A guest??? Ahem, excuse me? I think when Dana got hit with the mic that it loosened a screw in her brain.

Memo to Dana: Iraq citizens want the U.S. gone from their country. They are evicting us, Dana. Our so-called “guest card” that you claim we have has been stamped no admittance.

Those arguments are truly stupid – even for you. You ought to be really embarrassed.

Just like Poland is protected by her Russian Friends,
El Salvadors protected by Americans……..

EugeneDebs Says:

NO country with 150,000 foriegn troops is anything but occupied.

Keltoi says it is not an occupation because Helen Thomas called it an occupation. Of course, he didn’t tell us what it is.

Logic is not Keltoi’s strong suit. His lone thought is that anyone who disagrees with George W. Bush is wrong.

Keltoi, was that a serious question? Helen Thomas has been a respected journalist, a REAL journalist, and covering the White House since 1960. Her observations and opinion have some weight behind them, especially when they fit the facts: it’s an occupation and has been since 2003.

Thank you.
The truth hurts kel’s head, the pain feels like a shoe hitting his opposite, backward thinking head.

Your entire argument about Maliki is stupid. First even if he WERENT a politician saying what is convienient did you accept that argument from the Soviets when the Afghani government ‘INVITED’ THEM in? I am betting you saw the USSR as occupiers and invaders NOT guests. Second the Iraqis DONT WANT US THERE

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2001927572_iraqpoll13.html

82 percent of Iraqis oppose U.S. occupation

WASHINGTON — Four out of five Iraqis report holding a negative view of the U.S. occupation authority and of coalition forces, according to a new poll conducted for the occupation authority.

In the poll, 80 percent of Iraqis surveyed reported a lack of confidence in the Coalition Provisional Authority, and 82 percent said they disapprove of the United States and allied militaries in Iraq.

THAT was in 2004. The Iraqis have NEVER seen us as guests. Any spin you put on it trying to pretend we are there because the Iraqis want us there is LUDICROUS

No Keltoi there is NO semantic argument GUESTS are INVITED. Did I MISS the Iraqis inviting us to invade and occupy their country. NO I didnt miss it because it never happened. We ARE OCCUPIERS there can be no reasonable argument we arent. NO country with 150,000 foriegn troops is anything but occupied. It is flat out stupid to pretend otherwise and YES it is insutling our intelligence to even TRY to say anything else. Guests dont kill a few hundred thousand hosts. More than 80% of Iraqis want us gone and have NEVER seen us as anything but occupiers. You want to drink the kool-aid and leave reality far behind thats fine but dont even TRY to pretend we ought to take such idiocy seriously.

“I just find it odd that Helen Thomas view on our status in Iraq holds more weight with TPers than the view of the Iraqi PM.”

Now you value what Maliki says? Maliki has been calling for a timetable for withdrawl since day 1. Why was he ignored then?

“But that demand was foreshadowed by an episode in June 2006 in which al-Maliki circulated a draft policy calling for negotiation of just such a withdrawal timetable and the George W. Bush administration had to intervene to force the prime minister to drop it.”

http://ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=43339

Guests, like fish, stink after three days.”

Didn’t even have a chance to be the first.

You are mixed up. People favor one side or the other. 50-50 gets you nothing.