12,000 more National Guard troops to Iraq.
By on Apr 5th, 2007 at 8:27 pm
12,000 more National Guard troops to Iraq.
NBC News reports, “Coming on the heels of a controversial ’surge’ of 21,000 U.S. troops that has stretched the Army thin, the Defense Department is preparing to send an additional 12,000 National Guard combat forces to Iraq and Afghanistan.” The one-year mobilizations are involuntary and will begin early next year. Watch Keith Olbermann’s report on it tonight:
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Feel the surge. Poor bastards
April 5th, 2007 at 8:35 pmAh Yes, the “BACKDOOR DRAFT” by USING The National Guard—THIS IS, OF COURSE NOT THE PURPOSE OF The National Guard, BUT ANYTHING GOES TO SAVE CHIMPya and Bushland Uber Allies’ CRAVEN COWARDLY FACES—THESE CREEPS WOULD DRAFT THEIR OWN GRANDMOTHERS IF THEY COULD TO MEET THEIR DASTARDLY POLITICAL ENDS!!!!!
April 5th, 2007 at 8:37 pmThe Democrats are going to have to put Impeachment back on the table to stop our madman President.
April 5th, 2007 at 8:38 pmDoes this dovetail with Bushie’s adamant, no-compromise, gimme-the-money stand.
The surge keeps increasing in numbers and now we see the addition of these Guard soldiers.
OT Big Papa — I was away for a few days. Came home and missed your posts. Glad to see you are still here.
April 5th, 2007 at 8:39 pmI had no idea of this further trick up the Militarist’s sleeve…
April 5th, 2007 at 8:43 pmThis is a far greater insult to the American servicemen and women who wish only to defend our country, not occupy others…
This could be the last straw, as the pool of reservists in this country get drawn down any further.
The potential for weather related domestic disasters, we could easily have a repeat performance from Mother Nature.
There is no preparation afoot in the Gulf Coast, New Orleans is still very vulnerable, Florida could get really nailed any season from here on out…
Bush said today “The government didn’t say, you have to do this, you chose to do it on your own.” This was in Nico’s ‘Strangely Quiet’ post below.
April 5th, 2007 at 8:49 pmI am sure this will make it through the sound bite filter in the media as an interesting contradiction.
Keith just handed Glen Peck’er(face), Mike Allen (of Politiho), and L’il Dick their heads…
…on chiding Ike Skelton for introducing legislation on forbidding the use of the misnomer “global war on terror…
..it seems that the suggestion came from some pretty prominent Bushites in the past…
…like Stephen Hadley and Dummy Rummy…
…Keith Olberman…
…keepin’ ‘em real!
April 5th, 2007 at 8:50 pmSupport the Troops,
April 5th, 2007 at 8:54 pmBring them home!
OT Big Papa — I was away for a few days. Came home and missed your posts. Glad to see you are still here.
Comment by Marie #4
Hey Marie,
thanks for the shout out…
…I’m presently “persona non grata”…
…guess a lot of Lib/Progs didn’t like my mini-treatise on hypocrisy…
…from the Tony Snowjob thingy…
…but I’m gonna keep on keepin’ it real…
…hope things are good with you…
…welcome back…
…the Bushit is thicker than ever…
April 5th, 2007 at 8:55 pmBring home the troops now! Send Bush/Cheney, Kristol, Coulter, Wolfowitz, Limpdick, patrick1, and michael.
April 5th, 2007 at 8:57 pmThis plan has been in the works for months……My husband has known for 4 months that he was being called back up and going to Afghanistan!!!
April 5th, 2007 at 8:59 pmDo not forget include in the pack He who shall not be named Jake â„¢
April 5th, 2007 at 9:00 pm7 US Troops and 4 Brits KIA In Iraq
Thursday 5th of April 2007
by Jay Randal
Seven American soldiers have been killed in Iraq, and four British soldiers in Basra, in the past couple of days.
President George W. Bush’s surge has only caused an escalation of death and has made things worse in Iraq.
Attacks are increasing against coalition troops everywhere in Iraq and more Iraqis are being slaughtered.
The civil war between Sunnis and Shiites is spreading out of Baghdad into every region of the country now.
Sectarian mayhem is mushrooming everywhere, even in Kurdish north, so Iraq disintegrates into anarchy.
Sabotage of Iraq’s petroleum infrastructure continues and can never be completely secured by US military.
The Bush Regime occupation of Iraq has become the worst fiasco/ mistake/ failure in United States history.
It’s way past time to pull all the troops out of Iraq and for Congress to cut-off all funding of Bush’s debacle.
