Posted on 09/18/2005 1:24:48 AM PDT by AntiGuv
BAGHDAD, Iraq - Insurgents killed a Kurdish member of Iraqi parliament, his brother and the driver of his car and wounded a second lawmaker in an ambush on their convoy north of Baghdad , police and officials said Sunday.
Faris Nasir Hussein, a member of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan party, was killed in the attack Saturday night, along with his brother and their driver, said Peshro Ibrahim, a National Assembly official.
Ibrahim said another PUK lawmaker, Haidar Shanoun, was wounded in the same attack near the town of Dujail, 50 miles north of Baghdad.
ZarCowards push is on and his desparation is starting to show.
These vermin, for the most part, are non-Iraqi. For the most part they are coming in via Syria.
The U.S. must deliver an ultimatum to Syria, and, if they fail, create a bombed out no-man's land along the Syrian side of the Iraqi-Syrian boder - anything that moves there is dead.
I'm pretty sure that has been delivered already, and Syria is protesting vocally that it is innocent. But Assad the younger is probably got a pretty good pucker factor these days.
There was an op ed in yesterday's WSJ (yes, it publishes on Saturday now) by one Melik Kaylan, who is identified only as writing a book on "the recent democratic revolutions for ReganBooks). He suggests that the Iraqi borders should be mined. The location of the mines could easily be recorded for later removal, and the mined area could be clearly posted to prevent innocents getting hurt accidentally. Sounded good to me.
When we invaded Iraq, was there a plan to block the Syrian border or did we assume somehow that Syria would do it for us?
After reading that column, I hope mines are part of it. Do you recall whether the Iraq-Syria border is one of the places they found tunnels? I don't know much about mines, but I'll bet they could be "planted" in layers -- sort of like spring bulbs, at different depths, so that somebody tunneling would take the chance of running into one. As I said, though, I don't know much about mines.
Words and their usage are interesting.Note how the Already Puked (AP) uses the word "gunmen" in the headline and then magically changes the gunmen into "insurgents" in the first sentence.
Hmmm... gunmen, insurgents. Is that like "terrorists?"
We assumed Syria would do it for us.
"He suggests that the Iraqi borders should be mined."
Agreed. US mines can be deactivated anyway without even being removed.
Handling Border problems isn't Bush's strong point.
I don't think that strategy alone works long-term. The Romans tried it in Germany.
Instead of a purely static defense, you need punitive retaliations to back it up.
Put up the border defenses in Iraq - after blasting Syria back to the stone age, and creating enough destruction Iran to prevent futher development of their nuclear program and allow any dissidents to drive out the ayatollahs and take over.
But don't bother to send in American troops or dollars to help put Syria back together again.
Let the Syrians rot until they evolve into humans.
Let the Iranian revolutionaries remove the current leaders and use Iran petroleum dollars to rebuild the destroyed infrastructure and, if they wish, provide them with financial and technical assistance.
The foregoing is the only solution to the immediate problem.
Then we can switch focus to the Wahhabists in Saudi Arabia and deal with them next.
Let the Syrians rot until they evolve into humans.
"Let the Iranian revolutionaries remove the current leaders and use Iran petroleum dollars to rebuild the destroyed infrastructure and, if they wish, provide them with financial and technical assistance.
The foregoing is the only solution to the immediate problem.
Then we can switch focus to the Wahhabists in Saudi Arabia and deal with them next."
Let me focus part of the problem which is oil. WHEN we decide to move away from foreign oil, we can do these things. Until then, Iran is going to get away with whatever they want and we're going to let them. Syria is a different matter and one that can be handled almost at will. Right now, neither countries are afraid of us. We did nothing to them for 30 years while they attacked us by proxy.
So much for that speech Bush gave after 9-1-1 stating we would follow the "evil ones" wherever they went and any country giving them shelter.
The Syrians are amking it possible for these foreign killers to butcher American troops in Iraq while we can only sit there and take the punches.
We MUST destroy Syria.
Delenda est Syria.
"So much for that speech Bush gave after 9-1-1 stating we would follow the "evil ones" wherever they went and any country giving them shelter.
The Syrians are amking it possible for these foreign killers to butcher American troops in Iraq while we can only sit there and take the punches.
We MUST destroy Syria.
Delenda est Syria."
In the bible, it is either the prophet Isiah or Ezekial that says that Damascus will be totally destroyed in the end of the age, never to be rebuilt again.
"In the bible, it is either the prophet Isiah or Ezekial that says that Damascus will be totally destroyed in the end of the age, never to be rebuilt again."
Maybe we should be the arm of God.
"Maybe we should be the arm of God."
You bet. Religions like to paint a picture of God zapping armies and physical white horse of Christ coming down and decimating armies. Look at WWII. Good triumphed over bad. Some of the little published but critical turns in the defeat of the Axis to me were truly miraculous. Some examples were the Battle of Britain, the African Campaigns, Hitlers decision to invade Russia, Hitlers decision to use jet fighters for bombers instead of air-to-air combat, etc.
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