Troop surge is working

[ScottSA]

Torture, is the tool of cowards.

Language ought to be taken out of the hands of illiterate comma misplacers.

[Canadian Blue]

I'm not feeding the troll this time.

What are you talking about?

But don't get me wrong, its nice to see that you seem to stoop lower and lower.

[ScottSA]

Baghdad ‘Surge’ Produces Early Successes, Official Says

By Gerry J. Gilmore

American Forces Press Service

WASHINGTON, April 4, 2007 – Murders and kidnappings, the hallmarks of sectarian violence, have decreased in Baghdad since reinforcements of U.S. and Iraqi security forces began to flow into the city in mid-February as part of Operation Fahrd al-Qanoon, a senior U.S. military official said in Baghdad today.

“A clear reduction in the number of kidnappings and execution-style murders” has taken place across Baghdad since Fahrd al-Qanoon, or “Enforce the Law,” was launched to secure and tamp down violence in Baghdad and western Iraq, Navy Rear Adm. Mark I. Fox, spokesman for Multinational Force Iraq, said to representatives of U.S.-based veterans groups during a telephone conference call.

http://www.centcom.mil/sites/uscentcom2/Fr...ial%20Says.aspx

[ScottSA]

Iraqi citizens aid security forces

Tuesday, 03 April 2007

By Spc. Carl N. Hudson

Combined Press Information Center

BAGHDAD — An Iraqi Army general and a spokesman for Multi-National Force-Iraq held a press conference concerning the progress of Fardh Al-Qanoon at the Combined Press Information Center Sunday.

Iraqi Army Brig. Gen. Qassim Moussawi and U.S. Navy Rear Adm. Mark Fox, an MNF-I spokesman, provided an update on recent achievements by Iraqi and Coalition forces and encouraged the Iraqi population to keep providing more information leading to the capture of terrorists.

“We’ve seen some initial progress, but our work will not be accomplished in days or weeks, but will require a sustained effort over the course of many months,” said Fox.

Along with the contribution of over 5,000 tips from Iraqi citizens, Iraqi and Coalition forces seized over 300 weapons caches, detained over 1,400 suspects and cleared over 300 improvised explosive devices in March including the rescue of a kidnapped family in Doura, Iraq, last week

http://www.centcom.mil/sites/uscentcom2/Fr...y%20forces.aspx

[Guthrie]

Torture, is the tool of cowards.

Language ought to be taken out of the hands of illiterate comma misplacers.

says the only auto-typing, 'anti-dictionary'

[ScottSA]

Torture, is the tool of cowards.

Language ought to be taken out of the hands of illiterate comma misplacers.

says the only auto-typing, 'anti-dictionary'

Oh, you made it back from playing in traffic, eh Woody?

[stignasty]

War bleeds Baghdad of its best

In 2003, a Baghdad woman named Hamdiyah al-Dulaimi had three sons -- the lights of her life. Now, she is living alone as a refugee in Syria. Baghdad is a city that is hemorrhaging its best and brightest -- doctors, professors and teachers called "the brain of Baghdad" -- while many of those left behind are brutalized and traumatized. Al-Dulaimi left behind the mayhem and madness after her sons were all dragged from her home and killed.

http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/04/06/...y.ap/index.html

[Guthrie]

War bleeds Baghdad of its best

In 2003, a Baghdad woman named Hamdiyah al-Dulaimi had three sons -- the lights of her life. Now, she is living alone as a refugee in Syria. Baghdad is a city that is hemorrhaging its best and brightest -- doctors, professors and teachers called "the brain of Baghdad" -- while many of those left behind are brutalized and traumatized. Al-Dulaimi left behind the mayhem and madness after her sons were all dragged from her home and killed.

http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/04/06/...y.ap/index.html

and they have the vulgarity to claim, 'it's getting better'

[Canadian Blue]

http://edition.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/04...main/index.html

Ten coalition troops were killed in Iraq over the last two days, four of them in the deadliest attack on British troops since November, the U.S. and British militaries said Thursday.

The four British troops and a civilian translator were ambushed early Thursday as they returned from a mission west of the southern city of Basra, British military spokesman Lt. Col. Kevin Stratford-Wright said.

Insurgents wielding small arms and rocket-propelled grenades attacked the troops' armored Humvee about 340 miles (547 kilometers) southeast of Baghdad, said Stratford-Wright. A roadside bomb also was employed in the attack, he said.

The soldiers fired back and "one or more of the attackers were killed," the spokesman said.

A British soldier was hospitalized after being seriously wounded in the fray.

The troops were attacked earlier in the night as well, but they escaped the first attack without casualties, Stratford-Wright said.

The second ambush was the deadliest assault on British troops since insurgents killed four servicemen in an attack on their patrol boat in a Basra waterway.