(Jay Randal, political activist and writer in Georgia, USA.)
PS: Contact your Reps and Senators in DC to end Iraq war now!
April 5th, 2007 at 9:00 pmThe Nato spring offensive in Afghanistan has begun.
April 5th, 2007 at 9:11 pmTargeting a single town in a geographically significant valley.
Happy Easter, George.
So what? Clinton and FDR ordered National Guard troops to Iraq too.
April 5th, 2007 at 9:12 pmQuestion, with one weekend a month and 2 weeks a year, how does the National Guard’s training equip them for desert and urban warfare?
Are they also going into a war zone with insufficient training and equipment?
April 5th, 2007 at 9:13 pmI don’t think Iraq actually existed in FDR’s day………
April 5th, 2007 at 9:14 pm(or are you just being funny…..:)
Raven > Iraq officially became an independent nation in 1932, so just about the same time FDR became president in the US.
April 5th, 2007 at 9:19 pmHe’s just being funny. That isn’t our troll Jake.
April 5th, 2007 at 9:21 pmThanks Jay… my understanding is that Britain was the first occupying force at that time. Did any American forces go there in those days? I’m certain they would not have been National Guard troops in any case.
April 5th, 2007 at 9:25 pmSo what? They can handle it. They aren’t punk libs.
April 5th, 2007 at 9:36 pmthey can handle it. They aren’t punk libs-comment by firedickhead.
So, why aren’t you going? You certainly aren’t a “punk lib”. I’ll have your body bag ready.
April 5th, 2007 at 9:42 pmRaven > The British created Iraq in 1918, but occupied it till 1932. No Americans were involved at that time in Iraq. The British re-occupied Iraq during the second world war and departed in 1948. US did not get interested in Iraq until the late 1950s. When Saddam came to power in 1979, then US government under Reagan became his backer.
April 5th, 2007 at 9:47 pmSo what? Clinton and FDR ordered National Guard troops to Iraq too.
Comment by Joke Mayhoffer — April 5, 2007 @ 9:12 pm
Lol. Please do tell us from your interminable wisdom about how those two references compare to the service of the National Guard in Iraq today.
Tell us oh mastertraitor, how your feeble references compare to the dismembered guardsmen returning home today, you pathetic pantywaist.
We’re all ears.
April 5th, 2007 at 9:59 pmfireballs,
punk libs? I’m surprised you figured out how to breathe.
April 5th, 2007 at 10:00 pmDubya and his NeoCon Chickenhawks are using our National Guard like their own Palace Guards. Hope this FINALLY hits the rest of the country between the eyes!
April 5th, 2007 at 10:10 pmWe’re almost halfway thru 2007.
It’s official. George W. Bush is a failed president, and one of the biggest lame duck presidents in U.S. history.
Bush can’t stand the fact that he singlehandedly clustef*cked his entire presidency, so like a kid throwing a tantrum, he’s sending as many troops to Iraq as he can (denial, denial, denial), and being as defiant as he can.
If anyone of these assclowns in BushCo. needs to fitted for an orange jumpsuit, it’s Karl Rove. That bald little f*ck orchestrated the last seven, f*cked-up years. Send that little bastard to assraping prison, and pronto!
April 5th, 2007 at 10:11 pmAND AS USUAL, MORE POLITICAL PARASITES/LEECHES……….
MAGGOTS, TICKS, TWO FACED WORMS, LEECHES, TOM KNOW AMY
KNOW.. KIND OF CRONYISM.
OH YA… WMD, WE SO DESPERATELY NEED PROTECTION OF THE
TERRORISTS, WHO BUSH/CHENEY? :)
IN MY BOOK, UNTIL ALL THIS CORRUPTION STOPS, THEY’RE ALL A BUNCH
OF CROCIDILE DUN DEE = CROOKS = EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THE
TOTALLY CORRUPTED CROOKS AND WE SHOULD DEMAND ALL OF THEM
GET PUKED.
OH YEAH, JUST ANOTHER 12,000, JUST ANOTHER 100 BILLION HOW MANY
TIMES HAS THAT PLAYED OUT, YOU STRATCH ME AND I’LL STRATCH YOU
IT FRIGGIN HAS NOTHING WHAT SO EVER TO DO THE TERRORISTS!!!!!!!!!!!
April 5th, 2007 at 10:20 pmAnd let’s not forget President “I had (five) other priorities” Cheney. Our neighbor – age 45, National Guard, retired military – is leaving wife, son, and new home he wasn’t sure he could pay for – to go off to Iraq. He claims to be proud to serve. I claim to be nauseated.
April 5th, 2007 at 10:26 pmYOU KNOW, I CAN’T TELL YOU HOW MANY TIMES THESE CROOKS HAVE
April 5th, 2007 at 10:26 pmILLEGALLY VIOLATED OUR CONSTITUTION. THEY ARE CROOKS ILLEGAL,
YA KNOW CRIMINAL ACT…. OH NO NO JUST A MINOR ETHICS ISSUE
ALL CROOKS AT THE HIGHEST LEVEL, COMPLETE CRIMINAL ENTERPRISE
SENDING 150,000 OVER TO IRAQ FOR WHAT……… CHRISTMAS MONEY!!!!
AMY AT U.S. OIL POLICY KNOW KIM AT EXXON.. AMY GOES THROUGH
REVOLVING DOOR TO PRIVATE SECTOR. JOHNNY KNOWS LISA AT WHITEHOUSE GOES THROUGH REVOLVING DOOR, ALL DOG GONE
CORRUPTED. WHEN ARE THESE MADMEN GOING TO STOP INVOLVING
US IN THEIR CRIMINAL ACTIVITY AND FINALLY BEGIN SERVING THE
PEOPLE – IN MY BOOK THEY ARE A BUNCH OF CROOKS
I’m feeling a backdoor draft. Let’s see how this year’s hurricane season goes with so many of our National Guard surging in Iraq.
April 5th, 2007 at 10:32 pmComment by ann — April 5, 2007 @ 10:32 pm
With the National Guard and it’s equipment in Iraq, we’ll just have to hire Blackwater to protect us. They did a bang-up job in New Orleans, didn’t they? And look how great that city has recovered! Why, the pictures on Google tell the whole story, don’t they?
[/neocon talking points]
April 5th, 2007 at 10:38 pmWhat needs to happen is for the individual states and governors to say “ENOUGH!” Put a block on this at a state level. He doesn’t control the national guard. Somebody needs to freaking DO something! My GOD, what is it going to take???
April 5th, 2007 at 10:39 pm#32 and #33
April 5th, 2007 at 10:46 pmI agree with you. We need the national guard here. Hurricane season, tornado season and flooding are all predicted this season in various areas of the country — too many of our national guard will be in Iraq — then what? Blackwater? Halliburton &CO?
Homeland Security?
We are on our own.
My GOD, what is it going to take???
Comment by Bluedahlia
It’s going to take lots of white people in a red state getting killed in some sort of disaster, while the National Guard for that area is deployed to Iraq.
April 5th, 2007 at 10:48 pmMy theory is they’re purposely decimating the ranks of the state Guards and Reserves so that when they declare martial law and unleash the Blackwater jackbooters of the world on us, there will be no state Guard to defend us.
Its part of their master plan to round up all the undesirables and throw them in the massive prisons they’re building right now.
How’s that for a conspiracy theory. If you’d told me even a year ago I’d write something like this I’d say no way. But this last year has been simply surreal, anything’s posible.
April 5th, 2007 at 10:55 pmHave I mentioned lately that I loves me some Olbermann….?
April 5th, 2007 at 10:59 pm#37 He makes me giddy. If only he had breasts.
April 5th, 2007 at 11:05 pmHe makes me giddy. If only he had breasts.
Comment by JPark
Arrrggghhhh!! Don’t say that!
Now I have to scrub my eyes with brillo pads!
April 5th, 2007 at 11:15 pmwelcome to the united states of israel.
April 5th, 2007 at 11:24 pmEdward R Olbermann at his best.Please watch.His show is losing views in the key demo
April 5th, 2007 at 11:31 pm#41 Wrong…as usual.
April 5th, 2007 at 11:35 pmcheck the demo for the last 3 months
April 5th, 2007 at 11:37 pm#43 Why don’t you do me a favor and site it, phil. I know, it is foreign territory for you.
April 5th, 2007 at 11:45 pmEdward R Olbermann still gets his ass kick by BOR everynight!!Hell even Nancy Grace bets ERO.
April 5th, 2007 at 11:47 pm#45 Thanks for proving you are nothing but a bag of wind.
April 5th, 2007 at 11:51 pm“The one-year mobilizations are involuntary…”
How can that be? Your (he sure as sheet isn’t mine) very own President just said yesterday that every soldier in Iraq volunteered for the duty and could go home anytime they chose (See an earlier post). For some seventy years I have held the conviction that a Military Coup in the United States was impossible. For the last two years or so I have been praying I was wrong and the day has finally come. Somebody, somehow must rid this Country of the bushco cancer before our beloved Country dies. Anesthesia is unnecessary because these (insert your own pronoun as mine will not pass the filters) have absolutely no feeling, no compassion, no emotion, no love except for greed, and, unfortunately, no shame nor responsibility.
