Comments on: The War is Over, for the Brits anyway http://www.dvorak.org/blog/2007/12/10/the-war-is-over-for-the-brits-anyway/ General interest observations and true web-log. Sun, 12 Feb 2012 18:49:51 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Glenn E. http://www.dvorak.org/blog/2007/12/10/the-war-is-over-for-the-brits-anyway/comment-page-2/#comment-914877 Glenn E. Wed, 12 Dec 2007 10:50:51 +0000 http://www.dvorak.org/blog/?p=14996#comment-914877 When Prince Harry gets the call, it's time to withdraw. How could I make that any plainer? The UK couldn't keep him out of their draft system forever. But they could pull out of Iraq before he's put at risk for too long. So he ends up getting the Elvis treatment. A safe little job away from the real danger. You don't honestly believe that their gov't will risk Harry's neck, for Bush's war? Pul-lease! When Prince Harry gets the call, it’s time to withdraw. How could I make that any plainer? The UK couldn’t keep him out of their draft system forever. But they could pull out of Iraq before he’s put at risk for too long. So he ends up getting the Elvis treatment. A safe little job away from the real danger. You don’t honestly believe that their gov’t will risk Harry’s neck, for Bush’s war? Pul-lease!

]]> By: Phillep http://www.dvorak.org/blog/2007/12/10/the-war-is-over-for-the-brits-anyway/comment-page-2/#comment-913979 Phillep Tue, 11 Dec 2007 20:47:51 +0000 http://www.dvorak.org/blog/?p=14996#comment-913979 Greg, where do you get the silly notion that the World Wars were motivated by religion? Greg, where do you get the silly notion that the World Wars were motivated by religion?

]]> By: gregallen http://www.dvorak.org/blog/2007/12/10/the-war-is-over-for-the-brits-anyway/comment-page-2/#comment-912852 gregallen Tue, 11 Dec 2007 04:36:14 +0000 http://www.dvorak.org/blog/?p=14996#comment-912852 Phillep said, <i> Greg, Moslems have too long and bloody a record for me to put any effort into “healing our relationship with the Moslems”. </i> Longer and bloodier than what other people? Longer and bloodier than Christian European culture? You say, "Islam murdered more people in India alone than Christianity ever did. " Are you serious? Take just ONE of our World Wars, let alone BOTH, and the Muslims can't beat that for body count. Not even close. You're kind of history revisionist bigotry is what makes societies suckers for wars. Don't let yourself be a pawn, like that. Phillep said, Greg, Moslems have too long and bloody a record for me to put any effort into “healing our relationship with the Moslems”.

Longer and bloodier than what other people?

Longer and bloodier than Christian European culture?

You say, “Islam murdered more people in India alone than Christianity ever did. ”

Are you serious? Take just ONE of our World Wars, let alone BOTH, and the Muslims can’t beat that for body count. Not even close.

You’re kind of history revisionist bigotry is what makes societies suckers for wars. Don’t let yourself be a pawn, like that.

]]> By: TIHZ_HO http://www.dvorak.org/blog/2007/12/10/the-war-is-over-for-the-brits-anyway/comment-page-2/#comment-912822 TIHZ_HO Tue, 11 Dec 2007 03:57:50 +0000 http://www.dvorak.org/blog/?p=14996#comment-912822 Pull out? Doesn't sound manly to me...better leave it in there and get the job done! ;) Cheers Pull out? Doesn’t sound manly to me…better leave it in there and get the job done! ;)

Cheers

]]> By: RickCain http://www.dvorak.org/blog/2007/12/10/the-war-is-over-for-the-brits-anyway/comment-page-2/#comment-912805 RickCain Tue, 11 Dec 2007 03:47:36 +0000 http://www.dvorak.org/blog/?p=14996#comment-912805 Its ironic that after Saddam Hussein fell, iraqi christians are now fleeing for their lives, leaving iraq in droves. Iraq has had christians for 2000 years and it looks like this is the last swan song for their presence due to the USA invasion and occupation. Iraq used to even have jews, but at last word there were 2 left, very old men who refuse to leave but I suspect they will get killed off by the Badr Brigades of the SCIRI which the USA put into power. Mission Accomplished! Its ironic that after Saddam Hussein fell, iraqi christians are now fleeing for their lives, leaving iraq in droves. Iraq has had christians for 2000 years and it looks like this is the last swan song for their presence due to the USA invasion and occupation.
Iraq used to even have jews, but at last word there were 2 left, very old men who refuse to leave but I suspect they will get killed off by the Badr Brigades of the SCIRI which the USA put into power.

Mission Accomplished!

]]> By: Mister Mustard http://www.dvorak.org/blog/2007/12/10/the-war-is-over-for-the-brits-anyway/comment-page-2/#comment-912717 Mister Mustard Tue, 11 Dec 2007 02:30:07 +0000 http://www.dvorak.org/blog/?p=14996#comment-912717 >>So something actually was being >>accomplished in Iraq BY MILITARY >>FORCES? Not really, other than undoing the damage we inflicted by Dumbya's misguided invasion of the wrong fucking country. >>The British are standing down as the >>Iraqis stand up, just as President >>Bush said. Hey! Are you Karl Rove? Dick Cheney? NOBODY else would say that. >>So something actually was being
>>accomplished in Iraq BY MILITARY
>>FORCES?

Not really, other than undoing the damage we inflicted by Dumbya’s misguided invasion of the wrong fucking country.

>>The British are standing down as the
>>Iraqis stand up, just as President
>>Bush said.

Hey! Are you Karl Rove? Dick Cheney? NOBODY else would say that.

]]> By: MikeN http://www.dvorak.org/blog/2007/12/10/the-war-is-over-for-the-brits-anyway/comment-page-1/#comment-912712 MikeN Tue, 11 Dec 2007 02:26:43 +0000 http://www.dvorak.org/blog/?p=14996#comment-912712 So something actually was being accomplished in Iraq BY MILITARY FORCES? The British are standing down as the Iraqis stand up, just as President Bush said. It's also happening with US troops too. It's not just British forces that newly trained Iraqi security forces are replacing. So something actually was being accomplished in Iraq BY MILITARY FORCES? The British are standing down as the Iraqis stand up, just as President Bush said. It’s also happening with US troops too. It’s not just British forces that newly trained Iraqi security forces are replacing.

]]> By: Phillep http://www.dvorak.org/blog/2007/12/10/the-war-is-over-for-the-brits-anyway/comment-page-1/#comment-912636 Phillep Tue, 11 Dec 2007 01:33:17 +0000 http://www.dvorak.org/blog/?p=14996#comment-912636 Greg, Moslems have too long and bloody a record for me to put any effort into "healing our relationship with the Moslems". Islam was spread by conquest from Saudi Arabia, across (Christian) Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, Turkey, Egypt, Libya, Sudan, Ethiopia, Somolia, Tunisia, Algeria, Morrocco, Spain, Italy, Romania, and Ukrania, and that's just the Christian ones I'm sure of. Islam also conquered Zoroastran Iraq, Buddhist Iran, Buddhist and Hindu Pakistan and India, I don't know what the other nations were along the south coast, but the Moslems did start murdering their way into Mindinao when the Spanish stopped them. Islam murdered more people in India alone than Christianity ever did. The murders continue. Not acts that are "morally equivelent to murder", actual "blood on the ground" type murder. "Heal relations"? I'm not going to sweat their hurt feelings. Greg, Moslems have too long and bloody a record for me to put any effort into “healing our relationship with the Moslems”.

Islam was spread by conquest from Saudi Arabia, across (Christian) Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, Turkey, Egypt, Libya, Sudan, Ethiopia, Somolia, Tunisia, Algeria, Morrocco, Spain, Italy, Romania, and Ukrania, and that’s just the Christian ones I’m sure of.

Islam also conquered Zoroastran Iraq, Buddhist Iran, Buddhist and Hindu Pakistan and India, I don’t know what the other nations were along the south coast, but the Moslems did start murdering their way into Mindinao when the Spanish stopped them.

Islam murdered more people in India alone than Christianity ever did. The murders continue. Not acts that are “morally equivelent to murder”, actual “blood on the ground” type murder.

“Heal relations”? I’m not going to sweat their hurt feelings.

]]> By: PoliticallyVeryCorrect http://www.dvorak.org/blog/2007/12/10/the-war-is-over-for-the-brits-anyway/comment-page-1/#comment-912582 PoliticallyVeryCorrect Tue, 11 Dec 2007 00:59:23 +0000 http://www.dvorak.org/blog/?p=14996#comment-912582 #17 what ya know, wrong country again? well, third time a charm, so Iran must be it for sure :D #17 what ya know, wrong country again?
well, third time a charm, so Iran must be it for sure :D

]]> By: gregallen http://www.dvorak.org/blog/2007/12/10/the-war-is-over-for-the-brits-anyway/comment-page-1/#comment-912578 gregallen Tue, 11 Dec 2007 00:54:39 +0000 http://www.dvorak.org/blog/?p=14996#comment-912578 Phillep said, <i> Does anyone besides the Brits think pulling out is going to buy them any slack from the Moslems? </i> The main reason to get our of Iraq is not "slack from Moslems"... IT'S BECAUSE BUSH INVADED TO THE WRONG COUNTRY IN THE FIRST PLACE. This will go down as one of the most stupid acts of foreign policy in the history of the USA and the sooner we can get out the better. The fact that a withdrawal might allow us to, some day, heal our relationship with the Muslim world is also a benefit. Phillep said, Does anyone besides the Brits think pulling out is going to buy them any slack from the Moslems?

The main reason to get our of Iraq is not “slack from Moslems”…

IT’S BECAUSE BUSH INVADED TO THE WRONG COUNTRY IN THE FIRST PLACE.

This will go down as one of the most stupid acts of foreign policy in the history of the USA and the sooner we can get out the better.

The fact that a withdrawal might allow us to, some day, heal our relationship with the Muslim world is also a benefit.

]]> By: gregallen http://www.dvorak.org/blog/2007/12/10/the-war-is-over-for-the-brits-anyway/comment-page-1/#comment-912567 gregallen Tue, 11 Dec 2007 00:50:24 +0000 http://www.dvorak.org/blog/?p=14996#comment-912567 You cons think the surge worked? Withdrawal works WAY WAY better! <i>Britiain Credits Troop Withdrawal for Significant Drop In Attacks in Iraq Friday, November 16, 2007 BAGHDAD — Attacks against British and Iraqi forces have plunged by 90 percent in southern Iraq since London withdrew its troops from the main city of Basra, the commander of British forces there said. The presence of British forces in downtown Basra, Iraq's second-largest city, was the single largest instigator of violence, Maj. Gen. Graham Binns told reporters Thursday on a visit to Baghdad's Green Zone. "We thought, 'If 90 percent of the violence is directed at us, what would happen if we stepped back?"' Binns said. Britain's 5,000 troops moved out of a former Saddam Hussein palace at Basra's heart in early September, setting up a garrison at an airport on the city's edge. Since that pullback, there's been a "remarkable and dramatic drop in attacks," Binns said. "The motivation for attacking us was gone, because we're no longer patrolling the streets," he said. ,/i> http://tinyurl.com/3cssas And before you kneejerk warmongers blame the "libr'l media," note that I used a report from FOX news. (you can tell by noting that the "Britiain" typo in a month-old report has yet to be noticed.)</i> You cons think the surge worked? Withdrawal works WAY WAY better!

Britiain Credits Troop Withdrawal for Significant Drop In Attacks in Iraq

Friday, November 16, 2007

BAGHDAD — Attacks against British and Iraqi forces have plunged by 90 percent in southern Iraq since London withdrew its troops from the main city of Basra, the commander of British forces there said.

The presence of British forces in downtown Basra, Iraq’s second-largest city, was the single largest instigator of violence, Maj. Gen. Graham Binns told reporters Thursday on a visit to Baghdad’s Green Zone.

“We thought, ‘If 90 percent of the violence is directed at us, what would happen if we stepped back?”‘ Binns said.

Britain’s 5,000 troops moved out of a former Saddam Hussein palace at Basra’s heart in early September, setting up a garrison at an airport on the city’s edge. Since that pullback, there’s been a “remarkable and dramatic drop in attacks,” Binns said.

“The motivation for attacking us was gone, because we’re no longer patrolling the streets,” he said. ,/i>

http://tinyurl.com/3cssas

And before you kneejerk warmongers blame the “libr’l media,” note that I used a report from FOX news.

(you can tell by noting that the “Britiain” typo in a month-old report has yet to be noticed.)

]]> By: Dallas http://www.dvorak.org/blog/2007/12/10/the-war-is-over-for-the-brits-anyway/comment-page-1/#comment-912566 Dallas Tue, 11 Dec 2007 00:49:49 +0000 http://www.dvorak.org/blog/?p=14996#comment-912566 Is there anybody left in the coalition other than Albania, East Timor and that turtle from the Galapagos Islands? Is there anybody left in the coalition other than Albania, East Timor and that turtle from the Galapagos Islands?

]]> By: PoliticallyVeryCorrect http://www.dvorak.org/blog/2007/12/10/the-war-is-over-for-the-brits-anyway/comment-page-1/#comment-912492 PoliticallyVeryCorrect Mon, 10 Dec 2007 23:40:14 +0000 http://www.dvorak.org/blog/?p=14996#comment-912492 “Happy Christmas – war is over.” The PM was cheered... I wonder will they cheer him after another 7/7 happens in London? No war is over until someone wins and someone loses. Oh well, Gordie doesn't have quarter the balls Thatcher had, thats for sure... “Happy Christmas – war is over.” The PM was cheered…

I wonder will they cheer him after another 7/7 happens in London?

No war is over until someone wins and someone loses. Oh well, Gordie doesn’t have quarter the balls Thatcher had, thats for sure…

]]> By: eaze http://www.dvorak.org/blog/2007/12/10/the-war-is-over-for-the-brits-anyway/comment-page-1/#comment-912487 eaze Mon, 10 Dec 2007 23:36:14 +0000 http://www.dvorak.org/blog/?p=14996#comment-912487 He is clearly just playing to the crowd he could have done this months ago. Another tick on his things to do before the election list. He is clearly just playing to the crowd he could have done this months ago.

Another tick on his things to do before the election list.

]]> By: Phillep http://www.dvorak.org/blog/2007/12/10/the-war-is-over-for-the-brits-anyway/comment-page-1/#comment-912480 Phillep Mon, 10 Dec 2007 23:27:22 +0000 http://www.dvorak.org/blog/?p=14996#comment-912480 Does anyone besides the Brits think pulling out is going to buy them any slack from the Moslems? Does anyone besides the Brits think pulling out is going to buy them any slack from the Moslems?

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