Fighting Terrorists Prevents Attacks on U.S., General Says

American Forces Press Service ^ | Dec 8, 2005 | Gerry Gilmore

[SandRat]

WASHINGTON, Dec. 8, 2005 – By combating terrorists in Iraq, the U.S. military is helping to prevent another terror attack on American soil, a senior U.S. military officer told reporters at a Baghdad news conference today. Army Maj. Gen. Rick Lynch pointed to today's terrorist bombing of a passenger bus in Baghdad that killed almost 30 Iraqis as a key rationale for American forces to be in Iraq. Lynch is a spokesman for Multinational Force Iraq.

"Think about what happened today," Lynch said, noting that innocent civilians, including children, were on that bus when the suicide bomber detonated the bomb.

"We want to defeat the terrorists here in Iraq," Lynch said, "so similar events don't happen in London, in Washington, back in our hometowns."

Lynch provided an update on current Iraq military operations with a week remaining until Dec. 15 voting to select new Iraq national assembly members.

"We believe our operations continue to isolate the insurgents," Lynch said, "and we'll continue to focus these operations to defeat the terrorists and foreign fighters and to disrupt the insurgency."

Foreign terrorists, who conduct 95 percent of the suicide bomb attacks in Iraq, have been ejected from the western Euphrates River Valley, Lynch said, as the result of recent combined military operations featuring U.S., coalition and Iraqi forces.

"We found that the terrorists and foreign fighters, when attacked, tend to run away if they weren't killed or captured," Lynch said, noting some terrorists escaped over the border into Syria.

Now those displaced foreign fighters and other terrorists have shifted their operations to the center of Iraq, Lynch said. That's why, he said, anti-terrorist operations continue in the Ramadi and Fallujah areas.

In fact, six separate offensives have been conducted against insurgents in the Ramadi area over the past two weeks, Lynch said. Nearly 80 suspected terrorists were detained during those operations, Lynch said, and 28 improvised explosive devices and 20 weapons caches were discovered.

Terrorists had intimidated the people in the Ramadi area not to participate in the Oct. 15 constitutional referendum, Lynch said. Those terrorists, he said, are now in jail.

"The objective is an environment on the 15th of December so the people of Ramadi participate in the election," Lynch said, "and be part of voting for a new Iraq."

[SandRat]

Keeping the Homefront Safe

[AirBorn]

With December 7th's Anniversary just past--

That day itself should have been a great reminder that
APPEASEMENT never works with those who you know are your enemies!

The Japanese Ambassador was right there in the White House THAT DAY telling our " Diplomats " that, " We have no intention of attacking the U.S. . "

When after the attack we answered from a position of using STRENGTH instead of debating--using the MILITARY instead of the United Nations's permission slip--using bombs and bullets instead of words, our enemies Germany and Japan then KNEW we were serious!

That was a Plan for action then, and should always be the plan of action now and in the future.

Remember Pearl Harbor, Remember 9/11 !

And Remember what that other Rockerfeller from the 1940's had wanted the U.S. to do THEN! and then look at the Rockerfeller and democrat party of today.

Darth AirBorne

[brownsfan]

This is easy to see for anyone with a brain.
Maybe that's why the far left doesn't get it?

[Retain Mike]

Currently Americans sacrifice their lives at 1/20 the rate of our last three major wars. Such diminutive cost for the major conflict facing this generation should not continue, if dissenters achieve their objectives to soothe this nation into complacency, and to abandon Iraq’s sacrificing for representative government as the major force to defeat Wahhabi jihadism.



Americans in Iraq predicate the primary purpose of the U.N. by enforcing historic relevance for Article 1, which enjoins the U.N. to maintain international peace and security through collective measures to remove threats and suppress aggression. The Coalition executed resolution 678 to expel Hussein from Kuwait. When Hussein refused to renounce international terrorism and account for his WMD’s, the Coalition executed resolutions 687 and 1441 to remove his regime. Next David Kay discovered a gathering threat for terrorism and WMD’s. The NY times reported Mahdi Obeid, head of Iraq’s nuclear centrifuge program, said the nuclear weapons program could be restarted whenever Hussein desired.



Americans in Iraq serve vital national interests by prosecuting president Clinton’s “Iraq Liberation Act of 1998” to remove Hussein and promote emergence of a democratic government in Iraq. Iraqis have now achieved an interim government, elected government, and constitutional referendum on schedule. Over 200,000 Iraqi volunteers serve in security and defense units.



Americans in Iraq serve on the central battlefield against al Qaida and terrorism according to Ayman al Zawahiri. His victory begins with Iraq to impose the Wahhabi/Salafi heresy through dictatorial tribal elites on all Muslim countries. Then the tragedy of 9/11 would be dwarfed by the catastrophes possible from supportive national environments.

[E.G.C.]

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