Comments on: U.S. embassy in Baghdad told ‘remain under hard cover’ due to violence. http://thinkprogress.org/2008/03/27/us-embassy-in-baghdad-told-remain-under-hard-cover-due-to-violence/ Thu, 26 Nov 2009 09:15:46 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: L. Hussein Annie http://thinkprogress.org/2008/03/27/us-embassy-in-baghdad-told-remain-under-hard-cover-due-to-violence/comment-page-2/#comment-4597490 L. Hussein Annie Fri, 28 Mar 2008 14:13:02 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2008/03/27/us-embassy-in-baghdad-told-remain-under-hard-cover-due-to-violence/#comment-4597490 Violence is down in Iraq. Bush: "The surge is working!" Violence is up in Iraq. Bush: "The surge is working!" Violence is down in Iraq.

Bush: “The surge is working!”

Violence is up in Iraq.

Bush: “The surge is working!”

]]> By: specialist f http://thinkprogress.org/2008/03/27/us-embassy-in-baghdad-told-remain-under-hard-cover-due-to-violence/comment-page-2/#comment-4594776 specialist f Fri, 28 Mar 2008 13:01:14 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2008/03/27/us-embassy-in-baghdad-told-remain-under-hard-cover-due-to-violence/#comment-4594776 Actually the biggest and most unforgivable "mistake" was invading in the first place.Alot of the characters of this war said they were "pressured" into cooking the NIE and other "intelligence". Maybe they should have had the HONOR and intestinal fortitude to take a stand when it mattered! Actually the biggest and most unforgivable “mistake” was invading in the first place.Alot of the characters of this war said they were “pressured” into cooking the NIE and other “intelligence”. Maybe they should have had the HONOR and intestinal fortitude to take a stand when it mattered!

]]> By: specialist f http://thinkprogress.org/2008/03/27/us-embassy-in-baghdad-told-remain-under-hard-cover-due-to-violence/comment-page-1/#comment-4594682 specialist f Fri, 28 Mar 2008 12:57:08 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2008/03/27/us-embassy-in-baghdad-told-remain-under-hard-cover-due-to-violence/#comment-4594682 Mickey Says@39 I just got done watching the rest of it. Although it may be a little white-washed for some I think it was pretty well done. Not taking out Sadr early on was just one of many,many of shrub and co's screw-ups. This "war" was FUBARed from the get go.I read the comments on PBS's site and most were positive. There were a few of the 19%ers who still think this is not BUSH'S WAR! It seems the buck never stops on him! Mickey Says@39
I just got done watching the rest of it. Although it may be a little white-washed for some I think it was pretty well done. Not taking out Sadr early on was just one of many,many of shrub and co’s screw-ups. This “war” was FUBARed from the get go.I read the comments on PBS’s site and most were positive. There were a few of the 19%ers who still think this is not BUSH’S WAR! It seems the buck never stops on him!

]]> By: OleHippieChick http://thinkprogress.org/2008/03/27/us-embassy-in-baghdad-told-remain-under-hard-cover-due-to-violence/comment-page-1/#comment-4592564 OleHippieChick Fri, 28 Mar 2008 12:14:26 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2008/03/27/us-embassy-in-baghdad-told-remain-under-hard-cover-due-to-violence/#comment-4592564 This looks all too familiar. <a href="http://customwire.ap.org/dynamic/files/photos/C/c09ea648-d838-4c27-89a5-5a7d81790e33.html?SITE=FLROC&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT" rel="nofollow"> Hussein!</a> This looks all too familiar.

Hussein!

]]> By: Max-1 http://thinkprogress.org/2008/03/27/us-embassy-in-baghdad-told-remain-under-hard-cover-due-to-violence/comment-page-1/#comment-4592278 Max-1 Fri, 28 Mar 2008 09:46:14 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2008/03/27/us-embassy-in-baghdad-told-remain-under-hard-cover-due-to-violence/#comment-4592278 . Nope! NEVER SAW THAT RESURGENCY COMING... IN THE LEAST. I. AM. SHOCKED!!! [/snark] .

Nope!
NEVER SAW THAT RESURGENCY COMING… IN THE LEAST.

