I’ll Party When You’re Gone, You Rascal You
An exhausted Iraqi President Jalal Talabani fell ill on Sunday at the end of another day of mayhem in strife-torn Baghdad that saw at least 40 people die in a suicide attack.
The 74-year-old president flew to Jordan from the northern Iraqi city of Sulaimaniyah for medical tests after he was overcome by the unrelenting pressure of recent work, his office said.”
GOOD! Now if the son of a bitch will just DIE, maybe something can get done in Iraq, one way or another. This lying, manipulating bastard is working for the Iranians and getting in the way every possible chance when it comes to keeping the Iranians out of the picture and the Shiites from torturing and murdering Sunnis. What is it with old men that the older and less competent and nastier they get, the harder they hang on to the reins of power and just make things worse for everybody? You’d think that they’d want to bring some peace into the world instead of increasing everyones misery except theirs. It’s as if, knowing that they don’t have much longer to live, they want to take the world down with them.
My hope is that if Dickhead croaks, the civil war will erupt so violently that Bush will have no choice but to pull out and let them go at it. Then perhaps we can concentrate on getting Osama once again and clearing up the Afghan/Taliban problem. Al Qaeda, on the ropes just a little while back, is now resurging big time, all because we’ve been ineffective at whacking their top leaders.
It’s WAR. We need to act like it. Complacency is one of our worst enemies.
February 27th, 2007 at 1:43 am
rasta, many of the military themselves actually want to stay there…want to stop having their right hands tied behind their backs and want to kick @$$ …the problem is, they are so limited by idiotic ROE’s that they’re scared to set a foot out of place…they could have had things up and running a long time ago, and actually they have done a huge amount of good if you check out chrenkoff (who isn’t posting any more but whose enlightened blog still exists in the ether)
to slink home in defeat should be unnecessary and would be demoralizing for them but, on the other hand, is the western world going to let them do their jobs?
February 27th, 2007 at 3:57 am
AMEN RASTAMAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WE SHOULD HAVE GOT MEAN AND NASTY IN IRAQ A LONG TIME AGO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! IT,S THAT DICKHEAD RUMSFELD THAT SCREWED THAT UP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!WHAT A PIECE OF ASS WIPE HE IS. IF THE HEATHENS GO AT IT IN IRAQ, WHO GIVES A RATS ASS. THE ONLY HOPE FOR THAT SHITHOLE , IS TO PARTITION IT!!!!!!!!
February 27th, 2007 at 8:54 pm
Abdul-Aziz al-Hakims Son was arrested by US forces after his return from Iran. He was detained at the Zirbatya crossing point with his security guards and transferred to a US facility in Kut for interrogation. Al-Hakim’s SCIRI party is a member of the governing coalition.
US authorities in January detained two Iranian agents in the al-Hakim compound in Tehran, accusing them of complicity in operations against US troops in Iraq.
SCIRI, ergo the current Iraqi administration is clearly in love with Iran, hence the Saudi backing for the Sunnis.
The terrorist activities in Iran are just as likely to be finaced by Saudi, as the US. Probably both working together.
The Iranian defense infrastucture, and oil economy needs some serious damage, as Iraq was damaged pre the bash.
Wish they’d get on with it.
Also, something new:-
US troops in Iraq may attack nuclear and military targets in Iran when a high-casualty attack is traced to Tehran
This new presidential directive extends the license President George W. Bush issued last month to US troops to capture or kill Iranian agents supporting Iraqi insurgency and al Qaeda attacks on American forces.
Tehran’s rulers are worried, especially as the new license may well be applied when the downing of a large US helicopter ends in a heavy US death toll.
Maj. Gen James E. Simmons, studying innovative methods taught by Iranian Revolutionary Guards to Iraqi insurgents describes multiple weapons systems fired at the same time as having brought down 7 American helicopters in the last month. This, says Simmons, is the sign of “a thinking enemy†– although sometimes the insurgents appear to have got lucky and hit helicopters with automatic weapons fire as they chanced by.
The New York Times reports these multiple systems may include shoulder-fired surface-to-air missiles, heavy machine guns, rocket-propelled grenades – RPGs and unguided rockets that can’t be diverted by American helicopters’ anti-heat-seeking flares.
This mix of weaponry is designed to ambush the aircraft at any altitude chosen to escape the ground fire.
Under the new presidential directive, the downing of a helicopter carrying a large number of US troops could trigger a bombing campaign against Iran.
And finally
In a sharp policy reversal, the US joins Iraq in a new initiative to invite Iran and Syria to a “neighbors meeting†in Baghdad next month
US secretary of state Condoleezza Rice said Tuesday, Feb. 27: “We hope that all governments seize this opportunity to improve their relations with Iraq and to work for peace and stability in the region.â€
Until now, the Bush administration had resisted calls to include Iran and Syria in diplomatic efforts to stabilize Iraq.
In Baghdad, the Iraqi government announced the meeting would take place in mid-March with the participation of members of the Arab League and the five permanent members of the UN Security Council. Rice said it would be held at sub-ministerial level, to be followed perhaps in April by a full ministerial-level meeting of the same countries, plus G-8 Group members.
Unless it’s the final threats, (which I regard as a foolish tactic), on current form I don’t see much happening there.
Time will tell!!
February 28th, 2007 at 9:50 am
Well said!