Your post necessitated a picture! :o)
Posted on 06/27/2004 10:50:49 PM PDT by Southack
Edited on 06/27/2004 11:30:47 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
Update:
IRAQ HANDOVER 'TODAY'
The handover of power in Iraq is to be brought forward to today.
A formal announcement will be made later today, Tony Blair said.
The informal announcement was made by Iraq's foreign minister Hoshyar Zebari.
The handover of power to an interim Iraqi government was supposed to take place on June 30.
Mr Zebari said the deteriorating security situation in the country was one of the reasons why the date had been brought forward.
"We will challenge these elements in Iraq, the anti-democratic elements, by even bringing the handover of sovereignty before June 30 as a sign we are ready for it," he said.
He added: "We have made some very good progress in terms of the new security council (in Iraq) and the return of sovereignty to the Iraqi people to take away the level of occupation we have suffered a great deal from.
"There are many Iraqis who are standing up to the challenge. We are here to seek more help and assistance, training and equipment."
LOL, another topic to keep Kerry off the news.
Your post necessitated a picture! :o)
Today could also be the day we hear news of a new gov't in Canada. Conservative Party is leading in the polls going into today's election.
Oh, yeah, they do.
Last month, we were sitting outside on camp one evening and tracers began going up all over the sky, followed by machine gun fire that ringed the whole perimeter. We thought we were under attack, but were somewhat nonplused as this sort of thing had happened before and the good folks in the military had quelled it without any problems.
The next day we found out that it was because the Iraq national soccer team had won an upset victory getting them closer to qualifiying for the Olympics and they were celebrating. We all thought that was hilarious when we found out.
By the way, if I decide to do another year here, I plan on coming "down under" for one of my R&R trips.
Wonderful post, AP!
I saw/heard Bill Sammon on C-Span yesterday say that the troops loved Bush....said Bush got the rock star treatment w/them!
I think we will have a VERY interesting summer.
Oh...something BIG will be on Fox within the hour, but they can't tell us yet what!!!
Lord, I NEVER tired of seeing these pics!
and Rush returns today.......
By the way, did Fox get the scoop, any regular channels show up at the 1 o'clock briefing?
Sounds like Alawi will be speaking. . . I wonder if he will have a SPECIAL GUEST? :oD
Dare we guess what that surprise is.....hehehe
Just through the MWR Center.
We're all pretty excited about today's developments. It certainly caught all of us by surprise.
Thanks for the prayers...and the care package...and the support...and for being you. :-)
What?? You mean I STILL can't go to bed?
Heads Up Alert
Steve Doucey on Fox and Friends just said that 'something big' is coming up in 30 minutes (about 6:00 a.m. CDT).
He didn't say what, but said they would 'broadcast' it (related to the Iraq sovereignty hand over).
There is another word coined by W that I would like to see become official - "suicider"
It combines the concept of suicide/homicide bomber, and is one single word. For all that the media make their living using words, they have a deficit in their brain to recognize that President Bush can communicate well.
At least, other world leaders in such gatherings as G8, NATO, EU summits, New Europe countries, etc, seem to get the picture when he presents it.
Me neither! :o)
You guys haven't gone to bed yet??? It is 6:30 in the morning EST.
And we can't WAIT to see how they handle that. I've seen personally some of the evil that man has done.
I hope I remain in Iraq long enough to be here when Saddam gets what he has coming.
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