I.
AM.
SHOCKED!!!

[/snark]

]]> By: Lusmu http://thinkprogress.org/2008/03/27/us-embassy-in-baghdad-told-remain-under-hard-cover-due-to-violence/comment-page-1/#comment-4590400 Lusmu Fri, 28 Mar 2008 08:16:44 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2008/03/27/us-embassy-in-baghdad-told-remain-under-hard-cover-due-to-violence/#comment-4590400 Must be some kind of a mistake. It cannot be mortar or rocket fire. Fred Kagan said that the civil war in Iraq is over! http://www.crooksandliars.com/2008/03/27/wronger-than-wrong-fred-kagan-decrees-civil-war-in-iraq-is-over/ Must be some kind of a mistake. It cannot be mortar or rocket fire. Fred Kagan said that the civil war in Iraq is over!
http://www.crooksandliars.com/2008/03/27/wronger-than-wrong-fred-kagan-decrees-civil-war-in-iraq-is-over/

]]> By: Chocolate Jesus http://thinkprogress.org/2008/03/27/us-embassy-in-baghdad-told-remain-under-hard-cover-due-to-violence/comment-page-1/#comment-4588680 Chocolate Jesus Fri, 28 Mar 2008 07:14:40 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2008/03/27/us-embassy-in-baghdad-told-remain-under-hard-cover-due-to-violence/#comment-4588680 most of these idiot trolls dont show up with thier mailing list talking points, quite frankly, i dont think any of them have figured out how to spin this whole shia on shia clusterf@ck as something which demonstrates how the surge is working.. Exlexlia was around yesterday, regaling us with interesting stories about senators who unknowingly had thier trip to iraq paid for by saddam in order that they might accurately learn that iraq was not in possesion of any wmd...strangely he hasnt had any interesting links to show us recently about how great the surge is doimg most of these idiot trolls dont show up with thier mailing list talking points, quite frankly, i dont think any of them have figured out how to spin this whole shia on shia clusterf@ck as something which demonstrates how the surge is working..
Exlexlia was around yesterday, regaling us with interesting stories about senators who unknowingly had thier trip to iraq paid for by saddam in order that they might accurately learn that iraq was not in possesion of any wmd…strangely he hasnt had any interesting links to show us recently about how great the surge is doimg

]]> By: woodguy http://thinkprogress.org/2008/03/27/us-embassy-in-baghdad-told-remain-under-hard-cover-due-to-violence/comment-page-1/#comment-4586940 woodguy Fri, 28 Mar 2008 06:14:32 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2008/03/27/us-embassy-in-baghdad-told-remain-under-hard-cover-due-to-violence/#comment-4586940 Chocolate Jesus Says: March 28th, 2008 at 1:20 am im utterly shocked exley isnt on this thread… Shocked and delighted. I have noticed a paucity of trolls this last few days: no GiGi, Exley, keltoi and the rest of the crazy wingnuts. What gives? Is there a trollathon somewhere? Chocolate Jesus Says:
March 28th, 2008 at 1:20 am
im utterly shocked exley isnt on this thread…

Shocked and delighted. I have noticed a paucity of trolls this last few days: no GiGi, Exley, keltoi and the rest of the crazy wingnuts. What gives? Is there a trollathon somewhere?

]]> By: Chocolate Jesus http://thinkprogress.org/2008/03/27/us-embassy-in-baghdad-told-remain-under-hard-cover-due-to-violence/comment-page-1/#comment-4585202 Chocolate Jesus Fri, 28 Mar 2008 05:20:26 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2008/03/27/us-embassy-in-baghdad-told-remain-under-hard-cover-due-to-violence/#comment-4585202 im utterly shocked exley isnt on this thread... im utterly shocked exley isnt on this thread…

]]> By: Ditch Mitch KY http://thinkprogress.org/2008/03/27/us-embassy-in-baghdad-told-remain-under-hard-cover-due-to-violence/comment-page-1/#comment-4584806 Ditch Mitch KY Fri, 28 Mar 2008 05:04:11 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2008/03/27/us-embassy-in-baghdad-told-remain-under-hard-cover-due-to-violence/#comment-4584806 And the military experts, past and present, would say Iraq is FUBAR. America's colony in Iraq is imploding before our eyes. And the military experts, past and present, would say Iraq is FUBAR. America’s colony in Iraq is imploding before our eyes.

]]> By: pete http://thinkprogress.org/2008/03/27/us-embassy-in-baghdad-told-remain-under-hard-cover-due-to-violence/comment-page-1/#comment-4583862 pete Fri, 28 Mar 2008 04:28:38 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2008/03/27/us-embassy-in-baghdad-told-remain-under-hard-cover-due-to-violence/#comment-4583862 I believe that military experts, in the past, would call this situation; "pinned down, cut off and under fire". Generally these conditions are followed by "defeat". I believe that military experts, in the past, would call this situation; “pinned down, cut off and under fire”. Generally these conditions are followed by “defeat”.

