Things are definitely bleak now. Both politically for conservatives/gop and for American in a broader sense.
To me it is just fundamentally close to impossible to fight an enemy who is willing to blow themselves up and without caring who gets in the way just to kill an American soldier. Who cares if there is mother with her kids standing next to the American. There seems to be an unending supply of these jihadist/terrorists there.
As for next years election, i’m assuming things will be different in Iraq by then but it will be hard to distance yourself from this administration.
An all around depressing situation.
I agree, when they can produce people who are willig to blow themselves up by the thousands it is a no win situation. My fear is that soon this will start happening in America.
I am angered that we are sending our best and brightest to die in Iraq while welcoming hordes of undesirables to our country.
Sorry, but W has lost my support on just about everything he has done. He is too PC and wishy washy on America.
Changing the world / ME is an extremely difficult task....But one that had to happen. Thank God for the leadership and resolve of CinC GWB.
Leadership and resolve doesn't guarantee everything goes perfectly.......but it means understanding the stakes and having the fortitude to hold the line while constantly looking to advance during trying times in order to move closer to your objectives...
Could ya all quit with the things are bleak and depressing...and the nation is going to hell in a hand basket posts? This is exactly what the U.S. media feeds us every day.
This nation WOULD NEVER HAVE SURVIVED WW II with our current media and loser Democrat politicians. During WW II we lost 300 soldiers on average EVERY SINGLE DAY of the war. We lost 3,000 at Tarawa in 72 hours; we lost 8,000 at Iwo Jima. WE ARE LOSING LESS THAN 3 PER DAY ON AVERAGE IN IRAQ. Please keep some perspective.
Here read this:
Gunmen kill Al-Qaeda leader in Fallujah
AFP ^ | June 2 2007
Posted on 06/02/2007 5:45:11 AM PDT by ASC2006
BAGHDAD (AFP) - Unidentified gunmen shot dead the Al-Qaeda militant group’s leader in the western Iraq city of Fallujah on Saturday, police said, as fighting between rival Sunni factions continued.
Colonel Tareq al-Dulaimi, a senior police intelligence officer with close ties to Anbar Province’s pro-US tribal coalition, confirmed reports that Muwaffaq al-Jugheifi had been killed but did not identify the attackers.
Dulaimi described the slain Al-Qaeda leader as an Iraqi from Fallujah.
A police capitain, speaking on condition of anonymity, said: “Militants riding in two civilian cars opened fire on al-Jugheifi and his group on Saturday morning as they left the Abu Ayyub al-Ansari mosque.”
Fallujah is currently at the centre of a large-scale security operation in which Iraqi police and tribal levies, backed by US forces, are attempting to drive Al-Qaeda’s Islamist militants out of the town.
Saturday’s killing came after the Anbar Salvation Council, the armed wing of the province’s tribal coalition, announced that it was sending plainclothes “secret police” to Baghdad to kill Al-Qaeda leaders.
The council, whose fighters included thousands of former insurgents, has fallen out with Al-Qaeda and thrown its lot in with US forces. It has sent gunmen to join the Iraqi police and pro-US tribal levies.
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It's safer for an American to live in Baghdad than it is to live in Philadelphia. Texas is no exception.