April 5th, 2007 at 11:56 pmOuch the truth hurts ,Its ok if you like ERO.
April 5th, 2007 at 11:57 pm#48 What exactly did you prove, phil? Are you kidding?
April 6th, 2007 at 12:01 amWhat exactly did you prove, phil? Are you kidding?
Comment by JPark
Can it actually be possible that phil is as stupid as michael? Amazing.
April 6th, 2007 at 12:17 am#50 They are pretty similar, actually.
April 6th, 2007 at 12:21 amthe United States military supports terrorist. Can some bush lover please explain this?
http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/04/05/protected.terrorists/index.html
April 6th, 2007 at 1:02 am#52 I love how the media calls it an “opposition group”. Kinda like they did in El Salvador and Honduras.
April 6th, 2007 at 1:36 amphil and michael are soil…
…the right wing conned’self-serving scum…
…throw seeds at ‘em…
…and sh*t grows…
April 6th, 2007 at 2:32 amyeah #53, its really a great troll stopper.. TP should give the article its own thread, heck, its on Cnn’s frontpage now… this sort of takes the air out of their.. but THEIR COUNTRY IS BAD BECAUSE THEY SUPPORT TERRORISTS argument..
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April 6th, 2007 at 2:42 am#45 Phil likes the idea of someone else “kicking some ass”. He sublimates about O’R doing it to Keith and he sublimates about US troops doing it to some foreigners. He should try watching football. Not as many deaths and not as expensive.
I saw Michael Ware’s story on CNN about the Marxist-terrorist-Iranian- dissident group training in Iraq. I’m sure that will work out well—just like all other Republican foreign policy does (sarcasm).
I saw the Nightline story on US supported groups attacking Iran from Pakistan. Ditto on that result.
Notice how our “Christian” pres thinks the solution to everything is violence? Pelosi goes to talk to Syria and she gets attacked!!
April 6th, 2007 at 4:03 amPelosi goes to syria to suck dick.
April 6th, 2007 at 8:07 amGod help us if there was an another actual (see : Katrina) emergency in this country! That’s right. Let’s use our own resources here to serve over in Iraq and make Haliburton more rich.
When is this country going to wake up?
April 6th, 2007 at 8:33 amAbout the CNN article:
“The enemy of my enemy…”
About the Guardsmen:
You do realize that they are not part of the surge, right? The are being put into the normal duty rotation. What this helps to do is to reduce the number of tours another unit will have to serve.
April 6th, 2007 at 8:44 am…or is a Master Plan to reduce the population (see : Katrina)
April 6th, 2007 at 8:46 amI’m sure the original plan was to wait until they’d hacked Jeb Bush in as President in 2008 and then re-institute the draft.
April 6th, 2007 at 9:03 amWhat’s really scary is that Mitt “Moron” Romney is thinking of choosing Jebbie as veep running mate. Worst case scenario : Mitt becomes prez, then something “happens” to Mitt : voila! : the Bush
dynasty is once again reinstalled.
of course, I don’t think Mitt has a snowball’s chance in hell.
April 6th, 2007 at 9:08 amferret face olbermann-douche is the new ugly face of the leftist traitors in America. The self described “progressive” socialists are more of a threat to America then the mooslim sand monkeys.
April 6th, 2007 at 10:10 amI read something the other day that horrified me. Apparently the National Guard do not have the same access to medical care as the regular military so they are having a hard time getting the care they need when they return with PTSD or having lost a limb. That’s absurd. The minute our National Guard is used to augment our military, they National Guard should have access to the same benefits as our regular military.
April 6th, 2007 at 10:17 amIt is long past the point that these soldiers and National Guardsmen realize that they have a brain and come to the realization that they have been used and abused. The hope is that when it is discovered which four states are having their National Guardsmen sent to that quagmire in Iraq, that the local Veterans for Peace organization will hand out to these 21,500 Guardsmen copies of Sir! No Sir!, so they can receive inspiration from those military personnel who said during the Vietnam War that they would no longer participate in an illegal and immoral war. Tell the military and the National Guard- Hell No! We Won’t Go! Tell them that you will no longer be fighting for a war that has been based on lies and that is benefiting corporate interests, such as Big Oil.
April 6th, 2007 at 10:23 am#59… bull$hit-bob…..
April 6th, 2007 at 11:01 amIt will not in any way reduce the number of tours another unit will have to serve.
The armed forces are stretched way to thin, and the current escalation will not be curtailed. It will only be accelerated.