Basra is the command headquarters for British forces in Iraq.

The number of British troop deaths in the war stands at 140.

The U.S. military also announced Thursday that six of its troops had been killed in the past two days in a string of attacks around Baghdad. (Watch Sen. John McCain as he says Americans aren't getting the full story on Baghdad )

One soldier was killed and two were wounded by a roadside bomb Thursday in the Diyala province, northeast of Baghdad.

Two soldiers were killed when a roadside bomb detonated north of the capital Wednesday, the military said. One soldier was wounded in the attack.

Two more soldiers were killed Wednesday and three were wounded when a roadside bomb exploded south of the capital, and another soldier was killed in eastern Baghdad during a firefight with insurgents wielding small arms, the military said.

The number of U.S. military deaths in the Iraq war is 3,260. Seven civilian contractors also have been killed.

Another article

http://edition.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/europe/0...iday/index.html

BAGHDAD (CNN) -- A well-known Iraqi journalist was found shot dead in Baghdad on Thursday, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty and the Committee to Protect Journalists said.

She was Khamail Muhsin Khalaf, a reporter for Radio Free Iraq, who worked for the Arabic-language service of RFE/RL in Iraq.

Radio Free Iraq Bureau Chief Nabil al-Haidari said Friday in an interview posted on RFE/RL's Web site that she was kidnapped Tuesday afternoon while he was headed to the bureau from home. She was found shot dead near her home.

Also Thursday, a suicide truck bomb in the capital at the Sunni-dominated Iraqi Islamic Party's Baghdad TV killed the station's deputy director, Thaer Ahmad Jaber, and injured 12 employees. (Posted 2:05 p.m.)

[ScottSA]

Why did I know the left would be johnny on the spot to assure us that the situation is dire indeed? Tune in next week for the Attack of the Global Warmingula!

[Canadian Blue]

Why did I know the left would be johnny on the spot to assure us that the situation is dire indeed? Tune in next week for the Attack of the Global Warmingula!

Well, I guess because during the Vietnam War the "experts" in Washington often talked about how much better things were getting in Vietnam.

I think it would be better if we had some kind of propaganda machine instead of independant media. That would show those politically correct pot smoking hippie journalists a thing or two. Reporting what a war is, the nerve of some people.

Tune in next week for the Attack of the Global Warmingula!

Yeah, goddamn scientists. I say we should burn them at the stake.

[stignasty]

Why did I know the left would be johnny on the spot to assure us that the situation is dire indeed? Tune in next week for the Attack of the Global Warmingula!

So, if some refer to me as "the left" and others call me a "freeper," does that make me a centrist?

[weaponeer]

There have been more Canadian and American Nazi's than there were German Nazi's ---

have you all forgotten William Beattie?

even in the 30's and 40's there were German, Brazilian, Chilean, Spanish, Polish, Serbian, Turk, Italian ... even French Nazi's -- read your history

Guthrie,

What are you smoking and can I have some????

The nazi's were German pal, the arian super race. There were several people that joined the SS, and fought with them yes. The last defenders of Berlin in 1945 were French nazis.

People from Brazil are not strpping bombs to themselves and blowing up markets, Danish people are not driving car loads of explosives onto military convoys. Buddist monks are not flyng airplanes into buildings. Your arrguments here make about as much sense as someone in 1940 saying we should not attack or resist Germany because they are not nazis, they are not gassing people.

Another point, you would take your family to Yeman, Syria, and Iran on vacation, good when do you leave:) Of course you would because if anything happened to you, we would all see you on TV crying and whining about how the Canadian gov't should come and save you.....

Like I said, read your history. Wise up a little. Maybe quit such ugly, bigotted and misinformed beliefs.

I have a degree in histroy, so I am well versed, thanks. I have been to these countries, sounds like you have not. It's not bigotry, it's the truth, which at times is ugly. Sorry you don't have the balls to stand up against radical islam.

Anyhow, this will be my last day here, I am off for 6 months in Afghanistan tonight, with a short stop over at Vimy Ridge Monday. Where the real men are......... But you would not know about that would you....

[Guthrie]

There have been more Canadian and American Nazi's than there were German Nazi's ---

have you all forgotten William Beattie?

even in the 30's and 40's there were German, Brazilian, Chilean, Spanish, Polish, Serbian, Turk, Italian ... even French Nazi's -- read your history

Guthrie,

What are you smoking and can I have some????

The nazi's were German pal, the arian super race. There were several people that joined the SS, and fought with them yes. The last defenders of Berlin in 1945 were French nazis.

