American senators upbeat on Iraq despite deteriorating security, bombings

AP ^ | 02/19/05 | Todd Pitman

[Pikamax]

American senators upbeat on Iraq despite deteriorating security, bombings By Todd Pitman, Associated Press, 2/19/2005 16:02

BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) As 55 people died in Iraq on Saturday, the holiest day on the Shiite Muslim religious calendar, Sen. Hillary Clinton said that much of Iraq was ''functioning quite well'' and that the rash of suicide attacks was a sign that the insurgency was failing.

Clinton, a New York Democrat, said insurgents intent on destabilizing the country had failed to disrupt Iraq's landmark Jan. 30 elections.

''The concerted effort to disrupt the elections was an abject failure. Not one polling place was shut down or overrun,'' Clinton told reporters inside the U.S.-protected Green Zone, a sprawling complex of sandbagged buildings surrounded by blast walls and tanks. The zone is home to the Iraqi government and the U.S. Embassy.

The five-member U.S. Congressional delegation arrived in Baghdad as a series of suicide bombings and explosions killed 55 people, including an American solder. Much of the violence was aimed at Shiite Muslims, commemorating Ashoura, the festival marking the death of the founder of their sect 14 centuries ago.

[Pikamax]

"Sen. Hillary Clinton said that much of Iraq was ''functioning quite well"

What the ...MY HEART *keels over*

[SmithL]

No bias in THAT headline, huh?

[popdonnelly]

They couldn't just report that the Senators are upbeat. After all, these "journalists" are smarter than the Senators. They have to put in their two cents.

So the news here is that this journalist thinks the security situation is deteriorating.

[waterman478]

It's horsecrap from every angle. Republicans and Bush administration officials have been saying this for months. Apparently, only the expertise of Billary can deliver credibility.

And yes, the editors' bias is clear in the headline (reporters rarely write the actual headlines).

[texasmountainman]

What an up and down day for the msm. They got all excited because of the terrorist attacks at the funerals, but then Sen. Clinton had to go and say that "the insurgents were failing" and "much of Iraq is functioning quite well" and it ruined their day.

[GloriaJane]

It does come as a giant shock! One, that the paper would print good news from Iraq and two, that it came from Hillary. But I read your post and I laughed till I cried!! I'm still laughing so hard I can barley type!! ROFLOL

[FredWolfe]

I ventured to the DUmmie board to see their opinion on the matter and they're fuming at hillary's comments! Those DUmmies are actually rooting for the insurgents, and they wonder why America hates them...

[Buzwardo]

DU nitwits aren't smart enough to understand it's all an electoral posture on Hillary's part. The Clinton's contempt for the military precede them, and will reemerge the instant the current posture is deemed to have no further utility.

[Rome2000]

PEACE IS NOT AN OPTION

Amin Al Husseini seen inspecting his Hanzar Division made up exclusively of Muslims, mostly from the Crotia/Bosnia/Serbia region. They actively lead the genocide against Serbs, Serbian Jews and Gypsies.

Amin Al Husseini meets with Adolf Hitler in November 1942, weeks before the decision to implement the Final Solution which sent Europe's Jews to the gas chamber. The Third Reich provided Amin Al Husseini with a salary and appointed him Head of the Hanzar SS Division. The Hanzar Division was made of Nazi Muslims and implemented the genocide of 250,000 Serbs, Gypsies and Jews during WWII.

Amin Al Husseini shown here on a Nazi poster recruiting fellow Muslims to join Hitler in the fight against the West and the Jews. His disciples today include Yasser Arafat, Saddam Hussein and the leaders of Hamas, Al Qeida and Islamic Jihad.

Amin Al Husseini, future President of the World Islamic Congress (1961) and founding father of the Arab League (1944) inspects his Muslim Nazi troops, the Hanzar Division. Amin Al Husseini making the traditional nazi salute.

Yasser Arafat became a disciple of Amin Al Husseini since the age of 17. Here: recent picture of Palestinian soldiers under the leadership of Arafat making the traditional Nazi salute.

WWII . Amin Al Husseini spent most of the war in Berlin. He was on Hitler's payroll as he lead the Hanzar Division of Muslim SS and played a lead-role in determining the fate of Europe's Jewish community.. From Berlin, Amin Al Husseini helped organize the transfer of Nazi officers into the Middle East

Amin Al Husseini inspecting his Nazi troops, the Hanzar. Here, he is showing a young Muslim recruit how to use his rifle. Amin Al Husseini himself had been an officer in the defeated Ottoman Islamic Empire of World War I.<