Well said. I hope you're not holding your breath.
Posted by eRobin at April 15, 2008 10:51 AMonly Iranians are smart enough to use watches to carry out coordinated attacks. They must be training the Sunni now. That is "Significant Progress" if Shia Iran and Sunni Iraqi's are working together...peace is soon to follow.
Posted by T2 at April 15, 2008 11:32 AMBaquba, those killed there were at a crowded restaurant...CROWDED. Normal everyday people sitting down to a normal everyday meal at a local restaurant. A year ago...no restaurant. Anyone can get it right one time, how many times have they not been right? How many have our allies prevented? Whats the ratio of hit verses misses? Hey, they've been trying. The locals felt comfortable enough to eat out. What does that tell about our efforts there? Awful events have happened. There have been an uptick in aggressiveness by the Iraqi Army and police units. One aggression usually sees a response or counter.
If a Clinton throws darts at a Obama, does the Obama just sit down and take it?
Posted by peter at April 15, 2008 12:53 PMPeter;
I am not surprised by your twisted logic as to people were out eating in a restaurant that was not possible without the surge.
Do you know that when Saddam was running Iraq, there were no roadside bombing like this. Sunnis and Shias were living in the integrated neighborhood, women were working side by side with men, women were safe to go out any time of day or night. I can go on and on. In 5 years of our presence there, we have destroyed Iraq under the name of bringing Democracy.
When are you going to be honest with yourself and admit that we made a mistake in Iraq. Seventy percent Americans think so. But then again you are the part of 30% stupid Americans who will support anything this administration does.
Posted by suresh at April 15, 2008 01:38 PMSuresh, perhaps you weren't paying attention before. I've said "we've made mistakes in Iraq" before. Conditions under Saddam don't matter now. It's the conditions now...a year ago...no restaurant. Now a crowded restaurant and people, innocent Iraqis just having a meal out, get attacked by a madman or woman with a bomb attached to them. They felt safe enough to go out, congregate at a restaurant. Why? Why did they feel safe there? A year ago they didn't feel safe.
Facts are, we're there now. We have to help Iraqis build/rebuild a safe country again. Enable them to provide safety for their citizens.
Posted by peter at April 15, 2008 03:08 PMLook for the violence to get worse right up to the day of the GE.
The bombers want the dems in and the US out.
Posted by TIKI AL at April 15, 2008 03:38 PMAnd the Dems will just stay there, then what will the bombers do?
Posted by peter at April 15, 2008 06:01 PMThe Baquba attack was not at a restaurant, peter, it was on a street crowded with people waiting to get into a government building. The smaller attck in Ramadi was at a kebab stand reportedly favored by police in an Awakening Council neighborhood. So in neither case was it a joyous time of family diners out on the town.
You are (as always) hoplessly wrong about your facts. You never get anything right, haven't you spotted that yet? No, because being continually wrong is meaningless to cretin.
But your right wing shit troughs have told you that they "know" the kebab stand wasn't there a year ago, and that now even the targets selected by the insurgents demonstrate that The Surge is Working!, to reinforce the Bushist slogan that has gotten into your dogbrain and which passes for "thinking".
Nothing you post has the slightest connection to reality.
Posted by euzoius at April 16, 2008 05:50 AM