You can go away now ... I'm tired of you.
Posted on 10/28/2008 8:16:30 AM PDT by WilliamReading
BAGHDAD (Reuters) – Iraq's government denounced on Tuesday a U.S. air strike on a Syrian border village in an unexpected rebuke of Washington.
"The Iraqi government rejects U.S. aircraft bombarding posts inside Syria. The constitution does not allow Iraq to be used as a staging ground to attack neighboring countries," spokesman Ali al-Dabbagh said.
Dabbagh said Iraq had opened an investigation into the incident and urged U.S. forces not to repeat it. But he also called for a halt to what he described as insurgent activity inside Syria.
Dabbagh's comments came a day after Syria's Foreign Minister Walid al-Moualem angrily denounced Iraq's initial description of the raid as targeting insurgents across the border. He said the attack killed eight civilians.
The criticism of the United States was announced after a cabinet meeting to discuss a security pact to allow U.S. forces to stay in Iraq.
The pact has so far been blocked mainly by Shi'ite political parties, and one of their main complaints has been that the accord might allow U.S. troops to use Iraq as a base to attack neighboring countries.
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The muslim world cannot be compared to the Japanese and Germans. The latter, as bad as they were, were industrious, productive, and resourceful people who after they were defeated, saw a benefit to working with those that defeated them in order to forge a better future for their countries. They were motivated by extreme nationalism and actually cared about the prosperity of their people. Even Hitler did, as evil as he was. The Germans and Japanese were never third world people unless you go back so far that we all were. There is a reason that some societies are advanced and some are not. It is for the same reasons that some people are strong and successful and others are not.
We all WANT the same things. We all do not have the willingness or desire to do what it takes to get those things. We all want to be rich, but we don’t all have the willingness or desire to do what it takes to be rich. We all want to be healthy, yet some still smoke, drink, take drugs, etc. Societies do not spring up and become the way they are randomly. There are reasons that the muslim world is the what it is and there is nothing we can do to change it. The best we can do is defend ourselves against them.
Oh, pshaw. The truth on the ground in Iraq proves you wrong. Nation-building is working there.
You’re so full of Sh*t and you’re the perfect example of why the Republican party is as pathetic as it is right now. Now that I have voted for NONE OF THE ABOVE for President, I am changing my affiliation to independent until the Republican party can reform itself and weed out people exactly like you. Until it does, the party will continue to get spanked in election after election and be the party with no power at all. Have fun knowing that you and your ilk ruined it to its core and it is now rotting and stinking to high heaven.
The best thing to happen to an alcoholic is to hit rock bottom. Republican party.....hope you enjoy rock bottom. It’s going to hurt! It’s going to leave a mark! Hopefully, there won’t be too many undeserving casualties taken down in the process.
“Nation-building is working there.”
At what benefit to us and at what cost? Has it been worth it really? Wait until the day that we have to strike Iran or some other country in the region and Iraq denies us their airspace. The day will come, I have no doubt. Wait until Iraq is as Anti-American as Iran and Syria are and are voting against us in the UN. This may take 20 years or so to come to fruition but it will. Mark my word....it will. I refuse to engage in such willful blindness. I have recently been very encouraged by the dramatic decrease in attacks in Iraq, but that country being a long term, strong ally of ours in the event of a conflict in the region between us and another muslim nation I will believe when pigs fly.
LOL!!!!
Oh, my. You can't be bothered with facts, apparently, and you clearly can't be bothered to behave like an adult.
Well, little miss, I'm happy to ignore you from here on out.
“Oh, my. You can’t be bothered with facts, apparently, and you clearly can’t be bothered to behave like an adult.”
You don’t use facts. It takes a special kind of willful blindness to rationalize Iraq’s public ondemnation of us after all the good people we have lost trying to help them make something decent out of their God forsaken hellhole. It takes a special kind of willful ignorance to rationalize them siding with Syria when we could have simply used our military power to do what militaries are intended for and just punish them over and over again until they meet our demands. we have lost a lot of good men. Many of them have left behind children. There is an untold amount of pain and suffering that has been inflicted for our nation building efforts for that country.
You are no patriot if you can rationalize this and I don’t care who you say you are on this anonymous board. Anybody that can rationalize this in the face of all the good Americans we have lost in this war is nothing more than a pure partisan out for the power that comes along with their political party winning. You put those muslims ahead of your own fellow Americans who have given their lives for that sickening country and all for partisan politics.
You can go away now ... I'm tired of you.
Agree.
Nope -- it's just the difference between what a diplomat (or his spokesman) says, and what he really means.
Not quite. What the diplomat said was not secret, was not covert, and was not whispered behind closed doors to appease an opponent.
It was broadcast to all the Iraqi people and the world. This went far beyond simple political diplomacy, and into headlines for all, including the Iraqi people to see.
Whatever you say
“You can go away now ... I’m tired of you.”
Until I get banned here for expressing views that go against the group-think crowd, I’ll come here whenever I darned well please. In the same way that I’ll donate money to FR whenever I darned well please just as I gave 4 donations last quarter and none this quarter because every time I’ve come here this quarter, I’ve ran into far too many people like you. I refuse to give one dime to a place infested with RINOS.
No true conservative would be a wimp in regard to our great country being publicly humiliated in front of the world by a little, backasswards muslim country like Iraq. Especially not one that we’ve sacrificed so many good men and women for trying to help. Would just a little bit of gratitude and support be too much to ask for from the very people we are fighting for? If so, then what does that say about them if their leaders have to save face and prevent uprisings by condemning us?
LOL!! Well done. :)
“saw a benefit to working with those that defeated them in order to forge a better future for their countries”
Heh. I bet you were pretty disappointed when the Iraqi Sunnis turned against al-Qaeda’s extremism and allied with the coalition forces. Or how about when Maliki used his army forces to crush al-Sadr’s militias? You folks that are still rallying against Operation Iraqi Freedom have become boring and tiresome. Especially since you have already been proven wrong by the Iraqis.
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