]]> By: JBaddo http://thinkprogress.org/2008/03/27/us-embassy-in-baghdad-told-remain-under-hard-cover-due-to-violence/comment-page-1/#comment-4583650 JBaddo Fri, 28 Mar 2008 04:21:09 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2008/03/27/us-embassy-in-baghdad-told-remain-under-hard-cover-due-to-violence/#comment-4583650 Stay the course, boys. Freedom and democracy, freedom and democracy, freedom and democracy.....helmets and kevlar, helmets and kevlar, helmets and kevlar. Stay the course, boys. Freedom and democracy, freedom and democracy, freedom and democracy…..helmets and kevlar, helmets and kevlar, helmets and kevlar.

]]> By: Mickey http://thinkprogress.org/2008/03/27/us-embassy-in-baghdad-told-remain-under-hard-cover-due-to-violence/comment-page-1/#comment-4581470 Mickey Fri, 28 Mar 2008 02:59:57 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2008/03/27/us-embassy-in-baghdad-told-remain-under-hard-cover-due-to-violence/#comment-4581470 In <strong><a href="http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/bushswar/" rel="nofollow">Bush’s War</a></strong> [Part 2, Chapter 4] there’s a segment called Bremmer’s Next Edict: Dissolve the Iraqi Army ["And then there is the issue of taking on Moqtada al-Sadr"]. It’s talking about the coming of Paul Bremer and the appointment of General Sanchez [his first major military command] in the Spring of 2003. Apparently these two were mostly oil and water, but they did agree on one thing - Moqtada al-Sadr was one very dangerous cookie. Bremer wanted to take him on, and pushed Washington hard. Sanchez had the operation to fight al-Sadr ready to go. Rice and Rumsfeld just never got around to acting. They said it "worried" them. In Bush’s War [Part 2, Chapter 4] there’s a segment called Bremmer’s Next Edict: Dissolve the Iraqi Army ["And then there is the issue of taking on Moqtada al-Sadr"]. It’s talking about the coming of Paul Bremer and the appointment of General Sanchez [his first major military command] in the Spring of 2003. Apparently these two were mostly oil and water, but they did agree on one thing – Moqtada al-Sadr was one very dangerous cookie. Bremer wanted to take him on, and pushed Washington hard. Sanchez had the operation to fight al-Sadr ready to go. Rice and Rumsfeld just never got around to acting. They said it “worried” them.

]]> By: Jackie http://thinkprogress.org/2008/03/27/us-embassy-in-baghdad-told-remain-under-hard-cover-due-to-violence/comment-page-1/#comment-4581110 Jackie Fri, 28 Mar 2008 02:49:41 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2008/03/27/us-embassy-in-baghdad-told-remain-under-hard-cover-due-to-violence/#comment-4581110 I guess the Government employees were right when they told Rice their didn't want to go to Iraq for their safety. Yes McCain and others tell us how safe the Green Zone is and even Bush thinks it's a good thing for Iraq to be fighting and killing. Well most Americans really don't want to hear the horrors that are happening to our soldiers, it's better not to talk about it. Plus the only people that are concerned are those who have son's and daughter's risking their lives. But then again even Dick Cheney said they volunteered SO! I guess the Government employees were right when they told Rice their didn’t want to go to Iraq for their safety. Yes McCain and others tell us how safe the Green Zone is and even Bush thinks it’s a good thing for Iraq to be fighting and killing. Well most Americans really don’t want to hear the horrors that are happening to our soldiers, it’s better not to talk about it. Plus the only people that are concerned are those who have son’s and daughter’s risking their lives. But then again even Dick Cheney said they volunteered SO!

]]> By: vat694848 http://thinkprogress.org/2008/03/27/us-embassy-in-baghdad-told-remain-under-hard-cover-due-to-violence/comment-page-1/#comment-4579936 vat694848 Fri, 28 Mar 2008 02:11:59 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2008/03/27/us-embassy-in-baghdad-told-remain-under-hard-cover-due-to-violence/#comment-4579936 I was in Vietnam in 67-68 and this Iraq thing has the same feel? We need to get our troops out of there, but we have to help with reconstruction, and humanitarian relief. I was in Vietnam in 67-68 and this Iraq thing has the same feel? We need to get our troops out of there, but we have to help with reconstruction, and humanitarian relief.

