Fresh Agitprop Here!
Posted on 05/08/2006 1:13:54 PM PDT by churchillbuff
Critics of Britain's involvement in Iraq urged Prime Minister Tony Blair to step down Saturday after a helicopter crash killed four British soldiers, bringing jubilant Iraqis to the area to celebrate.
The ugly confrontation that followed between British troops and Shiite gunmen left five Iraqi civilians dead and was the latest bad news for Blair, whose government has lurched from crisis to crisis in recent weeks.
On Thursday, Blair's Labour Party won 26 percent of the vote to the Tories' 40 percent in local council elections. ...[snip]
In the latest poll on the war for the Daily Telegraph newspaper, 57 percent of Britons said they were against the war while 33 percent supported it.
"The public is growing impatient because it's just not at all clear what we are trying to do out there," said Nick Harvey, defense spokesman for the opposition Liberal Democrats. "What is needed is a clear exit strategy to establish the basis upon which British troops would be returned home."
(Excerpt) Read more at mercurynews.com ...
Its clear, however, that Harvey and the Liberal Democrats admit to having no clue what we are trying to do out there. That is their claim to expertise; they have no clue, and they should nevertheless be trusted with making defense policy.
Your cheerleading for a needless war has helped put the GOP in an electoral bind - because most Americans now think it was a mistake (as I predicted from the outset that they would, eventually), and, unlike me, they aren't conservative enough to vote for the GOP anyway. The GOP may lose the House because of the stupid Iraq policy -- as I warned from the beginning. My taxes will rise, and if the Senate goes Dem, we won't get anymore decent judges confirmed. All because of an invasion that wasn't necessary for the national interest or national security, and that has cost the deficit-plagued treasury more than $100 billion.
Something bad happens in the world on a given day, so the government should quit?
With your leftist allies in the press, of course they do.
IF we'd put half the $100 billion that we've spent on an unnecessary invasion of Iraq into U.S. border security, we would have made a real contribution to protecting ourselves from terrorism. Instead, we've fought a "war on terror" halfway around the world while leaving our back door open to illegal-immigrant terrorists.
Bullocks.
No, it doesn't take the media to let people know that their neighbors, in the national guard, are over in Iraq getting shot up, and for what -- a new Iraq constitution that proclaims "Islamic law" as the guiding principle. Americans are dying so the mullahs in Iraq can have an Islamic state, and Christians are being driven out of Iraq. Wonderful. Americans are hearing about this -- and not through the leftist media, but from missionaries and other Christian connections -- and a lot of Americans apparently don't like what they're hearing.
Still spouting Howard Dean talking points?
Leftists like John Paul II and Benedict XVI, two unwavering opponents of the Iraq invasion.
Howard Dean doesn't care about Iraqi Christians. I do.
Christians being driven from Iraq -13/10/04
Christians are being driven from Iraq with escalating violence and threats against them, according to a report from a Catholic priest distributed via the Fides News Service.
Father Nizar Semaan says that Christians in Mosul, are terrified with hard-line radical groups acting in broad daylight, and no one preventing their actions.
"Their intention is to destroy social harmony and upset peaceful co-existence between Christians and Muslims" says Father Nizar Semann.
"The situation is critical and a solution must be found to prevent the worst from happening."
Iraq is home to one of the oldest Christian communities in the world, with an estimated 3% of the population identified as Christian. Under Saddam Hussein, the Iraqi church was protected from religious persecution. Since the invasion, churches have lived under constant fear with a number of attacks recorded against Christians and church buildings, with a number of murders.
Church aid agencies have also at time been forced to pull out of the country.
Talks between religious leaders have been unable to prevent the violence.
In recent weeks in Mosul Dominican Friars and the Christian community have been told by Sunni Wahabit Muslim groups to take their things and leave. However the few Christians who do decide to go, are reportedly finding it very difficult to sell their shops or businesses. The Imam has told Muslims not to buy - but simply to wait until the Christians are chased away, in the belief that they can take the shops and businesses for nothing.
"When I asked one local Muslim known to be a man of peace the reason for this violence" reports the catholic priest, "he said that all the week he is calm but when he goes to the mosque on Fridays and hears the Imam preach violence he loses his reason and feelings of hatred and violence grow in his heart."
"More and more Christians have to put up with being insulted and offended on the streets and girl students at university are forced to wear the Muslim veil."
"Christians are asking: who will protect us? If we ask the Americans to help we will be called traitors and risk death. If we ask the Kurds to protect us we will be accused of working against unity in Iraq."
The report suggests that whilst many Muslims of good will in Mosul don't agree with the threats, they too are too afraid to speak out.
Elsewhere in the country, Christians, including rich Christians in Baghdad, are moving away to Syria or Jordan, or to the north where they feel safer with the Kurds.
Many engineers, doctors and university teachers are leaving Iraq, after receiving threats. Those who want to stay are oten told they must pay large sums of money for protection.
"There is a war on people with talent and those working to improve the situation in our country. The aim of the extremists is to empty Iraq of educated people and businessmen so terrorists can take over and Iraq will be at the mercy of ignorant people and radical Islamic groups" said Father Nizar.
Security is a problem in large towns and in villages where Christians are a majority. These villages are surrounded by Muslim villages where people are armed to the teeth with weapons which belonged to Saddam's army.
"We are not armed because we do not believe in the law of armed force. But how long can Christians resist waiting for death with their arms crossed?" the catholic priest continued.
"I call on the international civil society and all people of good will to intervene to prevent a massacre. We do not want another Darfur. We must act quickly, the world must know how we suffer."
"We want to stay in our country. I wonder what would happen to Iraq if its Christians were to abandon the country? The future would certainly be black, the presence of Christians is a sound contribution towards building a democratic Iraq."
You prefer Saddam, Uday and Qusay. Admit it.
You're behind the times. You should read some of the stuff jveritas is translating.
Wouldn;t want you to miss this one either.
Oh, and here he is again. America's version of Neville Chamberlain. Your namesake must be rolling in his grave.
Spoken just like Neville Chamberlain in his best whiny, metrosexual voice. We might lose an election but we saved the Republic.
Rep. Boehner seems to agree that Iraq is problem for the GOP. Since you know better, you might want to call him and set him straight.
Reagan granted amnesty. There isn't any president anywhere who has done anything about illegal immigration so stop pretending you're a conservative all worried about the borders.
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