Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

Disaster by timetable: How US could lose Iraq peace
NY Post ^ | February 22, 2010 | ARTHUR HERMAN

Posted on 02/22/2010 4:22:10 AM PST by Scanian

It's a bizarre sight watching Vice President Joe Biden and President Obama trying to grab the credit for American success in the war in Iraq -- a war of which both were outspoken critics. It's a little like someone who's been throwing rocks at a drowning man, demanding a lifesaving medal when the man manages to swim to shore.

But now the crucial issue isn't the credit for winning the war. It's whether Obama is up to winning the peace. Simply rechristening the operations in Iraq from Iraqi Freedom to New Dawn, as Obama did this last week, won't cut it.

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: biden; deadline; obama; troopwithdrawal

1 posted on 02/22/2010 4:22:10 AM PST by Scanian
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | View Replies]

To: Scanian

“New Dawn”...good grief. Avoid freedom at all costs. Use term that sounds Marxist/Islamist. Yeah, that’s the secret.


2 posted on 02/22/2010 4:37:35 AM PST by livius
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: livius

“New Dawn”? I guess “Shining Path” was taken?


3 posted on 02/22/2010 4:38:47 AM PST by Tallguy ("The sh- t's chess, it ain't checkers!" -- Alonzo (Denzel Washington) in "Training Day")
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies]

To: Scanian

When things start going to Hell after we are gone due to a precipitous pull out, I doubt the MSM will hold Obama accountable!!


4 posted on 02/22/2010 5:01:52 AM PST by Laserman
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Laserman

“When things start going to Hell after we are gone due to a precipitous pull out, I doubt the MSM will hold Obama accountable!!”

You sire are %100 correct!

I can see the headlines now.

Bush failure finally coems to light.
The war that should never have been.
Bush’s folly.
Obama tried to save Iraq but Bush screwed it up too much.

On and on and on


5 posted on 02/22/2010 6:15:57 AM PST by Syntyr (Mace, Kirk, Thomson, Griffin, Scusa, Martin, Gallegos, Hart - Remember the fallen of Kamdesh)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 4 | View Replies]

To: Scanian

Biden’s assertion claiming Iraq as a success for Obama has the huge potentiality to backfire if the Sunnis boycott the vote (they are STOOPID) again. The first time they did it, they got stuck outside with no power. Then they smartened up and participated and got some measure of power back. Now, it’s their call.

The Shias haven’t run Baghdad for a 1000 years. Now they do.

And if Iraq spirals downward, Biden’s statement will come back to haunt these bozos.


6 posted on 02/22/2010 11:20:46 AM PST by swarthyguy (-Pillgarlick-)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: livius

Unfortunately, the title Obozo picked has it’s diaboloical roots in the Book of Genesis;

Simply rechristening the operations in Iraq from Iraqi Freedom to New Dawn, as Obama did this last week, won’t cut...

I am the bright and morningstar;


7 posted on 02/22/2010 11:38:20 AM PST by STD (Islam's the Trojan Horse of Satan)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies]

To: Tallguy
I guess “Shining Path” was taken?

LOL!

8 posted on 02/22/2010 11:41:24 AM PST by livius
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 3 | View Replies]

To: livius
In order to understand why Obama has suddenly changed the name of Operation Iraqi Freedom to Operation 'New Dawn', we must trace the meaning of this new title to it's original source.

I must digress to tell you a fascinating news item,

Remember, back in 2008 an Israeli Rabbe translated Luke 18:10 into Hebrew, he discovered that Jesus could very well be warning us about candidate Barack Hussien Obama.

In Luke 18:10, was Jesus really a making a reference to Barack Hussien Obama;

And he said unto them, I beheld Satan as lightning fall from heaven.

or, Jesus said unto them, Barack Hussien Obama is satan

Herein also lies the reason for the Name change to Operation New Dawn, from the Book of Isaiah 14;12 and following;

(12) How you have fallen from heaven, O morning star, son of the dawn! [KJV-“Lucifer” [1]]

You have been cast down to the earth, you who once laid low the nations!

(13) You said in your heart, “I will ascend to heaven; I will raise my throne above the stars of God; I will sit enthroned on the mount of assembly, on the utmost heights of the sacred mountain.

(14) I will ascend above the tops of the clouds; I will make myself like the Most High.”

(15) But you are brought down to the grave, to the depths of the pit.

(16) Those who see you stare at you, they ponder your fate; “Is this the man who shook the earth and made kingdoms tremble,

(17) The man who made the world a desert, who overthrew its cities and would not let his captives go home?”

The announcement that Operation Iraqi Freedom has been renamed Operation New Dawn is nothing more than Obama's official confirmation and declaration of war against all mankind made by no less than the Prince of Darkness himself.

In another verse of scripture, it is said that 'by their deeds, you shall know them'

Look out, look-up America for your redemption draws near'.

Barack Hussien Obama has finally come into his very own.

9 posted on 02/22/2010 12:47:24 PM PST by STD (Islam's the Trojan Horse of Satan)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies]

To: STD

Well, it certainly wouldn’t surprise me. Incidentally, I seem to recall that Saddam Hussein was fond of referring to the “dawn,” too, and I think Ahmadinejad also likes to refer to it. Perhaps it has some meaning in Islam (which is a diabolical religion that perverts the Judaism and Christianity to which its scriptures refer).


10 posted on 02/22/2010 1:29:57 PM PST by livius
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 9 | View Replies]

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson