Post-colonial Iraq
So things sure are changing in Iraq now that we’re no longer “occupying” the country. The UK’s Mail is reporting that al Qaeda is claiming responsibility for last week’s attack that left more than 60 Iraqis dead while our President was taking his Iraq victory lap;
An Al Qaeda front group in Iraq has claimed responsibility for the wave of attacks that ripped through Baghdad on a single day last week, killing 69 people and raising new fears about the country’s future.
A suicide car bomber and multiple roadside bombs hit the capital’s mainly Shi’ite areas on December 22 in the first attacks there since U.S. troops withdrew from Iraq on December 18.
Meanwhile, Muqtada Sadr-linked legislators are calling for a new election to oust the colonial government of President Maliki according to the Washington Post;
Sadr remains a popular figure among Iraqi Shiites and for years championed the U.S. departure from Iraq. On Sunday, he listed 10 problems with the ongoing feud between the prime minister and Hashimi. Number six was that it could “lead to forgetting about the people and their suffering.”
Separately, in Najaf, a radical group long accused by the United States of attacking U.S. forces said it would join the political process — and possibly run candidates for parliament.
Our biggest failure in Iraq will end up being the fact that we left Sadr amongst the living.
Category: Terror War
How about the significance of the Obama Administration’s betrayal of the Mujahedeen in Iraq? They would oppose Sadr.
Clearly, Obama wants Iraq to fall under Iranian domination.
Obama has systematically betrayed our allies, while aiding and abetting our eneies. It’s so cool to have our first black president.
God I wish we’d killed Sadr when we had the chance. Well actually we had about five chances. And actually he turned into a little bitch boy every time he actually fought Americans. . .
We won the war, and they lost the peace.
Sadr being killed may not have solved many problems, but it would have been a net plus.
@1 – So many substance free talking points in one post! One might start to think that you’re on the payroll…or you’re a candidate.
Care to expound on your irrational assertions?
BTW, you use the Muj in a context diametrically opposed to the use by anyone who’s served in theater.
I used to love reading Mookie’s pronouncements exhorting the faithful to kill the infidels from the safety of his refuge in Tehran. Reminded me of Reg briefing the People Front for the Liberation of Judea “I will not be accompanying the assault force due to an old football injury”
#3 – If you were in country in any capacity other than a water boy, you would know that the People’s Mujahedeen Organization of predominantly Shiite Muslim served gallantly and courageously alongside Hussein’s forces in Iraq’s 1980 to 1988 war with Iran, and, consequently, they were marked for extermination by Iran.
Following Operation Iraqi Freedom, also, they were persuaded to disarm and to assist U.S. and allied forces, under our protection, and among other capacities, they served as invaluable interpretors. Now that they are disarmed and betrayed by the Obama Administration, they can’t defend themselves against the persecution to which they are being subjected. You would know that if you served in Iraq, you ignorant and neurotic blowhard.
“context diametrically opposed to use by anyone who served in theater”, huh? HA HA HA HA HA HA You are so full of shit.
Uh yep…good ol Mookie….the roughest, toughest son of a biotch eva…to hide his butt in Tehran.
@5 – It’s hard to tell if you’re just a garden variety troll or an honest to goodness poseur. Perhaps both.
Those who actually served know the Muj, at least you’ve proven you don’t.
You mean the MeK. The group of itinerant assclowns at Ashraf. Yeah, Obama’s the one who’s hanging them out to dry. Guess that whats you get when you depose the counterweight to Iran and install a regime friendly to Tehran. You’re going to have to work overtime to try and pin that one on Obama.
By the way…..why the ignorance of the anti-American terrorism of your glorious ‘Peoples Mujaheddin’?
I see it was too much to ask for any semblance of substance for your earlier diatribe. I’m not surprised. Intellectual cowardice runs side by side with blind parroting.
Come on…sack up tough guy.
Ben was right: You are a compulsive and pathological liar.
Run along, junior. This is a website for rational adults.
And yet you can’t seem to conjure up a lie. Or a fact.
So sad…you’re a poseur and a pussy.
Um yeah, that made sense …, and effective, too. he he he
So you really can’t back up anything you spew? Really? You come on a big boy site and try to use big boy words, and then….nothing?
Someone’s not getting their money’s worth from your peddling of talking points.
(yawn) whatever …………………….. he he he he he
What C.I. has working for her in her favor is that she is already so ditzy that, as she grows older and gets dementia, nobody will be able to tell. 🙂
“HEY, MISSION ACCOMP… oh, wait.”
“Our biggest failure in Iraq will end up being the fact that we left Sadr amongst the living.” We actually had him in custody once(I rememeber the Brits have something to do with it.), and we should have pressed for his arrest for the death of Khoei.
I should have mentioned on my last point there, that Sadr somehow negotiated his way out of that near capture.
Sadr is really not an important player in Iraqi politics. So before everyone gets all butt hurt I served in Desert Storm and a couple of Intrinsic Actions deployments to Kuwait. I only write this cause everyone seems to embellish their service time to try give credibility to their opinions. Sadr and his group can are contained in Sadr City cause there’s nothing there but a ghetto. He can only muster up support from the poor Shiites and from donations from the Iranians. Killing him would have only him a martyr. If the Iraqi government starts throwing out the Iranian groups that rebelled against the Iranian Islamic revolution that can lead to even greater instability in the region and is something we have to watch out for.
@17 – I concur that Sadr isn’t going to make or break Iraq…I would not so easily discount the parliamentary bloc that OMS controls in the CoR.
18# I concur.
#7 – [Every] point in your post was bullshit, you liar.
