http://www.iraqwartimeline.org

Brains beats bombs.

The war is lost or won should not be the topic here.
Rather peace should be , freedom of Iraqi people should be… their right to avail education,food,water and other necessities should be….. and all have just been taken away from them ….. and thats why the situation is deteriorating… because the comman man in Iraq is insecure and hopeless ….. somebody has killed his world….his loved ones….killed the PEACEFUL world in which he used to live in…….he picks up the gun in despair…… and thats why casuality figure is growing….
Thousands of insurgents are ready to detonate themselves with explosives just because they have nobody waiting for them back home……

I don’t wanna argue about the generals comments but yes … if the way situation is deteriorating and innocents are being killed by terrorists and coalition forces…… then soon the general’s words will turn into realty.
Iraqi people have still not got their freedom….coalition forces went for that in 2003…… Iraq’s turned into a graveyard and its along way to go as things do not seem to settle in near future…

Doesn’t seem to me like he’s passed the grade of Captain Obvious.

http://www.ccr-ny.org/v2/legal/september_11th/docs/German_COMPLAINT_English_Version.pdf

(Sanchez section begins at page 111)

To really get at the root of national security, global poverty needs to be addressed. The problem isn’t terrorism, it’s the extreme poverty that people live in that fosters the ideology. If our government really wanted to halt terror, war and genocide, it would spend money on helping lesser-developed nations grow economically. Supporting the Millennium Development Goals to end global poverty would be more beneficial than starting wars all over the Middle East and creating more anti-Western sentiment.

Dismal as he believes the situation to be in Iraq, Sanchez said all isn’t lost. He called for dramatically improved U.S. and Iraqi leadership, coupled with a commitment of at least 100,000 troops for six or seven more years. “It’s very questionable,” he added, that Americans would support such a commitment if most of the forces were from the U.S.

“In terms of the will of the America people, I think that’s pretty frayed at this point,” Sanchez commented.

The point that probably more clearly can be made is that he does echo Reid despite this comment above – the war being waged by the Admin can not be won, and is at serious risk of “defeat”.

Monday June 4th 2007

Iraqi Oil Workers On Strike

Workers from the Iraqi Pipelines Company in Basra are on strike today.

Workers began the strike at 6.30 this morning by shutting two 14″
pipelines carrying oil and gas products inside Iraq.

The strike is over unfulfilled demands tabled by the Iraqi Federation of
Oil Unions (IFOU) – of which the Iraqi Pipelines Union is a member – to
Prime Minister Maliki on May 16th 2007. The 16 demands focus on improved
working conditions, pay, land for homes, a reduction in the national
price of fuel and crucially, inclusion in the Oil Law drafting process.

Prime Minister Maliki agreed to the Federation’s demands and established
a committee comprised of Ministry of Oil, IFOU and Southern Oil Company
representatives to implement the demands.

Strike leaders say, if the government does not implement the agreement,
the 48″ crude pipeline to Baghdad will be shut.

Further details including a statement from the union tba

see http://www.basraoilunion.org and http://www.handsoffiraqioil.org for further
updates

I’m calling it. Victory: me.

Better luck next time, CT.

GWB: “Expect high casualties over this summer”

Reality: “Yeah, thanks Sparky, you’re a genius”

I’d say GWB will have a lot of blood on his conscious, however, I think the decades of cocaine and beer bongs erased that part of his barely evolved monkey brain.

I have to stop reading this… ThinkProgress is a very nice thing but there’s WAY to much BS going on right now.

As near as we can tell, its fact-distortion algorithm was corrupted when it actually tried to grapple logically with a fact-based argument from one of TP’s longtime posters. When the facts kept adding up against the position held by CT V-1, it apparently blew a circuit board, which is why we now advise our troll-American employees against actually addressing arguments head-on.

Our field ops told us the best thing to do would be to let CT V-1 roam the blogosphere, and its batteries would probably run out of juice before its screwed-up logic did too much damage to our side. Unfortunately, the batteries were the only thing that were built well on the thing. They’re the same batteries that the Mars Rover had.

Therefore, our best recommendation is, if you enounter CT V-1, please try not to draw any attention to it. It can only hurt our side.

having trouble finding links?

Ah, GREED, the only motivator in the CULTURE OF CORRUPTION! You cowardly piece of immoral sh*t.

No big loss. He never was very effective.

Sure you can, you st*pid little sh*th**d. It means the best you can hope for is a “draw”, but not a “victory”…

Then again, in the black and white world of the lunatic fringe wingnut, such concepts as “stalemate”, or “quagmire” make no sense – do they little f*cker?

Sanchez may indeed by correct that the best we can do is “stave of defeat” (which may be a worthy goal), but he never said the war is “lost.” Comment by Exley — June 4, 2007 @ 3:14 pm

If the best you can do is “stave off defeat” (which means to either delay or postpone, or “draw”, then no, you can’t “win”, dum bass.

I know you are still trying to defend Harry Reid, TP. But after his performance in dropping the Iraq troop withdrawal timetables, I don’t know how many posters you will get here singing Reid’s praises anymore. Comment by Exley — June 4, 2007 @ 3:14 pm

I know you are still trying to defend Bush & Company, Exley. But after his performance in dropping his support for the safety of the troops, and making it clear he was willing to starve and kill them all instead of letting “reality” face him – I understand why. I don’t know how many posters you will get here singing Bush’s praises anymore. St*pid little coward f*cker.

Yet this aging model is working directly against my messaging efforts, and against the interests of The Party. I will send an alert to the main server.