Posted on 06/16/2006 7:48:00 AM PDT by pabianice
If a foreign army invaded your country would you resist?
After all, we can't have chrissy matthews head exploding on national TV, even it is only for about 100 viewers.
I'm confident we'll find out that the alleged action in Haditha is a LIE. And the good thing is that it will be the end of that whining old fool Murtha.
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"The latest government proposal is to give amnesty to most of the Sunni Arabs who have just killed foreigners (mainly Americans)."
I don't think at this rate there will be many in this category. We seem to be taking out the trash by the dumpster load. If we keep up the number of raids as we develop even more leads, there won't be any killers left negotiating their amnesty deals.
There was speculation on a local morning show whether Murtha would be able to come up with the names of his senior Marine sources when he's called to testify in the case. Methinks he will be a tad uncomfortable sitting in the witness stand.
You make the assumption that this would actually happen if they amnesty thousands of killers, just because they happened to kill non-iraqis. I say this would be an extraordinarily stupid, bonehead move. They are winning. The last thing they need to do is to show weakness by pardoning killers. Remember, even if you are NOT weak, if the arab mind PERCEIVES weakness, it might as well be the same thing. At your feet or at your throat.
Oh, and speaking of throats, they might be able to jam this down OURS, but they'd be sorry. The president would lose face, it would be increasingly difficult to garner support in Congress, the left would have a field day, and they just might find themselves vietnamized -- victorious in the field followed by cut-off funding and a precipitous withdrawal of American force leading to a renewal of chaos, both in and out of the Iraqi military. It could wind them right back up where they started, so I think they better think twice about whether it's a worthwhile gamble to pander to baathists and terrorists at this time in their history.
According to an op-ed in TODAY'S NY Slimes,
"Violence on the whole is as bad as ever. Sectarian strife is worse than ever. The economy has slowly come back to prewar levels for the most part, but is now treading water. As a result, optimism has waned. According to an International Republican Institute poll conducted in late March, more than 75 percent of Iraqis consider the security environment to be poor and the economy poor or mediocre."
See http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/16/opinion/16ohanlon.html
So the MSM just keep plugging away.
I admit that this is confusing. It might be a goal to somehow incite a war between Iran and the United States. If anything, it seems that it would solidify ties between Iran and Al Qaeda, with both sides trying their best to cause massive U.S. casualties.
They will be out soon.
I want to know why intellegence allows this news to be "outed" before they can get the most good out of it.
I mean, they let them know its time to bug out.
Calling the following willing accomplices: Mass. Senator John F. Zar-Kerry; Pa. Congresscritter John al-Murtha; al Jazeera; al-gore et al
"Violence on the whole is as bad as ever. Sectarian strife is worse than ever. The economy has slowly come back to prewar levels for the most part, but is now treading water. As a result, optimism has waned. According to sources in the Times' newsroom, more than 75 percent of the reporters consider the environment to be poor and the future of the paper worse..."
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I wonder what the US and allied occupation forces did with all the captured Nazi soldiers that killed allies during WWII? I'm not talking about leadership here just the average guy that used a gun.
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