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2009

President Obama Takes the Middle Road on Iraq Troop Drawdown
by James Phillips
February 27, 2009 (The Foundry blog)
President Obama must act prudently to avoid squandering the hard-won security gains of the Bush Administration’s surge policy. In the future, he must listen closely to his military commanders and listen less to politicians in Washington who wrongly concluded that the war in Iraq was lost.
Getting the Big Ideas Right: The Strategic Concepts that Helped Achieve Substantial Progress in Iraq.
http://www.heritage.org/Research/MiddleEast/hl1101.cfm

Iraq's Elections: A Win for Prime Minister Maliki and the United States
By James Phillips
February 9, 2009 (WebMemo #2281)
Iraq's January 31 provincial elections were another important milestone on Iraq's long and difficult journey toward becoming a stable democracy.
1) A Vote for Security
2) The results were a win for pragmatic nationalism over sectarian ideologies.
3) In addition to strengthening Prime Minister Maliki, the elections boosted Sunni Arab representation in provincial governments, an encouraging development for the bottom-up development of stable representative government.
4) There's a need for a Continued U.S. Security Role.

The Obama Administration must not become complacent and imprudently withdraw all U.S. combat forces within 16 months, as Obama pledged to do during his run for the presidency. Such an early withdrawal could pull the rug out from under a young democratic government and increase the risk that Iraq will slide back into chaos. That is not change that Americans--or Iraqis--can believe in.
http://www.heritage.org/Research/Iraq/wm2281.cfm

I`m for the withdrawal of the US soldiers.
BUT, it´s too late for that no matter what the US does...
So yeah...Obama has avery very complicated situation over there...

What seems to be complicated is to have one finish what one starts and to do it as best as can be done...I.E.: c-o-m-p-l-e-t-e-l-y....tuff werd.......

Indeed...

You Yanks have such a high opinion of yourselves!

The only reason you want to stay there is because you want to try to calm those Iraqis down so they and their progeny don't exact revenge on you quite as harshly as they most certainly would if they had the opportunity to do so now.

But nothing's going to be enough to enable peaceful relations between Iraqis and Americans if even half the truth remains uncensored.

Of course you can get out. And this is the wise option. Just get out from where you don't belong and the process of forgiveness and recovery can at last begin.

mael wrote:You Yanks have such a high opinion of yourselves!

The only reason you want to stay there is because you want to try to calm those Iraqis down so they and their progeny don't exact revenge on you quite as harshly as they most certainly would if they had the opportunity to do so now.

But nothing's going to be enough to enable peaceful relations between Iraqis and Americans if even half the truth remains uncensored.

Of course you can get out. And this is the wise option. Just get out from where you don't belong and the process of forgiveness and recovery can at last begin.

Your full of rotten sushi. Iraqi's aren't about to avenges us. The pig Islamic Fanatics will try. Bauble head.

You would encourage chicken hearted behavior. Today we just acquiesced more control to the Iraqi....to bad were not in a chicken hearted hurry to tear dat ass oughta there like the Great B.O. has finally realized would be r-e-a-l stooooopid; like some other we-e-e-e-enies we know very well would do.

Real Americans DON'T BOW to Saudi rats nor apologize for their Country NOR criticize with a fake ass introverted imitation of humility; which happens to be about the greatest asinine act of supreme arrogance by some self absorbed; self-appointed savior of the worlds woes that certain sniveling and truth twisting libertines have declared their personal Messiah could possibly commit...but then many wonder how real he really is. Stick your opinion about our opinion up your opinion.

Don't even jerk face about our pride like the sickening fart babble apology about our arrogance by Dear Pirate in Chief. Some of us k-n-o-w we're good. Damn good. I.E. one alive captain 'n' a couple o' dead pirates (for which Messiah gets undeserved credit for by the A.P. who are so spin doctor stupid); one free Iraqi with toe holds that will hang around to keep it that way, unless Messiah is r-e-e-a-l stupid. If you can do it, it ain't braggin'. Nothin' arrogant about it onion breath. We can; we did; and will do it again right before your gutless wonder stuper faces.

You'll find a fistful of us 'yanks' still have enough heart ta see right thru the trail of hell we killed off and leave it still breathin' and good (like now) for freemen and liberated (a nice western change I might add) women of Iraqi to use profitably. Your gutless politikal eye has a turd in it...can't stand the fact that we WON a toe holt in the craziest most insane spot on the planet and gave it a good shaking. Our first GREAT move was ridding the place of the one that has killed off more Iraqi and Iranians than any other maniac in recent history TO DATE - it is sans Sodom Insane today Fish Face. ...and little buggered up roaches with weird and strange nationalistic cultural racist pukness ideologies, not unlike you, have been swept away....and you know what Bubba? It f-e-e-e-l-s-z-z-z r-e-e-e-a-l g-o-o-o-o-d to WIN.

Butt brains like you would call it quits about now, but as in a darkened cave full of sightless bats, all you hear are the chirps and screeches; creeps with politikal turds in their gutless eyes don't see the engrossed threat that slobbering meal werms blame on all but the ones that are the pricks and pigs of the day (short the white collar money pigs you and your juxtaposed ilk let slide by in our economy - and I Blame you as well 'cause your breathin' apathy like the rest of the narrow minded; self serving; selfish baby bottle to grave socialist bean brains, anarchists and liberal lab rats that beg excuses; justification and rationalization for reasoning)...the pricks and pigs that are the real irritation and remain a threat--->> just One suicide dirty bomber by Islamic radicals would just tickle your sickening self. Not all Muslims that you and your juxtaposed quixotic libertine moon bats feel free to ASS_UME0 conservatives mean, but terrorizing thieves of serenity of a mere million or two in a sea of billions, not unlike the white collared neo-americun biz pigs and others world wide that raped this planets fiscal serenity.

Thieves like these don't forgive in the midst of their shame; they slash back in retaliation with lies and venom at others because of their own self inflicted embarrassment of pride if given half an inch to save their wretched skins. Or maybe because their just plain nuts. Such is your great virtue.

Real Americans DON'T BOW to Saudi rats nor apologize for their Country NOR criticize with a fake ass introverted imitation of humility

one word for that. Bullshit.

that was the biggest load of sh*t i've ever seen.

If you can do it, it ain't braggin'. Nothin' arrogant about it onion breath. We can; we did; and will do it again right before your gutless wonder stuper faces.

Is that why you have so many `accidents`? Is that why you keep losing?

What beach was it in WWII that you lost three or four time? Wait a minute, that’s most.

You’re `navy seals` (I still haven’t figured WTF they are, every one seems to be one ) are nothing more than foot solders compared to royal marines let alone SAS or SBS.

You are nothing. Get that through your head. I hate the EU so much but even I’ve got to admit that the EU army (witch I hate) is bigger than the USA’s armed forces. If the EU wanted to they could shut down the borders and become commies (witch I don’t want, but I can see it coming) and the rest of the world would shrivel and die.

The USA are little boys with a gun.

It´s funny...
They don´t want to bow before the Queen.
But they wan the whole world to kneel before them?
Double standards anyone?

But they’re Americans. They’re the chosen ones.

It was set in stone by god you know.
God’s English though - Church of England - you don’t have church of the French of yanks do you. In turn god must be English.

Yes God is American,English,French,Arab,Latino,Nazi,Racist etc etc...
What a wonderful God isn´t it?