You never have your facts straight, and with good reason:
You make them up as you go along, you liar, embellishing
on your lies with more lies without a twinge of conscience.
The Mujahedeen in Iraq are Iranian exiles. In fact,
they are the [only] Iranians who have actively fought
to overthrow Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and the Mullahs in
Iran, and they fought (and died) alongside U.S. and
Brit forces in Iraq and in Afganistan, serving as
interpreters, also, [and] they were the people who
first apprised us of the developing nuclear program
in Iran …, only to find that they are now disarmed,
abandoned and left defenseless by the Obama Administration.
If you had served in country, you would know that, you liar.
You fool. All of your wacko opinions are based [entirely]
on your wishful thinking, on contrived, bogus bullshit
(a.k.a., lies), on exaggerations, on distortions, and,
of course, on your neurotic rationales wiich reinforce
your neurotic delusions. Your every comment here proves
that Liberalism is, indeed, a mental illness indigenous
to retards.
#17, #18 & #19 – Bizarre.
Sadr could break Iraq, or at least shatter the peace. Right now the peace they have is tenuous at best, not helped out by the fact that Iranians are still screwing with them.
If ol Mouqy throws a temper tantrum (as he is apt to do) he could cause enough damage that it would be very difficult to fix.
Don’t forget that the Kurds are still looking for an out.
@20 – I don’t know you’re displying confusion or delusion, but it’s intriguing nonetheless. Perhaps I’m just curious to find out who’s payroll you’re on.
I find it odd that someone who attacks everyone who disagrees with him, as liberals…that you would so blindingly support a leftist terror group who espouses an odd mix of Shi’a and Marxism. A group who killed American service members and civilians in the ’70s. The terror group hosted and supplied by Saddam Hussein…our enemy when the previous Administration invaded Iraq in 2003.
http://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/monographs/2009/RAND_MG871.pdf
It’s also odd that while you dare not blame the GOP for anything that has ever befallen the nation, you ignore the fact the the previous Administration not only disarmed [of all heavy weaponry and armored vehicles] and interned MeK at Camp Ashraf in 2003, but as late as 2007, continued to designate MeK as a terrorist group, stating “MEK leadership and members across the world maintain the capacity and will to commit terrorist acts in Europe, the Middle East, the United States, Canada, and beyond.”
http://www.state.gov/s/ct/rls/crt/2006/82738.htm
In short, nothing you say is true, provably so. MeK is a cult of assclowns. MeK didn’t serve alongside coalition forces; their status was relegated to the Iraqi Parliament during the last administration; you can’t source any of your bleatings, and you can’t pin their status on the Obama Administration, at least without laying equal responsibility at the doorstep of the last.
I would await your rebuttal, but let’s face reality shall we? You haven’t had the stones to source any of your other bumper sticker talking points. If you have ever served in uniform, you’ve shamed yourself.
There can be adult conversations on the issue of delisting MeK, but you’re not equipped to be a part of them.
CI: He’s a sniper, but instead of picking folks off one by one, he’s pissing people off, one by one. Have fun.
#23
You continue to affirm my belief that you’re psychotic.
Just to satisfy my curiosity, I checked with Wikipedia,
and sure enough, just as I suspected, I saw that you’re
gleening info selectively, deliberately neglecting to
tell the whole story. You can’t help yourself: You’re a
compulsive and pathological liar, embellishing on lies
with more lies. Too funny in a weird kind of way. You
are a genuine, authentic psycho, not just an ordinary,
run-of-the-mill, garden variety, loopy loony. Go see a
good psychiatrist, you psycho. You’ll feel better, and
your neighbors will feel safer, and while you’re at it,
get a life, too, you creepy, little loser. TTFN. 🙂
#24 – Ah, the blowhard and bullshit artists speaks.
Why am I not surprised that you two creepy, little
cockroached have formed an alliance. Two-of-a-kind.
@24 – I know, but I had a little time to kill this morning. Trolls like this are a laugh.
Ooh, look…he checked Wikipedia!
BTW, dimwit, thanks for taking the bait. With your
sleazy sock puppets, you revealed who you are. 🙂
Is that Curt, posing as Brian? Or, is it Brian, posing as Curt? He checks in with Wikipedia, but can’t even post a link to what he “found” on Wiki? Wow, just wow.
#29 – Your comment was nonsensical gibberish.
Geezez, try to keep up. You just look stupid.
#29 – Since I got my info first-hand, I don’t need
to use Wikipedia. My point is that, since C.I. doesn’t
know squat about developments in the Middle East, that
liar has to get [all] of his info from Wikipedia,
and, even then, that liar selectively posts what he
wants fools like you to read, distorting info that he
obtained and neglecting to tell the whole story. Your
reading comprehension sucks. Our three-year-old is
quicker on the uptake than you are. Dayum, you’re dumb.
@29 – You’ve been free all along to disprove anything I’ve written, which ironically is backed up at the Wiki link that you admittedly had to check.
Remarkably, you’ve failed to do so.
Perhaps you’re the only one in the entire US military to have ‘served alongside’ MeK. Must have been ‘black ops’ as well, as there is no account anywhere of these operations.
I submit that we have a candidate for next years Phony Soldiers competition.
#32 – To any [rational] person, and the buzz word there
is the word, rational, I have made my points succinctly.
You continue to post incoherent, irrational gibberish ..
with a liberal sprinkling of lies so bizarre that they
show that you are nuttier than a squirrel turd. But no
matter. Keep babbling away here on these back pages. Its
comforting and a consolation to know that you are here,
instead of out in the real world going postal. TTFN 🙂
You remain free to disprove anything I’ve stated.
I find it telling that you can’t.