Iraq in the first place. Gun barrel diplomacy has never worked. The Iraqis are not stupid. More have been killed by us in the last year than by Saddam in the last ten. The 1600 crew wants to democratize Iraq even if they have to kill every damn one of them. Like democracy really means anything to the 1600 crew. They have shredded the constitution and trampled over our rights in the name of security. Now they want to spread their idea of democracy to Iraq.

posted by: Lowell on 04.01.04 at 09:03 AM [permalink]

This is the next Vietnam.

War based on propaganda and lies from idiots who have their mind set still in the cold war.

It will really feel like Vietnam when Selective Service ramps up the draft next June!

I hope my nephews don't come home in "transfer tubes".

 posted by: Yankee in Exile on 04.01.04 at 12:33 PM [permalink]

The female was probably the 'translator' the others were amer-euro types on work with dog tags (former military?).

 posted by: Mr.Murder on 04.01.04 at 03:55 PM [permalink]

William Pitt, Earl of Chatham, aka "Pitt The Elder" to the House of Lords, November 18, 1777:

"You may swell every expense and every effort, still more extravagantly; pile and accumulate every assistance you can buy or borrow; traffic and barter with every little pitiful German prince that sells and sends his subjects to the shambles of a foreign prince; your efforts are forever vain and impotent - doubly so from this mercenary aid on which you rely; for it irritates to an incurable resentment the minds of your enemies - to overrun them with the mercenary sons of rapine and plunder; devoting them and their possessions to the rapacity of hireling cruelty! If I were an American, as I am an Englishman, while a foreign troop was landed in my country, I never would lay down my arms - never - never - never!"

 posted by: TC on 04.03.04 at 08:30 PM [permalink]


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