MISSION ACOMMPLISHED:..VICTORY IN IRAQ!!!!!!!!

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Three bombings in Iraq's Diyala province kill at least 33 people


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By Ernesto Londoņo (http://projects.washingtonpost.com/staff/articles/ernesto+londoņo/)

Washington Post Staff Writer

Thursday, March 4, 2010


BAGHDAD -- Three bombings in Iraq's (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/world/countries/iraq.html?nav=el) Diyala province targeting government and medical buildings killed at least 33 people Wednesday morning, raising fears about deteriorating security days before Sunday's parliamentary elections (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/02/25/AR2010022504962.html).

Iraqi police officials said at least 55 people were wounded in the blasts.

The initial explosion, a car bomb, targeted an Iraqi police station about 9:45 a.m. in a western district of Baqubah, the provincial capital, according to Maj. Ghalib Aativa, a police spokesman. The detonation ripped through a nearby building and reduced it to rubble.

Minutes later, a suicide bomber in a car detonated explosives near the main provincial building, which has been the target of numerous attacks in recent years. The blast destroyed the office of former prime minister Ibrahim al-Jafari's political party. Jafari, a Shiite, is a candidate in the elections.

Shortly afterward, as the provincial police commander was walking into the city's main hospital to check on wounded police officers, a suicide bomber on foot detonated explosives near the main gate that leads to the emergency room.

Provincial authorities imposed a curfew in Baqubah.

Officials were quick to blame the Sunni insurgent group al-Qaeda in Iraq, which has carried out a series of large-scale bombings in Diyala in the run-up to the elections.

Those wounded in Wednesday's bombings cursed the perpetrators as well as the security forces that they said failed to protect them. "This happened due to negligence by security leaders, and now I'm suffering from a wound in my left hand," said Ali al-Tameemi, the head of the Diyala health center. "One of my colleagues was killed."

In Sunni Arab districts, residents say insurgents have distributed leaflets threatening them with violence if they go to the polls. Despite the threat, most Sunni Arabs say they intend to vote. They are eager to augment their political clout after the 2005 parliamentary elections, which many Sunni blocs boycotted.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/03/03/AR2010030300644.html

'Victory in Iraq"..What a fucking joke!!

[Bill Cosby]

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[Smurf-Herder]

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Isn't your cartoon a little out of date?

Biden said Obama is the one who succeeded in Iraq.

[Bill Cosby]

Isn't your cartoon a little out of date?

Biden said Obama is the one who succeeded in Iraq.

I wonder how Biden defines success???

[bairdi]

I wonder how Biden defines success???

MR. GREGORY: Couple of other issues quickly, if we can. On Iraq, you said this week that it will turn out to be one of this president's great achievements. What did you mean?

VICE PRES. BIDEN: What I meant by that is I think he has taken office and managed the situation incredibly well in Iraq. We are now moving toward a position where there is actual political accommodation among factions who were killing one another just two years ago. We are going to be in a position to bring home 90,000 combat troops by the end of the summer. There will be a successful election, I predict, in Iraq, where there's full participation by the Sunnis, Shia, Kurds and other minorities. You are seeing the Iraqis now working. And we have worked very, very hard. I've made a total of 17 trips to Iraq, four just this year, working with each of the, each of the parties. I think they are working--it will be a great tribute to the Iraqi people and, I think, to the government that we've managed this transition, they've managed the transition well.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/35367033/ns/meet_the_press/page/3/

[Smurf-Herder]

I wonder how Biden defines success???

Actually, it's based on Iraqi troops being trained enough to handle things; so our troops can come home. Basically, the same Status of Forces agreement Bush signed with Iraq before he left office. But somehow it's to Obama's credit.

The only difference I believe there is, is that we're not training their airforce and navy as much as Bush would have wanted, before leaving.

[Bill Cosby]

I wonder what effect bring on those 20,000 Xsadaam troops had??

[Smurf-Herder]

I wonder what effect bring on those 20,000 Xsadaam troops had??

