A year of no progress.
By on May 17th, 2007 at 3:30 pm
A year of no progress.
May 20th marks the one-year anniversary of the formation of the Maliki government. Read this new report documenting how little progress has been made on key political benchmarks, including amending the constitution, revising the de-Baathification, oil, and provincial laws, and disarming the militias. More HERE.
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I thought the title was about the current Democrat Congress.
May 17th, 2007 at 3:53 pmSeems to me no news is good news. I guess Thinkprogress is disappointed that there are no bombings, deaths, riots, et. al., to throw at Bush’s feet.
May 17th, 2007 at 3:59 pmClinton’s fault!
May 17th, 2007 at 3:59 pm#3 damn Crump you beat me to it! :D
May 17th, 2007 at 4:00 pmthis is exactly why it never pays to meddle in other countries’ affairs. it doesn’t work when america forces new governments on people, invades, kills and tries to direct the foreign policy of the world.
It never works, and it never will. It’s time this country stops meddling. now.
Some reading:
May 17th, 2007 at 4:00 pm“Can America Bring Peace to the World?”
http://www.populistamerica.com/can_america_bring_peace_to_the_world
Maliki is stuck with his Shiite backers preventing any reconciliation from taking any meaningful effect, with no support for giving the Sunnis any part of oil revenue. This whole farce is going nowhere except a big flush down the toilet of Middle Eastern history.
May 17th, 2007 at 4:00 pmPatrick1,
“I thought the title was about the current Democrat Congress.”
If we changed the headline to “6 years of no progress”, it would have been apt for the last 3 sessions of congress!!
May 17th, 2007 at 4:01 pmThey did pass reparations for Guam because they were attacked by the Japanese…..LOL
May 17th, 2007 at 4:08 pmThe Iraqi government told Chimpy to stop building the wall.
Chimpy went ahead and completed it.
The Iraqi government has been telling Chimpy to get out.
Chimpy is still in Iraq.
It is not the Iraqi government that is “doing nothing”, it is Chimpy.
May 17th, 2007 at 4:08 pmLIES LIES LIES there has been progress on behalf of the Insurgents
Graphic presentation of Attacks in Iraq
http://www.nytimes.com/imagepages/2007/05/16/world/16attacks_graphic.html
May 17th, 2007 at 4:10 pmWhy do the American troops shoot at ambulances in Iraq? Why do journalists hide in their hotel rooms and type up military press releases?
Read the Truth about Iraq from the strangest of sources: a clown.
Read Don’t Shoot the Clowns: Taking a Circus to the Real Iraq by Jo Wilding.
May 17th, 2007 at 4:21 pmMay 17, 2007: The Sunni Arab terrorists have lost many of their long-time refuges over the past year, but are holding on because they have nowhere to go, and face prosecution, or revenge attacks, if they surrender. The terrorists are encouraged by the reports of American politicians seeking to have U.S. troops withdrawn. Most Iraqi Sunni Arabs see that as a disaster, but the terrorists see it as an opportunity to take on the security forces without having to worry about the much more capable American forces. But with U.S. troops gone, the Iraqi security forces will be inclined to wage war the traditional way. That means massive use of firepower against civilians in any neighborhood where the Sunni Arab terrorists show up, or are found. In Syria, the 1982 uprising by Islamic radicals was put down, in part, by the destruction of the town of Hamat, and the massacre of over 10,000 civilians there. That was meant as a message to the rebels. This was the traditional way to deal with uprisings, and it worked. Leaders, and potential rebels, throughout the region remember Hamat, and the hundreds of other rebellious towns and cities that have suffered the same fate over the centuries. The Americans may not respect such local traditions, but once they leave, that will no longer be a problem.
May 17th, 2007 at 4:23 pmSo far this year, many more parts of central Iraq have been cleared of terrorists, and the remaining ones know they have to maintain their visibility to survive. Setting off several bombs a day keeps the terrorists in the news, even if the explosions take place in a smaller and smaller area of Iraq. The terrorists play more to the international media, than they do to anyone inside Iraq. The terrorists are already hated and feared throughout the country, even in Sunni Arab areas. There, the terrorists must increasingly divert resources to terrorize Sunni Arabs, and keep them in line. They are aided by Islamic conservatives, who see all the unrest as an opportunity to impose Taliban like rules on the population. If the terrorists accomplish nothing else, they will have shown how to manipulate the mass media, and divert attention from the true origins of the terrorists, and their objectives. It’s been a masterful job which, of course, the mass media will have no interest in examining anytime soon. In a generation or so, there will be books and articles about it, but the subject will never get a lot of media attention.
May 17th, 2007 at 4:24 pmPatrick1, wow, so not only are you a lunatic religious fanatic – but you’re also a *plagiarist”. Nice one *sshole!
May 17th, 2007 at 4:31 pmYes Patty 1 the Iraqis has US to thank for what you so eagerly pointed out in your last 2 posts. Thats the progress that we’ve made and will lead to the utter destruction of the Iraqi State, such as it is.
May 17th, 2007 at 4:34 pmYou Trolls and your enablers in the WH are pathetic, truly pathetic.
Well, somebody here is an avid read of strategypage.com:
http://www.strategypage.com/qnd/iraq/articles/20070517.aspx
May 17th, 2007 at 4:36 pmI thought the title was about the current Democrat Congress.
Comment by Patrick1 — May 17, 2007 @ 3:53 pm
Bedwetter1, humor’s not your thing.
May 17th, 2007 at 4:50 pmComment by Patrick1 — May 17, 2007 @ 4:24 pm
Obviously cutting and pasting is your thing, plagiarist.
May 17th, 2007 at 4:54 pmPatrick:
May 17th, 2007 at 5:10 pmIs your middle name John? Did the call you PJ when you were little? God I hate that!
wow, it read just like the current do nothing Democratic Lead Congress.
amazing the similiarities of do nothing governments.
May 17th, 2007 at 5:11 pmAnything over one sentence by Patrick is plagiarized. Even a single sentence is suspect if it has more than one clause.
May 17th, 2007 at 5:13 pmI thought the title referred to the Democratic Party. While talking a lot about the war, they are not making much progress in terms of advocating a sincere end to the occupation and withdrawal of US troops. Buying into this same old rhetoric about the United States having the legitimacy to institute “benchmarks” on the Iraqi people is unacceptable.
May 17th, 2007 at 5:37 pmPudrick from you post, you didnt mention the government backed Shiite death squads as part of the problem. Your rooting for those guys , arent you? Be honest? Pick a side, your either for them or against them.
May 18th, 2007 at 5:13 am