On the one hand, there are signs of progress. U.S. forces have completed a series of successful operations, among them Operation Spear in western Iraq, where at least 60 insurgents were killed and 100 captured, and Operation Lightning in Baghdad, with over 500 arrests. American forces now hold at least 14,000 suspected insurgents, and have captured about two dozen lieutenants of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi.
Oh my, Body Counts. How familiar.
It's just wrong to seek withdrawal now, when the outcome of the war is unknowable and when the consequences of defeat are so vast.
Some of you will respond that this is easy for me to say, since I'm not over there. All I'd say is that we live in a democracy, where decisions are made by all. Besides, the vast majority of those serving in Iraq, and their families, said they voted to re-elect President Bush. They seem to want to finish the job.
Others will say we shouldn't be there in the first place. You may be right. Time will tell. But right now, this isn't about your personal vindication. It's about victory for the forces of decency and defeating those, like Zarqawi, who would be attacking us in any case.
Really, and what evidence does Brooks have that Zarqawi "...would be attacking us in any case"? That's just more rehashing of the already discredited conflation of Saddam and Al-Qaeda. Nice try, Bobo but when you are demonstrably wrong, shutting the fuck up is always a good idea.
And once again, like all the other wingnut pundits big and small, Brooks manages to opine on the need for staying the course without ever making a call for his true-believer readers to head on down and sign up, thus ensuring that that man or woman who has now been to Iraq two or three times knows that they'll come home for the last time without having to face another tour in the sand, because help is on the way.
But since Bobo speaks for his "personal vindication" (and suburbia of course), we know where his loyalties lie and it's not with the Army's accession and retention issues...
posted by Jo Fish on 06.23.05 at 11:56 AM
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They used body counts during the election time, scale the soldiers back to the fire base, blow more things up with air strikes and artillery...
Sounds like another era revisited.
Fifteen Lt. of Al Zarqawei? Bullsheeeeeot.
Lt., when they have no rank? (remember the geneva interpretations by Gonzales)
Fifteen of them captured? Like the Lt. would surrender instead of doing suicide attacks?
Then his self-victimization of not being over there is justified by the support for Bush (which is not there from the people I know who went/are there).
Does he write these things with a crayola?
Zarqawei is a fucking straw man often enough.
Joe Wilson's testimony at the Conyers hearing notes that Zarqawei's camp in Iraq was in a 'no fly zone' of a province run by the current department head of Iraq's security cabinet membership. So our pilots gave him cover under orders of Bush and Iraq's bossman behind the scenes did as well.
He refused to attack Zarqawei, gave him operating room, now we're supposed to think he'll go after him?
Most likely they're all up over his bloodline and will wipe them off the planet if he doesn't play coy about things.Or they're probably in-laws or distantly related and we'll find that out later.
He's a sympathizer/abettor. Ambassador Wilson noted as much during the Conyers hearing. Why has Bush allowed a man who is lenient on Al Zarqawei to run Iraq's securty infrastructue?
Also Zarqawei has a leg blown off and somehow he makes it into CNN reports all over the country. Near Syria, near Iran, near Mosul,Tikrit,Fallujeh... wherever CNN's reporters who never leave the walled city of the green zone say he is...
Wilson exposed the IPA's fraudulent credibility in whole. He didn't really touch on the Al-Zarqawei straw man line. Just showing the obvious example of the conflicting loyalty in Iraq's leadership regarding him, it is a more important point at this time.
It would be like letting Ho Chi's regional commander run the South Viet Nam police.
Bush has proven things can get worse this time around.
posted by: Mr.Murder on 06.26.05 at 05:59 AM [permalink]
Thanks for taking on Bobo.
When people criticize a moonbat like David Horowitz or moonie like Bill Gertz, I wonder why they bother.
Bobo is "tops of the pops" to the war-mongers.
You ever read his "...Paradise" book? What that unobservant turd didn't realize that Wayne, Pennsylvania, target of his liberal-and-hippie-hating book, is actually home (formerly?) to some(at least one) members of the largest organized counter-culture crime family in the country, "the Dead Family."
LSD distributors, dontcha know.
Even Friendman, the favorite neo-con of NYC-media-central, is far more obviously stupid, ignorant and hateful.