I'm sure it helped, to have trained soldiers in the ranks. As long as they were thoroughly vetted.

[Bill Cosby]

Funny how they talk about how many troops will be coming home........ & they don't mention the 50,000 or so that will be staying along w/ 10's of thousands of mercenaries.....

[Smurf-Herder]

Funny how they talk about how many troops will be coming home........ & they don't mention the 50,000 or so that will be staying along w/ 10's of thousands of mercenaries.....

The problem is, Iraq can't defend itself from any external threats, like if Iran decided to invade. Their existing army is only trained to go after insurgents and maintain internal security.

[Smurf-Herder]

Odierno's Plan B For Iraq Looks Like It's Plan A Now

After alluding to the possibility that he may ask President Obama to keep combat troops in Iraq past August of this year, Gen. Raymond Odierno recently made the request official. Odierno asked for a brigade to stay in the northern Iraq city of Kirkuk, according to Foreign Policy Thursday.

Earlier this week, Odierno said the timeline for combat withdrawal could change if he sees problems with the formation of a new Iraqi government following elections next month. A series of pre-election shooting and car bombing attacks swept the country today, killing 22 people in all.

One of the big problems Mr. Obama faces is what to call the combat unit that remains behind after Aug. 31, 2010, which is the date George W. Bush negotiated for combat troop withdrawal. Some 50,000 troops — not combat forces — will remain behind to help train Iraqi security forces.

The U.S. has about 96,000 troops in Iraq nearly seven years after the American-led invasion that overthrew Saddam Hussein. That's the lowest number of American forces in the country since the invasion.

The remaining support troops are to be gone by the end of 2011.

http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2010/02/25/world/worldwatch/entry6242378.shtml

[Frankg]

Three bombings in Iraq's Diyala province kill at least 33 people


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By Ernesto Londoņo (http://projects.washingtonpost.com/staff/articles/ernesto+londoņo/)

Washington Post Staff Writer

Thursday, March 4, 2010


BAGHDAD -- Three bombings in Iraq's (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/world/countries/iraq.html?nav=el) Diyala province targeting government and medical buildings killed at least 33 people Wednesday morning, raising fears about deteriorating security days before Sunday's parliamentary elections (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/02/25/AR2010022504962.html).

Iraqi police officials said at least 55 people were wounded in the blasts.

The initial explosion, a car bomb, targeted an Iraqi police station about 9:45 a.m. in a western district of Baqubah, the provincial capital, according to Maj. Ghalib Aativa, a police spokesman. The detonation ripped through a nearby building and reduced it to rubble.

Minutes later, a suicide bomber in a car detonated explosives near the main provincial building, which has been the target of numerous attacks in recent years. The blast destroyed the office of former prime minister Ibrahim al-Jafari's political party. Jafari, a Shiite, is a candidate in the elections.

Shortly afterward, as the provincial police commander was walking into the city's main hospital to check on wounded police officers, a suicide bomber on foot detonated explosives near the main gate that leads to the emergency room.

Provincial authorities imposed a curfew in Baqubah.

Officials were quick to blame the Sunni insurgent group al-Qaeda in Iraq, which has carried out a series of large-scale bombings in Diyala in the run-up to the elections.

Those wounded in Wednesday's bombings cursed the perpetrators as well as the security forces that they said failed to protect them. "This happened due to negligence by security leaders, and now I'm suffering from a wound in my left hand," said Ali al-Tameemi, the head of the Diyala health center. "One of my colleagues was killed."

In Sunni Arab districts, residents say insurgents have distributed leaflets threatening them with violence if they go to the polls. Despite the threat, most Sunni Arabs say they intend to vote. They are eager to augment their political clout after the 2005 parliamentary elections, which many Sunni blocs boycotted.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/03/03/AR2010030300644.html

'Victory in Iraq"..What a fucking joke!!
More people die in United States every month than in Iraq

[slowhand]

More people die in United States every month than in Iraq

Bravo!!!..Thank you for shraring Frankie :lmao2: :lmao2: :lmao2: