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azdave · #76 (**permalink**) 04-05-2008, 10:44 AM

Nothing like getting this communities together. Just think open borders between Iraq and Iran. How sweet is that? Hookah parties and trading some weapons. I see some real positive things going on but unfortunately not in our favor.

Excuse me sir, I have a telegram for Mr. Bin Laden, have you seen him? No one seems to know where he is.

Quart of Beer · #77 (**permalink**) 04-05-2008, 11:41 AM

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Originally Posted by azdave

Nothing like getting this communities together. Just think open borders between Iraq and Iran. How sweet is that? Hookah parties and trading some weapons. I see some real positive things going on but unfortunately not in our favor.

Excuse me sir, I have a telegram for Mr. Bin Laden, have you seen him? No one seems to know where he is.

Bin Laden's probably still hanging out in Pakistan, cooking up new batches of evil nastiness. Now Pakistan is a country that deserves some well placed deliveries of ordnance. Being in Iraq only ensures that, for the most part, well meaning young men and women are put into the line of fire to preserve the United Corporate States of America. Bleed on......

azdave · #78 (**permalink**) 04-05-2008, 04:34 PM

Sir, Bin Laden cannot possibly be in Pakistan. If so he would have been turned over to us as General M is a personal friend of George W. Now we know as George has said that Bin Laden does not concern him but one thing for sure is he is not in Pakistan. My guess Saudi Arabia, nice guest wing in Prince mohammedgeorgeismybuddywekiss's palace. My be wrong but I don't think so.

Swedish goalie · #79 (**permalink**) 04-05-2008, 04:48 PM

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Actually it was Cheney who stated he didn't care what Americans think about the war.

Isnt Cheney a part of the bush adm?

Holy the Goalie · #80 (**permalink**) 04-05-2008, 08:23 PM

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At least Oberman has the balls to call it as it is. He pisses off a lot of people because they can't handle the truth.

No, he pisses people (me) off because he's a pompous ass. Just like O'Reilly, just like every other politico I have ever seen. Olberman's just worse because he talks to me like I'm 7, and he just caught me with my hand in the cookie jar. God help him if a Democrat gets elected President; he won't have a show without Bush to rail against.

RyJ Maduro · #81 (**permalink**) 04-08-2008, 07:45 AM

Holy crap, not only are we winning the war (despite the best efforts of both the Mujahideen and the leftist movement on the homefront,) but there's more intel liking Saddam's WMD to Syria.

'Report on Sept. 6 strike to show Saddam transferred WMDs to Syria' | Jerusalem Post

sloth2946 · #82 (**permalink**) 04-08-2008, 07:53 AM

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Holy crap, not only are we winning the war (despite the best efforts of both the Mujahideen and the leftist movement on the homefront,) but there's more intel liking Saddam's WMD to Syria.

'Report on Sept. 6 strike to show Saddam transferred WMDs to Syria' | Jerusalem Post

Don't hang your hat on that. Remember we had intel about WMDs in Iraq, a smoking gun according to Powell's dog and pony show at the UNSC.

biguglygoalie · #83 (**permalink**) 04-08-2008, 10:38 AM

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Originally Posted by RyJ Maduro

Holy crap, not only are we winning the war (despite the best efforts of both the Mujahideen and the leftist movement on the homefront,) but there's more intel liking Saddam's WMD to Syria.

'Report on Sept. 6 strike to show Saddam transferred WMDs to Syria' | Jerusalem Post

yeah and they just found more terrorist training apparatus too...

sloth2946 · #84 (**permalink**) 04-08-2008, 12:05 PM

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Originally Posted by RyJ Maduro

Holy crap, not only are we winning the war (despite the best efforts of both the Mujahideen and the leftist movement on the homefront,) but there's more intel liking Saddam's WMD to Syria.

'Report on Sept. 6 strike to show Saddam transferred WMDs to Syria' | Jerusalem Post

Yeah...we're winning.

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Fear and fighting in Iraq's Sadr City

by Bryan Pearson2 hours, 39 minutes ago

"We're scared," admitted Abu Muamel as the sudden blast of a mortar round fightened the baby in his arms to tears and set US and Iraqi armoured vehicles racing through Sadr City's smoke-choked streets.

"It's too dangerous to stay here," Abu Muamel added as he and his family of eight on Tuesday fled the sprawling district in eastern Baghdad that is the theatre of raging battles between Mahdi Army militiamen and security forces.

"A mortar landed in our street, killing a boy. I'm taking my family out of here. We're going to stay with relatives in Mansur," the 42-year-old artisan said, referring to a relatively safe part of western Baghdad.

As he spoke another two mortar rounds slammed into a nearby neighbourhood. The explosions drowned out the whine of US Stryker armoured troop carriers and the relentless clatter of Apache helicopters, which have been blasting away at mortar and rocket teams with Hellfire missiles for the past three days.

"That's Jaish al-Mahdi (Mahdi Army) trying to hit the Americans," explained an Iraqi soldier manning a checkpoint at the edge of Sadr City.

"They don't target us, only the Americans," he added as one of Abu Muamel's small daughters began coughing from the acrid smoke in the air.

"We're going now," said the father, herding his children, wife and sisters-in-law through the checkpoint, one small boy tightly clutching his hand, a slightly older girl toddling alongside him carrying a bag crammed with clothes and cuddly toys.

Screaming fire engines sped by, startling supermarket owner Abu Said as he struggled with two young sons to push a large wooden cart crammed with foodstuffs towards his store, three kilometres (one and a half miles) away.

The violence, a vehicle curfew in Sadr City and the destruction in the fighting of the vast Jamila food market have added layers of extra hardship to Abu Said's life.

"People want food so I have to go every day to Al-Shorja market (in central Baghdad) for supplies. Because we can't use vehicles, I have to use this push cart," said Abu Said, dressed in long flowing robes and perspiring from the exertion.

"It takes me three hours to fetch my stocks instead of just half an hour as it did when I used to go to Jamila," he said.

Jumar Kadhum and his wife joined the throngs of people heading through the streets with bags of food they had brought from a market outside Sadr City, taking advantage of an earlier lull in the fighting.

"There are no supplies left inside Sadr City," said Kadhum, balding and in his forties. "We have left our children at home. We all stay in one room because we are so frightened. The children do not go out at all. We have just left quickly to get some supplies. Mortars have been falling all around us. We have seen bodies in the streets."

Other residents said they were stocking up in case the fighting gets worse and they become trapped for days.

"We are all frightened. There is so much gunfire and mortars," said Umm Rusul, carrying supplies of rice, tinned food and bottles of cooking oil, while her young daughter struggled under a large bag of tea.

"There are 17 of us living in the house," she said. "We hear explosions all the time. My children have learnt to tell the difference between a mortar, a rocket, a rocket-propelled grenade, an IED (roadside bomb) and a JDAM (guided bomb).

"It is very dangerous," she added, as three pickup trucks sped by, packed with heavily armed men wearing the uniforms of Iraqi special forces.

"Those were Americans," said an Iraqi soldier wearing wrap-around sunglasses despite the pall cast by the numerous fires set during the fighting.

"The Americans know that the Mahdi Army doesn't target the Iraqi security forces so now they are dressing like Iraqis," added the soldier, expressing a belief, whether true or not, that now seems to be taken as gospel on the streets of the impoverished township of around two million people.

A motor mechanic with a round belly and oil-stained clothes wished the fighting would end.

"I have not been able to work for three days. This is the first time I've left my home since Saturday. My family needs food. We just want peace."

They love us so much that Americans are wearing Iraqi army unis to blend in. Creative yes....but desperate if you ask me.