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Politics : Liberalism: Do You Agree We've Had Enough of It? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Bearcatbob who wrote (950)	12/21/2004 12:58:57 AM
From: Richnorth	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 224668

Looney and leftist crap and hilarious stuff, eh? Good for you! After all, laughter is the best medicine! Laugh all you can for now before you start wringing your hands when your boy or gal (that is, if you do have one available) is headed for Iraq. Read on:- An Honest US Marine Confirms Fallujah Disaster And Lashes Back At David Hackworth From GE News 12-19-4 rense.com Read this honest marine's words carefully, what the Iraqi resistance and several other foreign (non-Arab) agencies have reported about Fallujah 2 battle is correct. Here is an honest United states Marine talking about the first night of Fallujah 2 and later on in the battle: Responding to Dave (Hackworth): "To Dave - you are a liar i am a usmc-cpl. station at camp pendleton and i lost 18 good friends in the fullujah operations. the soldier that wrote this letter, failed to mentioned the grad rocket booby traps that injured and killed over a 500 (Marine) troops on the night of the iniatial offense. support forces failed to provide blocking support for the corp and we were ambushed severely and took heavy casualties. you should be ashamed of yourself, because it sounds like a reporter wrote the letter instead of a soldier. And i notice the letter was never addressed to a loved one, dave! the next time you think of lying to the public consider the families at camp pendleton ca. who would be glad if this story was true...but know that it isn't because hundreds of their dead loved ones came home in a coroners bag. and, oh, by the way, those 2-7 cav pussies conducted a tactical retreat on the 4th day of battle, leaving leavig the 1st-2nd-(mef)to fend for themselves, leaving the insurgents in control of 60% of the city." Uncle Sam Wants Your Kids - Now! By David H. Hackworth We'll soon have 150,000 U.S. troops stuck in the ever-expanding Iraqi quagmire, a number that will probably grow even larger before Iraq holds elections presently scheduled for the end of January 2005. Maintaining such a force is a logistical and personnel nightmare for every grunt in Iraq. And according to several Pentagon number crunchers, it's also driving the top brass bonkers. Meanwhile, the insurgents continue cutting our supply lines and whacking our fighting platoons and supporters, who attrit daily as soldiers and Marines fall to enemy shots, sickness or accidents. Empty platoons lose fights, so these casualties have to be replaced ASAP. Since this tragic war kicked off in March 2003, the United States has evacuated an estimated 50,000 KIA (Killed), WIA (wounded) and non-battle casualties from Iraq back to the States - leaving 50,000 slots that have had to be filled. ______________ Report Totals for December 18, 2004 By Blue Agua Guest on 18.12.2004 [10:00 ] U.S Soldiers Killed.............101 Humvees Des Disa............21 Bradleys...........................11 Abrams Tanks................... 3 Tankers/Trucks.................7 Not included anything from the Fallujah part, as it seems that is a repeat of previous past days news and information. American Forces Lose Control Of Mosul By Patrick Cockburn in Baghdad The Independent - UK 12-18-4 rense.com Major US Defeat In Fallujah Claimed Lions Of Fallujah Hail Major Victory Over US Forces By Muhammad Abu Nasr Free Arab Voice And Omar Al-Faris, JUS 12-17-4 rense.com Iraqi insurgents are growing more effective Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) - Iraqi insurgents are growing more effective and it will take time to get U.S. troops the $4 billion in armor they need for protection, defense officials said Wednesday. "This is not Wal-Mart,'' one general said. Officials rejected growing criticism that armor shortages in Iraq reflect poor war planning, and they said they've been working as fast as possible to give troops what they need. guardian.co.uk COMMENT: most of the people blindly follow and believe the news given by Zionist media such as, NBC, CBS, FOX, CNN, that proven to be displaying crabs. On the other hand, if you follow independent free presses such as RENSE.COM, JUS, IRAQ_MIRROR, ABSARAH, GENEWS, FREE AMERICAN PRESS, DAVID DUKE WEB, THE_TRUTH, INSIDE_STORY, WHATREALLYHAPPENDS, DNN, ETC. you will find real news that you cannot find from Zionist media. Zionist media never let you know that US is losing war in Afghanistan and Iraq, which the the US is actually fighting for pirate Israel. If there is a war against Iran, again, it will be for pirate Israel. Eventually, America have to pay heavy price for its illegitimate child pirate Israel when its economy will completely collapse. Unemployment is already going up. Crime rates are rapidly going up and "return of Bush" will end up, perhaps, with a spectacular civil war within the USA.

To: Bearcatbob who wrote (950)	12/21/2004 1:03:56 AM
From: Richnorth	Respond to of 224668

rense.com

To: Bearcatbob who wrote (950)	12/23/2004 12:30:53 AM
From: Richnorth	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 224668

Dec 23, 2004 Mosul attack shows Iraqi insurgents getting more sophisticated Experts say the deadly raid appears to be based on precise intelligence ========================================================== WASHINGTON - IN APRIL last year, as the United States-led invasion of Iraq was ending, the Pentagon projection was that the US military occupation of the country would end this month. Mosul attack shows Iraqi insurgents getting more sophisticated Instead, the current month brought the deadliest single incident of the war for US forces, when a US base near the northern Iraqi city of Mosul was hit by mortars at lunchtime on Tuesday. Fourteen of the 22 killed in the attack on a mess tent at the city's airport were American soldiers - more US troops than have been lost in nearly any other major incident in the fighting, even during last year's spring invasion. Before this, the worst incidents were the deaths of 17 soldiers from the 101st Airborne Division in the collision of two UH-60 Black Hawk helicopters, also in Mosul, in November last year and, two weeks before that, the loss of 15 soldiers when a CH-47 Chinook transport helicopter crashed west of Baghdad. All three occurred after President George W. Bush's declaration in May last year that major combat operations in Iraq had ended. The major difference between the latest attack and the earlier incidents is that it was an attack on a US base, rather than on troops in transit in vulnerable aircraft. That difference appears to reflect both the persistence of the insurgency and its growing sophistication, as experts noted that it seemed to be based on precise intelligence. Most disturbingly, some officers who have served in Iraq worried that the Mosul attack could mark the beginning of a period of even more intense violence preceding the Iraqi elections scheduled for Jan 30. 'On the strategic level, we were expecting a horrendous month leading up to the Iraqi elections, and that has begun,' retired Army Colonel Michael Hess said. Mr Jeffrey White, a former Defence Intelligence Agency analyst of Middle Eastern military affairs, said he was especially worried that the insurgents' next move would be an actual penetration by fighters into a base. 'The real danger here is that they will mount a sophisticated effort to penetrate or assault one of our camps or bases with a ground element,' he said. If anti-American violence does hit a new level, pressure is likely to increase on the Bush administration to either boost the US military presence in Iraq or find a fast way to get out. The adequacy of current troop numbers is one of the questions raised, said Mr Charles McComas, a veteran Special Forces soldier who served in Afghanistan before retiring. 'Do we have the right forces and enough of them to do the offensive patrolling to reduce the chances of this happening again?' he asked. A private-sector security expert who recently left Baghdad after more than a year there agreed, noting that the US originally put an entire division in the Mosul area, the 101st Airborne, but replaced it earlier this year with a force about half that size, only to see insurgent attacks increase. The attack also indicates that the insurgency is growing more sophisticated with the passage of time. One of the basic principles of waging a counter-insurgency is that it requires patience. 'Twenty-one months' - the length of the occupation so far - 'is not a long time to tame the tribal warfare expected there,' said retired Marine Lieutenant-Colonel Rick Raftery, an intelligence specialist who operated in northern Iraq in 1991. 'My guess is that this will take 10 years.' Another principle, less noted but painfully clear, is that insurgents also tend to sharpen their tactics as time goes by. Over the past 20 months, enemy fighters have learnt a lot about how the US military operates and where its vulnerabilities lie. 'The longer you are anywhere, the more difficult it becomes,' said Col Hess, who served in northern Iraq in 1991 and in Bosnia in 1996. 'They have changed their tactics a lot in the year-plus.' Several experts noted that insurgents appear to have acted on accurate intelligence. -- WASHINGTON POST

To: Bearcatbob who wrote (950)	12/23/2004 12:35:09 AM
From: Richnorth	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 224668

It's time for you to avenge the US troops in Iraq!!! If you can't go, then send your son or daughter ASAP!!! ================================================= Dec 23, 2004 US says suicide bomber probably caused Iraq blast WASHINGTON - A suicide bomber was the likely cause of the deadliest single attack on American troops in Iraq - an explosion at a US base that killed 22 people, the Defence Department's top general said on Wednesday. 'At this point, it looks like it was an improvised explosive device worn by an attacker,' General Richard Myers, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told reporters at a Pentagon news conference. The explosion on Tuesday ripped through a dining hall tent while hundreds of troops were eating lunch at Forward Operating Base Marez near the northern city of Mosul. Military officials initially said a 122mm rocket was the likely cause. Gen Myers would not comment on specific evidence, but said, 'If it was a rocket, you'd find remnants of the rocket. If it were an improvised explosive device you would find remnants of the improvised explosive device.' In Iraq, military officials said on Wednesday that shrapnel from the explosion included small metal pellets such as ball bearings, which are often used in suicide bombings but are not usually part of the shrapnel given off by rockets or mortars. Gen Myers did not say whether authorities believe the bomber worked at the base or got into the mess hall some other way. He said military officials in Baghdad would release more details later. A contingent of FBI bomb technicians has been deployed to help the military investigate the bombing, said an FBI official on condition of anonymity because of bureau policy. The Baghdad-based FBI team will help identify the type of explosive and components used, which could provide forensic links to previous Iraq bombings. Of the 22 people killed, 13 were US military, five US civilian contractors, three Iraqi security force members and one other non-US individual. In addition, Gen Myers said 69 people were injured, including 44 US military, seven US contractors, five Defence Department civilians, two Iraqi civilians, 10 contractors of other nationalities and one of unknown nationality and occupation. He would not say whether officials believe the unidentified corpse was the bomber, or whether the unidentified injured person was involved in the attack. -- AP .