]]> By: sacopenapa http://thinkprogress.org/2008/03/27/us-embassy-in-baghdad-told-remain-under-hard-cover-due-to-violence/comment-page-1/#comment-4579760 sacopenapa Fri, 28 Mar 2008 02:06:48 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2008/03/27/us-embassy-in-baghdad-told-remain-under-hard-cover-due-to-violence/#comment-4579760 Send Dick Chenney and MacCaine for a stroll to the baghdad's markets... the surge is working! Seriously speaking, if a foringner country invaded and occupied the USA, killing family members, imprisioning them and waterboarding them, would you sit and watch TV or would you give the illegal invader hell? That is what is happening in Iraq, and will continue until it is liberated from the Radical and extremist Bush administration. Send Dick Chenney and MacCaine for a stroll to the baghdad’s markets… the surge is working!
Seriously speaking, if a foringner country invaded and occupied the USA, killing family members, imprisioning them and waterboarding them, would you sit and watch TV or would you give the illegal invader hell? That is what is happening in Iraq, and will continue until it is liberated from the Radical and extremist Bush administration.

]]> By: PollM http://thinkprogress.org/2008/03/27/us-embassy-in-baghdad-told-remain-under-hard-cover-due-to-violence/comment-page-1/#comment-4579022 PollM Fri, 28 Mar 2008 01:40:34 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2008/03/27/us-embassy-in-baghdad-told-remain-under-hard-cover-due-to-violence/#comment-4579022 Will the U.S. military be able to leave Iraq next year? <a href="http://www.youpolls.com/details.asp?pid=1987" rel="nofollow">http://www.youpolls.com/details.asp?pid=1987</a> . Will the U.S. military be able to leave Iraq next year?

http://www.youpolls.com/details.asp?pid=1987

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]]> By: Helen Hussein Rainier http://thinkprogress.org/2008/03/27/us-embassy-in-baghdad-told-remain-under-hard-cover-due-to-violence/comment-page-1/#comment-4578996 Helen Hussein Rainier Fri, 28 Mar 2008 01:39:42 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2008/03/27/us-embassy-in-baghdad-told-remain-under-hard-cover-due-to-violence/#comment-4578996 How can this possibly be so? Bush, McCain, McLieberman, and McGraham all say the surge is working and everything there is secure and stable. A note to Bilbo at #23 -- I do agree that our government has an obligation to "rebuild" our troops should not be left in the lurch. The best thing, I think, is to call on the contiguous Arab states and the UN to introduce peacekeeping forces. As far as who should pay -- I think the war profiteers such as Halliburton, KBR, Blackwater should be forced to pay since they have made out like bandits behind all this. How can this possibly be so? Bush, McCain, McLieberman, and McGraham all say the surge is working and everything there is secure and stable.

A note to Bilbo at #23 — I do agree that our government has an obligation to “rebuild” our troops should not be left in the lurch. The best thing, I think, is to call on the contiguous Arab states and the UN to introduce peacekeeping forces. As far as who should pay — I think the war profiteers such as Halliburton, KBR, Blackwater should be forced to pay since they have made out like bandits behind all this.

]]> By: Ditch Mitch KY http://thinkprogress.org/2008/03/27/us-embassy-in-baghdad-told-remain-under-hard-cover-due-to-violence/comment-page-1/#comment-4578204 Ditch Mitch KY Fri, 28 Mar 2008 01:11:10 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2008/03/27/us-embassy-in-baghdad-told-remain-under-hard-cover-due-to-violence/#comment-4578204 Shhh. Don't tell McWar that the "surge" is not working. Dien Bien Phu indeed. Shhh. Don’t tell McWar that the “surge” is not working.

Dien Bien Phu indeed.

]]> By: specialist f http://thinkprogress.org/2008/03/27/us-embassy-in-baghdad-told-remain-under-hard-cover-due-to-violence/comment-page-1/#comment-4577934 specialist f Fri, 28 Mar 2008 01:03:16 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2008/03/27/us-embassy-in-baghdad-told-remain-under-hard-cover-due-to-violence/#comment-4577934 I'm in the middle of PBS's "Bush's war". It's a very good non-partisan piece.It shows how dysfunctional bush/co government was and still is. A must see for EVERYONE! I’m in the middle of PBS’s “Bush’s war”. It’s a very good non-partisan piece.It shows how dysfunctional bush/co government was and still is. A must see for EVERYONE!

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