People from Brazil are not strpping bombs to themselves and blowing up markets, Danish people are not driving car loads of explosives onto military convoys. Buddist monks are not flyng airplanes into buildings. Your arrguments here make about as much sense as someone in 1940 saying we should not attack or resist Germany because they are not nazis, they are not gassing people.

Another point, you would take your family to Yeman, Syria, and Iran on vacation, good when do you leave:) Of course you would because if anything happened to you, we would all see you on TV crying and whining about how the Canadian gov't should come and save you.....

Like I said, read your history. Wise up a little. Maybe quit such ugly, bigotted and misinformed beliefs.

I have a degree in histroy, so I am well versed, thanks. I have been to these countries, sounds like you have not. It's not bigotry, it's the truth, which at times is ugly. Sorry you don't have the balls to stand up against radical islam.

Anyhow, this will be my last day here, I am off for 6 months in Afghanistan tonight, with a short stop over at Vimy Ridge Monday. Where the real men are......... But you would not know about that would you....

it is my experience, when someone needs to claim some advanced knowledge of a subject, as saying, "I have a degree in..." They are doing so because they cannot answer a simple argument with facts. And when someone offers such a terribly misleading claim, such as, "The nazi's were German pal, the arian super race. " -- I am confident, there is no real degree in history. No real historian would ever attempt to limit Nazism by saying it was followed only by Germans

maybe you're not so, 'well versed' as you say

[sharkman]

I have a degree in histroy, so I am well versed, thanks. I have been to these countries, sounds like you have not. It's not bigotry, it's the truth, which at times is ugly. Sorry you don't have the balls to stand up against radical islam.

Anyhow, this will be my last day here, I am off for 6 months in Afghanistan tonight, with a short stop over at Vimy Ridge Monday. Where the real men are......... But you would not know about that would you....

I hope you have a rewarding trip, and that you stay safe.

Guthrie, the Nazis WERE from Germany originally, and weaponeer's comment on them was concerning 1945.

Edit: corrected my grammar, sorry for any confusion.

[weaponeer]

There have been more Canadian and American Nazi's than there were German Nazi's ---

have you all forgotten William Beattie?

even in the 30's and 40's there were German, Brazilian, Chilean, Spanish, Polish, Serbian, Turk, Italian ... even French Nazi's -- read your history

Guthrie,

What are you smoking and can I have some????

The nazi's were German pal, the arian super race. There were several people that joined the SS, and fought with them yes. The last defenders of Berlin in 1945 were French nazis.

People from Brazil are not strpping bombs to themselves and blowing up markets, Danish people are not driving car loads of explosives onto military convoys. Buddist monks are not flyng airplanes into buildings. Your arrguments here make about as much sense as someone in 1940 saying we should not attack or resist Germany because they are not nazis, they are not gassing people.

Another point, you would take your family to Yeman, Syria, and Iran on vacation, good when do you leave:) Of course you would because if anything happened to you, we would all see you on TV crying and whining about how the Canadian gov't should come and save you.....

Like I said, read your history. Wise up a little. Maybe quit such ugly, bigotted and misinformed beliefs.

I have a degree in histroy, so I am well versed, thanks. I have been to these countries, sounds like you have not. It's not bigotry, it's the truth, which at times is ugly. Sorry you don't have the balls to stand up against radical islam.

Anyhow, this will be my last day here, I am off for 6 months in Afghanistan tonight, with a short stop over at Vimy Ridge Monday. Where the real men are......... But you would not know about that would you....

it is my experience, when someone needs to claim some advanced knowledge of a subject, as saying, "I have a degree in..." They are doing so because they cannot answer a simple argument with facts. And when someone offers such a terribly misleading claim, such as, "The nazi's were German pal, the arian super race. " -- I am confident, there is no real degree in history. No real historian would ever attempt to limit Nazism by saying it was followed only by Germans

maybe you're not so, 'well versed' as you say

People like you don't get it, and never will. I like a good debate amoung those that are informed on their subject. You don't qualify. There were more Canadian and American nazis than Germans, sure....... Anyhow, I am done wasting my time with you.

I am leaving tonight for Belgium, then Vimy on Monday. Off to Aghanistan a few days later. I will drop in an say hello now and then if I can.... Cheers everyone..

[Guthrie]

There have been more Canadian and American Nazi's than there were German Nazi's ---

have you all forgotten William Beattie?

even in the 30's and 40's there were German, Brazilian, Chilean, Spanish, Polish, Serbian, Turk, Italian ... even French Nazi's -- read your history

Guthrie,

What are you smoking and can I have some????

The nazi's were German pal, the arian super race. There were several people that joined the SS, and fought with them yes. The last defenders of Berlin in 1945 were French nazis.

