General: Iraq at its quietest since '04

AP on Yahoo ^ | 12/16/07 | Patrick Quinn - ap

[NormsRevenge]

T'was the last fews days before Christmas

and all thru the House

and the Senate too

Dhimmi Heads was exploding

with the latest news

[NormsRevenge]

British soldiers take position before the start of the handover ceremony outside the airport in Basra, Iraq's second-largest city, 550 kilometers (340 miles) southeast of Baghdad, Sunday Dec. 16, 2007. British forces formally handed over responsibility Sunday for the last region in Iraq under their control, marking the start of what Britain hopes will be a transition to a mission aimed at aiding the economy and providing jobs in an oil-rich region beset by militia infighting. (AP Photo/ Nabil al-Jurani)

[NormsRevenge]

Iraqi soldiers drive tanks during a handover ceremony in Basra, south of Baghdad, December 16, 2007. (Atef Hassan/Reuters)

[NormsRevenge]

I'd think twice too, MuQQty..

The radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr delivers a sermon, in a Mosque, in Kufa, 160 kilometers (100 miles) south of Baghdad, Iraq, in this Friday Sept. 22, 2006, file photo. Britain's Saturday, Dec. 15, 2007, handover of Basra province will have a limited effect on security in Iraq's biggest oil region because rival Shiite warlords and local officials have been wielding the real power in the area. The main players in Basra and southern Iraq are the powerful Shiite entities, al-Sadr and his Mahdi Army militia; Abdul-Aziz al-Hakim, leader of the largest Shiite political party and the Badr Brigade militia, which has largely been absorbed into the Iraqi security forces; and the Fadhila party, which also has its own fighters and a member as Basra's governor. (AP Photo/Alaa Al-Marjani)

[NormsRevenge]

Care for another shot, Senator?

Ol' Quagmire .. an old Kennedy family favorite spirit.

[Allegra]

Iraq is boring.

I think I'll go home for a couple of weeks where I can get some excitement.

Well done, troops.

[NormsRevenge]

Generals Petraeus and Odierno.. . Thet're all a bunch of liars, of course.
I am firm in my stand on that.

Democratic presidential hopeful, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., talks with supporters after speaking at a campaign stop Sunday, Dec. 16, 2007 in Council Bluffs, Iowa. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green)

[NormsRevenge]

Oops, here's one more with Huma at her side, naturally..

Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y.,
talks with supporters after she speaks at a campaign stop
Sunday, Dec. 16, 2007, in Council Bluffs, Iowa.
At right, Clinton campaign manager Patti Solis Doyle. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green)

[NormsRevenge]

Well done, indeed.

Thanks to all those who have sacrificed so much and to their families.

[preacher]

Will the “insurgents” stage an offensive attack a few weeks before our presidential election next year?

[NormsRevenge]

expect the media too.. at least. same difference, I reckun.

[NormsRevenge]

Here's to the new Sheriff in town and to a Give 'em Hell approach for those who would continue their attacks on the people of a sovereign Iraq.

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Iraqi police march during a parade at a handover ceremony in Basra, south of Baghdad, December 16, 2007. Britain handed over security in Basra province to Iraqi forces on Sunday, effectively marking the end of nearly five years of British control of southern Iraq. (Atef Hassan/Reuters)

[hinckley buzzard]

Oops, here's one more with Huma at her side, naturally

Those pictures of Huma hovering ever in the backround are getting downright spooky. I wonder when the rest of the world will begin to notice?

[Jeff Chandler]

Every time NormsRevenge posts good news out of Iraq, a baby Democrat cries.

[Jeff Chandler]

"...Officials are warning that the public should take great care not to make direct eye contact with the zombies."

[Southack]

So has Hillary been repeating her “willing suspension of disbelief” line lately?!

Nice to see Iraqi regulars manning tanks again. Helicopters coming up next, I presume.

[freema]

murtha was hung
by the chimney with care
in hopes that St. Pelosi
soon would be there

the children were nestled
all snug in their beds
while visions of peace
danced in their heads

[Prince Caspian]

Man, the expression in those eyes tells me everything I need to know. And I guess that old saying about “birds of a feather...” is true, too.

[jveritas]

Amen to VICTORY.

[purpleraine]

Harry Reid must be on vacation.