Report says Iraq problems were expected

AP ^ | 5/25/07 | KATHERINE SHRADER

[Gritty]

[Dr. Frank fan]

I’m not sure why it’s supposed to be news, or important, that “problems were expected”. This was a war. Of course problems were expected. For example, that some number of our soldiers would get killed, is something I consider a problem. And it is something I expected. This doesn’t really add up to any kind of argument for anything however; we decided on approving war regardless of whatever problems were expected. And so we did.

[RightWhale]

One thing not anticipated is how many there are in the ME who are weak-willed and do whatever their imam suggests. If their lemming behavior were constrained to body piercings and tattoos like our own young the level of dismay would be much less.

[SunkenCiv]

Phase 2 had "become too embroiled in politics and partisanship to produce an accurate and meaningful report."

Hey, I think that was predicted in earlier reports on FR. ;')

Khalaf al-Ayan, is suspected of involvement in the April 12 Parliament bombing... stores of TNT that matched the kind used in the suicide belt that detonated on April 12 at the Iraqi parliament's cafeteria. That blast killed a member of parliament, Mohammed Awad, a Sunni Arab member of Mr. Ayan's Dialogue Front, yet the terrorist who killed him is believed to have been a member of Awad's security detail... also implicates him in a string of attacks in Mosul on May 17 that detonated bridges and blew up a police station, according to one senior Iraqi Sunni official and an American intelligence officer who asked not to be named because of the sensitivity of the investigation. A raid last week on his parliamentary offices, in which American forces participated, yielded time-stamped before-and-after photos of the attacks, according to these sources.

Thanks Ernest. I wonder if he'll return to resistance after he's hanged?