Until such time as Iraq collapses, and blackwater can take over control of “American interests”
The sad thing is, 99% of these GI’s HATE Hillary, think Obama is an ****ger and love Bush. It’s hard for me to feel anything for people who voted overwhelmingly for Bush….TWICE.
April 6th, 2007 at 11:05 am“Against stupidity, the Gods themselves contend in vain”
About the CNN article:
“The enemy of my enemy…â€
right, completely self serving, short sighted logic at it finest.
bob, bless your little heart, you just don’t seem to understand the concept of “hipocracy”, do ya?
you and your ilk are constantly berating all these bad men for helping “terrorists” or whatever, but it sounds to me like they are just using the same logic you are….
the simple point is that any of you flaghumpers who are going to condemn countries simply because they “sponsor terrorists” are going to have to take a long, hard look at the united states history of funding groups who have engaged in violence against civilian populations.
be honest.. you guys don’t like brown skinned people, people of a different religion than yourself, people who sell oil in euros, or people who don’t like israel. thats your real beef with countries like Iran, because with regard to “terrorist sponsors”, we are high on that list. any of you righties care to discuss the central american death squads we funded? or is taking non-combatants from thier home and “dissapearing” them not considered terrorism because it doesnt involve explosions?
April 6th, 2007 at 11:06 amHey 66, are you a total fool, or do you just play one on this post? Are you in the military, or have your “sources” told you how we all hate hillary, and think that about Obama? FYI, I just polled my coworkers (I’m active duty AF), and they don’t think that about Obama. Maybe it’s because we are taught a little tolerance here, or maybe it’s because we’re not all the neanderthals you make us out to be….you make the call.
April 6th, 2007 at 12:15 pm7 U.S. and 4 British troops were killed in the last couple of days in Iraq. And more Iraqis are massacred as attacks increase against coalition troops. Ending this unsuccessful war would be the right decision now–not to send 12,000 more national guards troops to Iraq! Bush has disappointed the majority of Americans through his conduct of war, as it has proven to be an utter mistake and failure. Furthermore, Bush continues to put the Millennium Development Goals on the backburner. Back in 2000, 191 world leaders agreed upon a time-frame to eradicate global poverty by 2025. Bush’s actions prove that the lives lost everday from war and poverty are not his top concern.
April 6th, 2007 at 1:01 pmWe need about a 1000 more Keith Olberman’s.
April 6th, 2007 at 1:10 pmWe seem to be slowly in the process of realizing that whatever it is Bush has planned for Iraq, which has kept US stuck there long after the demise of Mr. Hussein, has failed. Just a few more months of kicking in doors and we’ll be able to conclude that it either worked, or nothing will have really changed. He seems to be building a private corporate-taxpayer-paid army of Darth Vader stormtrooper mercenaries while crippling our Army at the same time. Put an end to Bush’s case study in failure and illegal war making as well as whatever other devious thing he’s been lying about, and bring the troops home. Bush insists on more failure, and will hide behind this war for all it’s worth because he knows his reckoning will come when our troops come home.
April 6th, 2007 at 2:28 pmWhat does that make it, 35 maybe, left in the US with hurricane season coming?
April 6th, 2007 at 2:34 pmAnd another thing. Bush accuses Democrats in Congress of trying to macromanage the war, but what has he done. The Iraq study groups tries to deliver some common sense to this President from Hell, and so he does the opposite. Then his Generals tell him it won’t work so he fires them. Or I guess I should just say those Generals abruptly step down. Now he’s installed some commanders who will agree with his stupid idea of how to fight this war with a few more months of kicking in people’s doors, and it’s the Democrats trying to macromanage the war just because they want this war based on, and fought with well established lies. This war needs to finally be over before our country itself becomes the war’s next victim.
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April 9th, 2007 at 1:07 amI would love to see how many of you anti-war, annti-military freaks out there have either served in the military or are in the military…..MAYBE…JUST MAYBE then you’d pull you liberal head out of your ass and get with reality! go back to starbucks with your laptop and write some more anti-American blogs…it’s a free country to do as you please because of our way of life AND our military. Start appreciating or go to CANADA!!
April 11th, 2007 at 5:49 pmoh yes…by the way, there are terrorists who want to kill you out there be it from Iraq, Afganistan, Iran or other! Serve your country and feel proud or go to CANADA “a”!
April 11th, 2007 at 5:51 pmHarry Convict
Good work.
April 7th, 2008 at 8:05 pmFlorencio
You always have a choice, even if it is only a choice of your attitude.
April 12th, 2008 at 10:22 am