Comments on: Boot: Both Decrease And Increase In Troop Deaths Prove The Surge Is Success

By: SystemsThinker

SystemsThinker — Tue, 06 May 2008 17:15:04 +0000

This is known as creating a Double Bind. It’s a great way to drive someone crazy!

By: Yankeluh

Yankeluh — Tue, 06 May 2008 12:29:43 +0000

If Boot and his like minded butts think this is the way to confront their fears of the world, I say it is time for them to pick up weapons and lead the fight. These are typical heroes who love to send other people to their deaths fighting for some unknown cause.

By: Lusmu

Lusmu — Tue, 06 May 2008 08:24:58 +0000

“The Surge”… is another empty word nowadays. Like democracy or patriotism.

It used to refer to the temporary troop increase after the disastrous hammering the US military and Iraqi civilians were taking, now it has morphed into a sort of catch-all phrase for any military activity in Iraq. No matter why the operations are conducted or if they are simply reactions to a false move to repair a previous mistake. A big reason for this is that “The Surge” has become permanent, but since the right cannot admit that they were wrong (again), “The Surge” is still going on.

That’s why dimwits like Boot keep making these contradictory statements. They conveniently brush aside all the objections by moving the goal posts.

By: thirdparty

thirdparty — Tue, 06 May 2008 07:36:32 +0000

We know why casualties have risen – it’s because of a necessary increase in conflict in Basra and Baghdad meant to combat the Mehdi Army. This has had positive results; as we saw recently, the main Sunni political bloc in the Iraqi parliament decided to return to the government.

By: Arctic Ghetto

Arctic Ghetto — Tue, 06 May 2008 07:05:52 +0000

“there is copious evidence” that Boot is getting tangled in his own lies.

By: DallasNE

DallasNE — Tue, 06 May 2008 06:42:30 +0000

This dude can’t even get his talking points right.

We are taking more casualties now, just as we did in the first part of 2007, because we have taken up the next crucial challenge of this war: confronting the Shia militias.

We are arming the Badr Shia militia that is made up of exiles that lived in Iran for years. We are, however, confronting the Mahdi Army loyal to al Sadr. The problem with the blockade of Sadr City is that it is creating a humanitarian disaster. It is so heavy handed that even the Sunni’s are complaining about this gruesome operation.

By: Max-1

Max-1 — Tue, 06 May 2008 04:47:39 +0000

Is Max Boot coming or going?

By: COProgressive

COProgressive — Tue, 06 May 2008 04:34:10 +0000

Does anyone still listen to what the Neo-Nitwits say anymore? They were wrong in 1996, they were wrong in 2000, they were really wrong in 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008 and I sure the will continue to be wrong through 2100.

“We (the R’s and C’s) are all capable of believing things which we know to be untrue, and then, when we are finally proved wrong, impudently twisting the facts so as to show that we were right.” – George Orwell

By: Cal Malenky

Cal Malenky — Tue, 06 May 2008 03:58:31 +0000

Are the people who follow this bozo called BootBots?

By: Lt. Colonel Fred Seamon

Lt. Colonel Fred Seamon — Tue, 06 May 2008 02:55:38 +0000

I am so effing tired of bellicose neocon cowards with no military service or knowledge being given positions with organizations such as the Council on Foreign Relations Senior where they are allowed to pontificate as if they knew what the hell is going on.

By: robertoroberto

robertoroberto — Tue, 06 May 2008 01:37:44 +0000

i still think the name Max Boot is hilarious. It goes to prove the old saying, the people will believe anyone aslong as their name is hilarious.

By: SpoxLogic

SpoxLogic — Tue, 06 May 2008 00:53:33 +0000

The surge is working because the amount of GI deaths are down…
What’s that…?..Ohh, the vioence is increasing?
…in that case, the surge is working because more GIs are dying.

,,,EH?
Aarrgghh!! My brain hurts.

By: Wayne

Wayne — Tue, 06 May 2008 00:19:39 +0000

That is probably the most juvenile circular logic I have ever heard in my life.

How has this guy lived this long without being confined to a straight jacket in a rubber room?
He’s nucking futz.

By: Left Coast Mike

Left Coast Mike — Tue, 06 May 2008 00:16:30 +0000

ASSHAT!!!!!

By: stateofthedivision

stateofthedivision — Tue, 06 May 2008 00:03:51 +0000

Good thing Fran Townsend is now a contributor for CNN. She floated the Iran’s harboring al Qaeda Management Councils some time back. Now Max has Shia fundamentalists training their sworn enemy, Sunni extremists. Consider it similar to the KKK working with the Black Panthers.

By: Exit Stage Left

Exit Stage Left — Mon, 05 May 2008 23:27:27 +0000

Bootlicker and that asswipe Yon are probably camped out at the recruiters office as we speak.

By: Exit Stage Left

Exit Stage Left — Mon, 05 May 2008 23:26:01 +0000

StratRat Says:
What’s with the hair? I thought a kitten had become tangled up in his coif. Maybe it’s a combover?

It looks like zoysia plugs gone awry.

By: Merlin

Merlin — Mon, 05 May 2008 23:21:50 +0000

Max Boot??? I suffered his weekly garbage in the LA Times op-ed pages for way to long. The Times decision to feature him was one of the reasons I cancelled my subscription after 35 years of getting the paper.

And here he is again! Gracing TPs post. Will I never escape from this idiot’s ranting???

By: BearCountry

BearCountry — Mon, 05 May 2008 23:21:21 +0000

I still believe that the plan is to break the military, or, at least, stretch it so thin that it will provide the excuse for more mercenaries, especially here at home. People like boot or romney’s sons or w’s next generation have no interest in putting their lives on the line for this fighting. It doesn’t matter how many lives (including those US military families) are lost are broken. The neocons will “fight on” at their keyboards, risking their lives daily in this noble cause.

By: christopher wiwi

christopher wiwi — Mon, 05 May 2008 23:19:39 +0000

The surge will work at any cost, wounded and dead soldiers and civilians alike,the reich will do absolutley anything for this surge to succeed, In the meantime Iraq gets destroyed and America sinks into oblivion.phuck the shrub.