Posted on 08/07/2007 10:30:12 AM PDT by blam
Calling all Dhimmicratic presidential candidates! Hello? Hello? What is your response to this? Why won’t this happen when we pull out? Obama? Edwards? Kookcinich? Anyone?
“the intelligence official told the Washington Post.”
Wow - I wonder who this amazing intelligence official is. He seems to make up plenty of bollocks which 99% of the time never seem to be true.
Yawn
The Brits pulled back from Basra a long time ago. Any violence isn’t because of the present handover, it’s just a continuation of what began when they pulled back after their raid on the police station. The milita run the police in Basra. Maybe the Iraqi Army will be able to help with that. Who knows.
Urm...if we pulled back then why exactly are our troop still being killed? Including the death only yesterday of a British soldier? The news on the same day of our guys taking out an insurgent leader?
Are the media reporting on our guys playing computer games? I don’t think so. We’re still in the fight - and at some cost.
I wonder what cliche would be a fitting response to this? lol
Tom Ricks BS, for the most part.
Unless he has something to hide, is a liar or just a made up figure, why aren’t we learning the name of the “senior US intelligence official in Baghdad”?
I would put my money on super duper decoder ring goof Larry Johnson as the source. The guy that all the liberal media likes to go to as their source on all things military and intelligence, EVEN THOUGH HE ONLY SPENT 4 YEARS AT THE CIA.
Someone needs to find this “intelligence official” and hand over to Al Qaeda for his first (and final) starring role in a beheading video.
Even its true, you don’t treat an ally this way. And I doubt its true.
So does that mean if no source is mentioned that it’s not happening?
I’m tired of this traitor BS.
Does that mean if it is you blab it to the press with no clue of separating allies?
This was put out to separate... nothing more.
OK, but is it happening? Did the Brits blow it? Is Basra slipping into more disorder because of their withdrawal of forces?
The Pollyannas and Panglosses here only want to hear “good news.”
To some yes. But even if a source WAS mentioned, it would just open up other means of explaining away bad news. “Oh his brother’s half sister’s next door neighbor voted for Cater in the 1980 election - he’s biased - discount his information.”
Well, the Brits have spent a lot of time in that part of Iraq. If the situation is going south, I, for one, would like to know about it. Good or ill.
And you only want to post bad news. Who's sillier?
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