Posted on 08/09/2007 10:55:46 AM PDT by bnelson44
this week’s cover story of Der Spiegel-- titled "Baghdad Babylon: SPIEGEL-Reporter with U.S. Soldiers in the Iraq War," provided an unexpectedly upbeat assessment of the current surge strategy in Iraq. For three weeks in July, Der Spiegel reporter Ullrich Fichtner and his photographer traveled across Iraq under the auspices of the U.S. military to get a first-hand impression of the situation on the ground. Online, the 15-page in-depth Iraq trip article titled "The Hellish Peace" is only available to Spiegel subscribers:
During an online-chat yesterday about his recent trip to Iraq, Ullrich Fichtner provided the following assessments:
"I think that the current troop surge provides a real opportunity for progress that could make a difference [in Iraq]." […]"One can say that the entire North, the Kurdish areas, but also the rural areas around Baghdad are no longer war zones."
(Excerpt) Read more at weeklystandard.com ...
No I don’t, sadly . . . and I’ll wager one needs to know German in order to find a larger one.
Iran still needs its ass kicked, though.
Then, Iraq would be just fine.
Team America. F*** yeah!
Its clearly Batman, Conan, Rambo, “someone” and then Xena.
It’s funnier in more ways than you might think. The Germans can’t simply use the “Bush is a cowboy” meme, because Germans love cowboy-stuff (movies, books, John Wayne, etc.).
I’d say it’s some gangster, but you can see Cheney’s wearing a glove. It’s throwing me off.
President Bush dressed up as Rambo and flanked by Colin Powell as Batman, Donald Rumsfeld as Conan the Warrior, Dick Cheney as the Terminator, and Condoleezza Rice as Xena, the Warrior Princess
I’m hearing rumblings about a lot of action with Sadr’s goons in Baghdad
I just heard some "rumblings."
From the very direction of Sadr City. ;-)
Again.
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