People from Brazil are not strpping bombs to themselves and blowing up markets, Danish people are not driving car loads of explosives onto military convoys. Buddist monks are not flyng airplanes into buildings. Your arrguments here make about as much sense as someone in 1940 saying we should not attack or resist Germany because they are not nazis, they are not gassing people.

Another point, you would take your family to Yeman, Syria, and Iran on vacation, good when do you leave:) Of course you would because if anything happened to you, we would all see you on TV crying and whining about how the Canadian gov't should come and save you.....

Like I said, read your history. Wise up a little. Maybe quit such ugly, bigotted and misinformed beliefs.

I have a degree in histroy, so I am well versed, thanks. I have been to these countries, sounds like you have not. It's not bigotry, it's the truth, which at times is ugly. Sorry you don't have the balls to stand up against radical islam.

Anyhow, this will be my last day here, I am off for 6 months in Afghanistan tonight, with a short stop over at Vimy Ridge Monday. Where the real men are......... But you would not know about that would you....

it is my experience, when someone needs to claim some advanced knowledge of a subject, as saying, "I have a degree in..." They are doing so because they cannot answer a simple argument with facts. And when someone offers such a terribly misleading claim, such as, "The nazi's were German pal, the arian super race. " -- I am confident, there is no real degree in history. No real historian would ever attempt to limit Nazism by saying it was followed only by Germans

maybe you're not so, 'well versed' as you say

People like you don't get it, and never will. I like a good debate amoung those that are informed on their subject. You don't qualify. There were more Canadian and American nazis than Germans, sure....... Anyhow, I am done wasting my time with you.

I am leaving tonight for Belgium, then Vimy on Monday. Off to Aghanistan a few days later. I will drop in an say hello now and then if I can.... Cheers everyone..

and when one misquotes an opponent, especially in a way that changes the entire argument, as you have just done, that shows a willingness to engage in dishonest debate

[Higgly]

Of course it's working. We will assert our will. And they will submit.

How clueless can you be?

This is like telling a woman who she should have babies with.

The problem started with the colonial Brits. When you are ready to go back to that start point, give us all a call.

[ScottSA]

And when someone offers such a terribly misleading claim, such as, "The nazi's were German pal, the arian super race. " -- I am confident, there is no real degree in history. No real historian would ever attempt to limit Nazism by saying it was followed only by Germans

maybe you're not so, 'well versed' as you say

Let me mislead you further then, by explaining something you may not know:

Nazi stands for "Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei" or, in English, the "National Socialist Party". It was a political party in Germany. It was limited to Germany. One of its fundamental platforms was the superiority of the Aryan master race, which the philosphy defined as the Germanic tribes. According to Hitler, the true master race existed as Germans, and was indeed the justification for both Liebenstrau and the "homeland" demands Hitler made of the Sudetenland and the Rhineland. (You probably don't know what I'm refering to here, so it's a good chance to go google up some embryonic knowledge to shove into the eggplant that perches atop your neck). According to Hitler, AFTER the Germans came other "races", including the British and the Scandinavians, and most of the Americans.

The fact that there were offshoot parties in Britain and America doesn't change the fact that Nazism is inherently a German philosophy and a German party. It's entire ethos is Germancentric. You are mistaking fascism for nazism, and fascista for Nazis.

Of course, the claim that there were more British and American Nazis than German Nazis is...well...interesting to say the least.

[Jerry Galinda]

"There have been more Canadian and American Nazi's than there were German Nazi's ---

have you all forgotten William Beattie?

even in the 30's and 40's there were German, Brazilian, Chilean, Spanish, Polish, Serbian, Turk, Italian ... even French Nazi's -- read your history "

Probably you are 15 years old !

Don't forget about muslim's nazis !

[Higgly]

"There have been more Canadian and American Nazi's than there were German Nazi's ---

Holy moly. I never would have figured. Are you (cough... misinformed...cough) sure of that?

[Jerry Galinda]

"There have been more Canadian and American Nazi's than there were German Nazi's ---

Holy moly. I never would have figured. Are you (cough... misinformed...cough) sure of that?

It's not mine opinion.

This is quote - from Guthrie !!!!!

Guthrie is very "well" educated !

[Higgly]

Sorry.

[Guthrie]

apparently I am more educated than you guys

all you guys seem to have is insults -- I don't know who is going to be impressed but you have offered no factual response

[Jerry Galinda]

childish boy who rubbish the internet

'"There have been more Canadian and American Nazi's than there were German Nazi's --- ???????????

have you all forgotten William Beattie?

even in the 30's and 40's there were German, Brazilian, Chilean, Spanish, Polish, Serbian, Turk, Italian ... ??????????? even French Nazi's -- read your history "

Probably you are 15 years old !

Don't forget about muslim's "nazis" !

My ......... is better educated than you !