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Current Events => Breaking News => Topic started by: TheSarge on July 06, 2008, 09:15:43 AM
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American and Iraqi forces are driving Al-Qaeda in Iraq out of its last redoubt in the north of the country in the culmination of one of the most spectacular victories of the war on terror.
After being forced from its strongholds in the west and centre of Iraq in the past two years, Al-Qaeda’s dwindling band of fighters has made a defiant “last stand†in the northern city of Mosul.
A huge operation to crush the 1,200 fighters who remained from a terrorist force once estimated at more than 12,000 began on May 10.
Operation Lion’s Roar, in which the Iraqi army combined forces with the Americans’ 3rd Armoured Cavalry Regiment, has already resulted in the death of Abu Khalaf, the Al-Qaeda leader, and the capture of more than 1,000 suspects.
The group has been reduced to hit-and-run attacks, including one that killed two off-duty policemen yesterday, and sporadic bombings aimed at killing large numbers of officials and civilians.
Last Friday I joined the 2nd Iraqi Division as it supported local police in a house-to-house search for one such bomb after intelligence pointed to a large explosion today.
Even in the district of Zanjali, previously a hotbed of the insurgency, it was possible to accompany an Iraqi colonel on foot through streets of breeze-block houses studded with bullet holes. Hundreds of houses were searched without resistance but no bomb was found, only 60kg of explosives.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/iraq/article4276486.ece
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:bravo:
Any comments, Senator Reid?
Yeah... thought not.
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:bow: To the american military...
Too bad this article will never make it the MSM.
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:bow: To the american military...
Too bad this article will never make it the MSM.
That's ok though. I think a LOT of us have finally realized that the MSM is not our friend.
As long as you know...and you tell people that YOU know about this and stories get passed that way...America will find out what the media refuses to tell them.
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:bravo:
Any comments, Senator Reid?
Yeah... thought not.
Nancy Pelosi was strangely silent on this as well.
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:bow: To the american military...
Too bad this article will never make it the MSM.
That's ok though. I think a LOT of us have finally realized that the MSM is not our friend.
As long as you know...and you tell people that YOU know about this and stories get passed that way...America will find out what the media refuses to tell them.
It's not as if that paper is a small paper. And Drudge ran with this as well. The word is getting out. It may be slow, but it is happening.
Thats why we've got Obama trying to quietly slip into the whole "I'm for victory" stance. He's seeing that Iraq is no longer a sinking ship and he's trying to climb back on board.
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It's not as if that paper is a small paper. And Drudge ran with this as well. The word is getting out. It may be slow, but it is happening.
Thats why we've got Obama trying to quietly slip into the whole "I'm for victory" stance. He's seeing that Iraq is no longer a sinking ship and he's trying to climb back on board.
But unfortunately for Barakstar! the media and the kook fringe base he sucked up to last year in Chicago won't let him off the hook.
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:bow: To the american military...
Too bad this article will never make it the MSM.
That's ok though. I think a LOT of us have finally realized that the MSM is not our friend.
As long as you know...and you tell people that YOU know about this and stories get passed that way...America will find out what the media refuses to tell them.
I've already forwarded this to a number of people,and have posted it on a board I regularly use that have a fair share of democrats. :-)
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It's not as if that paper is a small paper. And Drudge ran with this as well. The word is getting out. It may be slow, but it is happening.
Thats why we've got Obama trying to quietly slip into the whole "I'm for victory" stance. He's seeing that Iraq is no longer a sinking ship and he's trying to climb back on board.
But unfortunately for Barakstar! the media and the kook fringe base he sucked up to last year in Chicago won't let him off the hook.
Ahhh. He already sees it. That's why he's "refining" his position on Iraq now.
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The silence is deafening.
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Uh, yeah, libs... About that "quagmire..."?
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Uh, yeah, libs... About that "quagmire..."?
They know they've backed themselves into a corner on this one.
Hence the stories about how "more soldiers died last month in Afghanistan than Iraq in June".
Any way the MSM can find to keep the whole thing in the most negative light possible...they will do.
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Uh, yeah, libs... About that "quagmire..."?
DUmmie's response: "....um........giggity?"
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Good riddance to Al-Qaida. :evillaugh:
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It's not as if that paper is a small paper. And Drudge ran with this as well. The word is getting out. It may be slow, but it is happening.
Thats why we've got Obama trying to quietly slip into the whole "I'm for victory" stance. He's seeing that Iraq is no longer a sinking ship and he's trying to climb back on board.
But unfortunately for Barakstar! the media and the kook fringe base he sucked up to last year in Chicago won't let him off the hook.
Ahhh. He already sees it. That's why he's "refining" his position on Iraq now.
HAHAHA......yep.....even saw John Kerry on TV yesterday trying to explain what Obama-dama had really said way back ...uh..... when .... when what he meant was .... that he....uh..... was for......uh ......a controlled..... you know......
:rotf:John Kerry helping Obama explain things :rotf: :rotf: :rotf: