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U.S. forces are battling insurgents in southern Baghdad, shaking the Iraqi capital into the early hours with some of the heaviest explosions and gunfire in weeks.
Witnesses reported hearing the blasts kilometres away and some residents said U.S bombers were in action. The U.S. military would only confirm its troops were involved in Operation Iron Justice(was hammer), part of the new tactics adopted to counter a relentless insurgency.
More than 200 U.S. soldiers have been killed since Washington declared major combat over on May 1 in attacks officials have blamed on loyalists of ousted President Saddam Hussein and foreign fighters.
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Originally posted by Thomas Crowne
Wake up,
if the majority of the Iraqis were as you make them appear to be, we would not be able to maintain any presence there.
What, did you think that the capture of Hussein would cause a cessation of all hostilities against the attempts to rebuild the country and give it to the people of Iraq?
Did you think bthat the numerous insurgents from other nations, working out there anti-democratic agendas would give up the fight? Nowhere has any media or public official said this, only that it would be a way of getting rid of the myth of Hussein, that he would some day come back and rain terror upon those who spoke out against him.
Nobody with any sense or comprehension would think this would be an easy mission, only that it is a necessary mission and one that has to be seen to the end.
Originally posted by Thomas Crowne
Are you Michael Moore?
There aren't mass bombings of populated areas, much less mass slaughters,
I've seen nowhere that the media has attempted to lead us as you assert, except a few pundits (not journalists) that said it could have a possitive affect,
and, no, the Iraqi portion of the War on Terror was not necessary. Unless you are actually trying to stop terror.
Your twists of fact and wild usage of inaccurate wording (such as slaughter) makes your writing appear as biased and unfactual as Moore's propaganda.
I am awake, sir, and I see from the past that this is not a war that we initiated, but one that we are finally fighting. I am receiving nothing? What do you expect me to receive from a situation where my government is doing as they are required; defending my homeland from foreign attack?
Would you think it less conspiratorial if foreign nations were being hired to do what our domestic corporations are doing? You are seeing reality and trying fervently to attach a conspiratorial reason for it, but without any shred of evidence. Your writings and assertions are better left for the NWO forum, wouldn't it seem?
Originally posted by Thomas Crowne
Devil, that wasn't meant to be non-nasty humor, trust me!
There is no reason to continue. Your responses that fly in the face of logic and evidence is a waste of time. Your ignoring the plain and simple facts of Hussein connections to terror and WMD's, and of how Hussein, coupled with other haters of the West could hurt us with more than slingshots (Is that what you call airliners nowadays?) coupled with your calling bias nonsense "facts" is unarguable.
Try and work that atrophied imagination for a few minutes, to see how the "slingshot" would hurt us. Picture the next highjacked plane having a small nuclear device onboard, one maybe stolen or purchased after the Soviet Empire started its crumbling. Or a stolen truck carrying the same item, or maybe a stolen plane flying over your city depositing a particularly nasty virus, compliments of Sadam and delivered by his equally American-loathing terrorist friends? Think out of the box, dude, ICBM's are the least of our concerns today.
Of course, you are smart enough to know this, it just gets in the way of your political agenda. What a sad shame, no intellectual honesty here, huh? Except me, of course. Totally honest and objective. Follow me, Grasshopper, and I will teach you the way of clarity and truth.
www.foxnews.com...
WASHINGTON � Deposed Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein (search) may have not been involved in the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks, but he definitely is linked to the terrorists who did commit those crimes, President Bush said Wednesday.
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WASHINGTON � Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld (search) said Tuesday he had no reason to believe that Iraq's Saddam Hussein had a hand in the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks (search) on the United States.
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Poll: 70% believe Saddam, 9-11 link
WASHINGTON (AP) � Nearly seven in 10 Americans believe it is likely that ousted Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein was personally involved in the Sept. 11 attacks, says a poll out almost two years after the terrorists' strike against this country.
Originally posted by Thomas Crowne
Please, do you think I'm listening to you?
You know that the links were made by foreign intel even, not our intel, and had you been awake and sober month and months ago, you'd remember that Hussein even had a passenger plane in the boondocks for training.
Of course, you are going to brainwash yourself into thinking the plane was to train Iraqi women to be flight attendants,
just like you told yourself that his weather balloon program was so advanced he needed to make it a mobile program, thereby keeping the Americans ignorant of the Iraqi Great Weather Balloon Gap!
And, may I remind you of the millions given by Hussein to homicide bombers? You do realize that the War on Terror is not just directed against the ones who flew the planes, right?
Oh yeah, you are still struggling with the concept of dealing a WMD blow without the use of ICBM's, aren't you? I'll have to slow down for you, you're having to digest some pretty big pieces, I understand. Better yet, wasn't I ignoring you as you have difficulty with untwisted fact and history?
Stop reading those silly Moore books, throw away your Babs records, put down the bong and pay attention!! And another thing, quit drinking that cheap beer and get the good stuff. Remember, quality, not quantity.
Merry Christmas.
Originally posted by Springer
It would serve you WELL to learn from Master Crowne the difference between Propaganda and FACTS. At least when Thomas finds it necessary to hurl a "propabomb" he is INTILLECTUALLY HONEST enough to acknowledge the fact.
Unfortunately your ilk NEVER does, and I fear you actually BELEIVE the tirpe! Additionally, your ilk NEVER admit BULL# after it is exposed in broad day light, flies and all...
MERRY CHRISTMAS!
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BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Guerrillas detonated a powerful bomb in a busy Baghdad shopping district on Sunday, killing a U.S. soldier and two Iraqi children, and another U.S. soldier died in an attack on a convoy west of the capital.
The ambushes came a day after coordinated suicide bomb, mortar and machinegun attacks in the holy city of Kerbala killed 19 people -- five Bulgarian and two Thai soldiers and 12 Iraqis -- the deadliest strike on foreign troops since the capture of Saddam Hussein.
The Baghdad attack, which targeted U.S. vehicles driving through the Karada shopping area, wounded five American soldiers, eight members of the Iraqi Civil Defense Corps and an Iraqi translator.
"A soldier from the 2nd Armored Cavalry Regiment and two Iraqi children standing nearby were killed when the IED (improvised explosive device) detonated as a convoy was passing," military spokesman Captain Jason Beck said.
"At this stage we don't know how serious the injuries are."
Beck said the explosion occurred at around 10:15 a.m. (2:15 a.m. EST) when the streets of Karada, a bustling area of shops and stalls, would have been crammed with people.
Northeast of the flashpoint town of Falluja, another bomb attack on a convoy killed one soldier from the 82nd Airborne Division and wounded three, the U.S. Army said.
MOUNTING DEATH TOLL
The attacks raised to 212 the number of U.S. soldiers killed in action since Washington declared major combat over on May 1. Attacks appear to be continuing at a consistent pace despite the capture of former dictator Saddam Hussein on December 13.
more at
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