A Message to All the Cut and Run Freepers Currently Polluting Free Republic

Friday, November 24, 2006 | Kristinn

[oceanview]

I hope Bush pulls no punches at his meetings with Maliki.

[MaineVoter2002]

Partitioning Iraq would make things worse, unfortunately.

[ohioWfan]

That is good news. Showing some real leadership.

I'm sure President Bush will 'push' him along this week.

I'm still VERY optimistic about the future of Iraq.

Thanks for the link.

[jan in Colorado]

I wanted to send them all a white chicken feather but I don't have that many white hens!

LOL! Spare the poor chickens, Fred.

[FreeReign]

the first job of any democracy - is security. if it can't secure itself, it can't sustain itself.

Sure there are problems.

But what is better to have than democracy as you try to sustain it against the disruptors?

(Especially, when most in the country want it)

[ohioWfan]

Will this help? :)

[BigSkyFreeper]

Partitioning Iraq would make things worse, unfortunately.

Of course it will. Partitioning Iraq will only have partitioned the people, but it wouldn't get rid of the turf war mentality of the mixture of the varying ideologies that exists there now. Iraq as it exists is a microcosm of the entire Middle East, which has been at war with itself constantly for ages.

[oceanview]

it would have been better (with 20/20 hindsight) to have had a longer period of time under US control, recalling the iraqi army under tight US supervision to form the nucleus of the security force there, and then have had elections.

[jan in Colorado]

ROTFLOL

You two have me laughing...thanks...I needed it more than you know.

[ohioWfan]

You thought the Iraqi security forces would be ready in 9 - 12 months?

Wow. You are part of a microwave world, aren't you? No wonder the American people are upset, if they all want instant mashed potatoes here like you do.

This is real life, oceanview. You don't overthrow a brutal dictator after decades of oppression and have it all solved in a year.

[MaineVoter2002]

it would have been better to kill those like Al-Sadr, go into mosques when the enemy is shooting us from them and kill the terrorists instead of going about it in a politically correct way

[ohioWfan]

Glad to be of service, jan. :)

(Some of the comments on this thread are enough to make any decent person depressed. Laughter is good medicine to fight the diseases running rampant on FR these days.....)

[budwiesest]

Could someone explain how the world's most powerful military could come to a country, topple a dictator/tyrant, and not have the people throwing rose petals at the feet of our troops for having done so (and in record time, I might add)?

Let me explain how this happened. First, the short answer is: we just liberated a bunch of democrats. How, you ask? Well, the answer lies in a simple comparison. First, they both 'worship' power over the people, one divine, the other not-so-divine (our courts). Secondly, they both get a pass when behaving inhumanely (headcutting, abortion, etc.) by the media, but go batsh*t berserk when a conservative text-messages a page. As masters in the art of the double-standard, they expect as much.

Comparisons between the worship of Allah and the worship of FDR may be countless, feel free to come up with your own. I for one, always enjoy the 1st of the year, when all the new 'laws' that were signed by my 'freedom-loving-state government' go into effect, such that I may be assured our liberties are protected and will be unassailed into the future, for generations to enjoy.[/projectile spew]

Freedom is not the 'natural' state of man, but instead it is some form of tyranny. I find it odd indeed, to think a people who've never know it might suddenly wake-up, and embrace it.

[rfp1234]

-- If we find ourselves in 2008 - debating the same issues, taking 80 KIA every month, listening to Abizaid pontificate, negotiating with Maliki, daily stories of car bombings and militia killings - the Dems are going to win in a blowout in 2008.--

Maliki has got to go. He is becoming too dependent on Mookie. Bring back Allawi (he looks a bit like Tony Soprano, acts like him too...).

[FreeReign]

...go into mosques when the enemy is shooting us from them and kill the terrorists instead of going about it in a politically correct way

Who says we can't go into Mosques?

[BigSkyFreeper]

it would have been better (with 20/20 hindsight) to have had a longer period of time under US control, recalling the iraqi army under tight US supervision to form the nucleus of the security force there, and then have had elections.

Political correctness in the approach to the GWOT as a whole is what is making things tougher both in Iraq and everywhere terrorism exists. The media's penchant to excentuate the positives and accentuate the negatives aren't doing any good either.

[MaineVoter2002]

Let's hope it's real this time.

Been there, done that

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1719621/posts

[I see my hands]

"At least read on to see the situation we've put the Iraqi Christians into."

The vilest and most repulsive of the many faces of insanity that have shown themselves since 9-11 is the blame America propagandist.

I get frigging irate.

[BigSkyFreeper]

I will also add, Blair whining about Saddam's death by hanging sentence didn't sit well with me either. Saddam's victims never had it so easy.

[MaineVoter2002]

Here's what we're dealing with:

No pursuit into mosques without Iraqi troops.

Loudspeakers in mosques permitted to broadcast prayers for the defeat of America.