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Nightmare: Iraq

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Posted on Nov 28, 2006
  • A classified Marine Corps report says that the U.S. cannot defeat the insurgency in western Iraq.
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  • Iran-backed Hezbollah is training Shiite militia members in Iraq, according to a U.S. official.

  • Washington Post:

    The U.S. military is no longer able to defeat a bloody insurgency in western Iraq or counter al-Qaeda’s rising popularity there, according to newly disclosed details from a classified Marine Corps intelligence report that set off debate in recent months about the military’s mission in Anbar province.

    The Marines recently filed an updated version of that assessment that stood by its conclusions and stated that, as of mid-November, the problems in troubled Anbar province have not improved, a senior U.S. intelligence official said yesterday. “The fundamental questions of lack of control, growth of the insurgency and criminality” remain the same, the official said.

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    N.Y. Times:

    WASHINGTON, Nov. 27—A senior American intelligence official said Monday that the Iranian-backed group Hezbollah had been training members of the Mahdi Army, the Iraqi Shiite militia led by Moktada al-Sadr.

    The official said that 1,000 to 2,000 fighters from the Mahdi Army and other Shiite militias had been trained by Hezbollah in Lebanon. A small number of Hezbollah operatives have also visited Iraq to help with training, the official said.

    Iran has facilitated the link between Hezbollah and the Shiite militias in Iraq, the official said. Syrian officials have also cooperated, though there is debate about whether it has the blessing of the senior leaders in Syria.

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    By Bernard, November 29, 2006 at 6:24 am #
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    The iraqis can bathe in their own blood till kingdom come for all I care.

    What bush and the neocons have done is f-ed up but it is still better than had we not gone there in the first place.

    Islamic hatred for the rest of us existed long before 9/11 or GWB. Thye hate us and want us destroyed. They are right this minute fighting themselves in iraq for the right to be the ones to eventually wipe us off the planet.

    So i say stay with dubya and f**k the muslims

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    By Ralph, November 29, 2006 at 2:46 am #
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    Shrug.

    People gotta train somewhere.

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    By JoeC, November 29, 2006 at 1:49 am #
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    Bush may come out of the Iraq debacle smelling like a rose yet. In case you haven’t heard, there’s been a huge economic uptick in Iraq…that Baghdad coffin business is booming!

    http://joecrubaugh.com/blog/2006/11/28/baghdad-coffin-business-thrives/

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    By DennisD, November 29, 2006 at 12:35 am #
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    Just put Saddam back in charge and say it was like the episode of Dallas when Bobby came back from the dead. It makes as much sense as anything else this pathetically corrupt, brain dead government has done in the last six years. Why else would Saddam still be around? Nothing about this farce makes adds up except the body count.

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    By Quy Tran, November 28, 2006 at 11:08 pm #
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    1975 when the U.S. escaped from Vietnam the bloodbath was never realized but thousands and thousands re-education camps had been erected with many thousands prisoners died silently.

    Now the U.S. troops are still in Iraq but the Iraqis are bathing with blood and tears daily.

    It’s really illogical that where we are present, even with goodwill and open heart and arms, but we still encounter with opposition and hatred.

    Why ? The prompt answer rests in our ideology and concept that to conquer with forces, bombs, dollars and killings will never a well manned policy.

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    By B, November 28, 2006 at 9:57 pm #
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    It really is to bad we don’t listen to the men on the ground rather than the D.C. falacy factory.

    The Genocidal Oppression Party will not stop of their own volition. It will require us to give them the boot. It will require us to PROSECUTE them. It will require the release of the Guatamano Detainees to make room for the TRUE terrorists. They can await their international trials there. I’m sure there will be plenty of extradition requests. These people have killed, maimed, raped, tortured, and worse all around the world.

    We must be thorough, Dems., Repubs., Media magnates, business bribery practitioners, religious parasites that push their beliefs down everyone elses throat (crusaders), lobbyists, and on and on. Everyone complicit in the recent state of affairs. 

    B

    http://b-political.blogspot.com/

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    By William, November 28, 2006 at 9:38 pm #
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    It boils down to this. Look what Bush and the neocons have unleashed on the world.  It is not a can of worms, it is a barrel of vipers.  Rove, Cheney, Feith, Dumsfeld, Wolfowitz, et. al. may be the fiends responsible for the end of civilization as we know it.  The, pardon as I digress, most massive cluster F_ _ K in recorded history.  They must be held accountable.
    Will

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