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Evidently, Zarqawi is about as proficient with an automatic weapon as Michael Moore is about sticking to the South Beach Diet.
But here’s the part I find most interesting, via Belmont Club, who quotes war skeptic Barry McCaffrey, just back from Iraq:
The foreign jihadist fighters have been defeated as a strategic and operational threat to the creation of an Iraqi government. Aggressive small unit combat action by Coalition Forces combined with good intelligence—backed up by new Iraqi Security Forces is making an impact. The foreign fighters remain a serious tactical menace. However, they are a minor threat to the heavily armed and wary U.S. forces. They cannot successfully stop the Iraqi police and army recruitment.
Compare this to a document ABC claims to have obtained in a raid of a Zarqawi safe house, which, as Allah notes, reveals:
[p]retty much the same stuff AQ has been doing all along  provoke sectarian tension by killing Shiites  except the emphasis is on Baghdad now. But here’s the interesting part:
The document complains that the losses of American forces in Baghdad “are hardly worth mentioning†compared to American losses in the Western provinces. And, in the concluding paragraph, the document says the “rank and file†of the mujahideen in Baghdad know their leadership does not have “a broad view†or “a well-knit plan†and that “this has led to strategic losses for us.â€Â
Dare I say it? It sounds like … a quagmire.
Heh. Good stuff.
…that is, were it not for the fact that these are all obviously CIA PLANTS MEANT TO DISCREDIT THE THOMAS PAINE OF IRAQI FREEDOM FIGHTERS!
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More here, here, here, here, here, and here.
Iraqi “Freedom Fighters”: free to fail, like Air America without the IEDs.
C’mon. Can we really believe General Mac? I mean, Mona and General Greenwald say we’ve lost and its a civil war.
Silly jihadi! You let the Zionists get you!
Why wear infidel gear when you can sport glorious communist approved halal kicks? Support muslim economies!
Same with the “resurgent Taliban”. Used to rule all but 10% of the country. Now they manage a few shoot and scoots, when they aren’t being killed by the Canadians, Afghans, Americans, et al. Compare their position in September of 2001 to now… VICTORY IS CLOSE AT HAND, SO SAYS MULLAH OMAR!
In Iraq – Z-Man is starting to resemble his Iowahawk personna a bit more every day. THE CRUSADERS WILL DROWN IN BLOOD! Er…yeah.
So how long before AQ itself dumps the failed “Emir of Iraq” in our laps to try to get us to slack off…?
Slate has the whole McCaffrey memo as an Acrobat file, along with Fred Kaplan’s “decoding” of it. “Decoding” is apparently defined as cherry-picking quotes that fit your conclusion, which is then jammed into McCaffrey’s mouth. My favorite clause: “Whether or not McCaffrey meant to imply as much…”
I thought he was the Patrick Henry of the patriotic opposition? Better get my history book back out.
My word was soviet. Does that mean I’ve been invited to leave?
Zarqawi looks a little pudgy, too. Must be tough to keep to your fighting weigh hunching down in a rat hole eating Twinkies.
Fareed Z in Newsweek just had an article that AQ was defeated in Iraq– just in case, you know the quagmire sucks the bad guys down instead of Chimpy’s Boys.
Aww, what the hell
http://www.thepeoplescube.com
You Hitchenesque swilling swine and provencial oafs, Zarqawi and the noble mujahideen don’t have a “well-knit plan” because in that part of the world that’s women’s work.
Al Qaeda is defeated in Iraq, which is why the Iranians are doing the Baghdad Bob routine: “We have special invisible submarines! We have big missiles! We have a gazillion suicide volunteers!” They’re scared crapless because they know that their restive population is watching the Iraqis slowly emerge into democracy.
The mullahs and jihadis shot their wad in Iraq. They did everything except set off a nuke, but the Iraqis and the U.S. military didn’t blink. The gutless U.S. Congress blinked, and sixty percent of the idiotic American public blinked (and whined, and bleated, and gnashed its teeth, and spread digusting lies), but the ones who counted were steadfast.
The strong horse, indeed. And don’t kid yourselves–the middle east knows it. That’s why they’re not rushing to fund the new Hamas government in “Palestine.”
We keep getting hassled by the Left because
we have not “Got” Ben Ladin and Zarqawi, but
has anyone noticed
We seem to be doing REAL GOOD at scooping up the #2s #3s &4s etc.
Maybe we don’t WANT to get these number one guys because they are too useful in identifying and rolling up the networks underneath them?
If you want to hunt Tiger, first tether the Goat.
Question: is it a coincidence that this happened so soon after Mary McCarthy was unmasked as a traitor? It seems awfully convenient.
This will be good news. Round another corner!
To Paraphrase Dan:
Old Ram: Hey Junior. Lookie there at all those pretty Ewes agrazin’ down in the valley….
Young Ram: Dyam’ Pop…Would you look at that…Hey….Lets run down and bag one of those beauties…
Old Ram: Hold it Junior….
Young Ram: Whats-a-matter Pop…Chicken…
Old Ram: Nope….but I say we walk down and bag them ALL……
Civil war! Quagmire! Troops are broke! Surrender! No blood for oil! My car needs a tuneup!
Sincerely,
Kerry, Dean. Durbin, Zarky, Osama, and “all the others”
I will dance with joy and exultation when Zarqawi is sent to his infernal reward with an American or Iraqi bullet.
But, for the time being I am quite pleased with the progress that has been made.
Bravo, America! Yet one more country owes their freedom and liberty to the USA. (I hope it’s Iran’s turn next.)
You have a great point, Dan. If we keep picking up the 2s, 3s and 4s but not the 1s, it really does make you wonder if we know how to get the 1s, but we’re not reeling the 1s in to get all the rest of the management.
It’s funny how the left’s talking points progress…
First, “They lied! There were no WMDs!
2nd, it was “We’re in Iraq to take their oil!”
3rd, it was “Quagmire! Quagmire!”
Now that the provable items 2 and 3 are looking to be false, they’re back to “They lied! There were no WMDs!”
Well, y’know, maybe the Democrats were right all along. There was a quagmire in Iraq. They just had the sides mixed up, y’know?
No confusion. The Democrats’ favored side is in a quagmire, and they would like the US to pull out to fix the situation.
Hey, where’s Dr. Vic? You’d figure he’d sprint over to this thread to piss in our Wheaties.
To give but one example
An underground ammunition bunker was discovered with chemical artillery shells, but no chemicals in the shells (Never stored filled for extended periods of time, but lets not confuse the dear little tinfoil heads)
In the bunker they also discovered 55 gal drums of Insecticide CONCENTRATE
Guess what the difference is between Nerve Gas and Insecticide concentrate?
But since the drum were NOT labeled Nerve Gas the bunker did not count as a WMD discovery?
And we ALL know that insecticides are normally stored in undergroun ammobunkers next to chemical warfare artillery shells don’t we?
Dan,
Yup. I used to have to go into a 40 foot deep bunker at the old Edgewood Arsenal in Maryland, just to get a can of Raid. Man, you should have seen what we kept the roach foggers in!
Personally, I hope we catch him alive. I bet he’s got details about WMD and Saddam’s ties to Al Qaeda that will make the moonbats blanche.
Anyone seen General Barry on TV recently? I haven’t.
Odd.
– Moon`Bat’ – Pronoun – small groups of Lunar loons, characterized by blanched complexions emphasizing zits, a vacuous stare with large round eyes, closly spaced beneath short sloping foreheads, and tiny black pupils.
– Known habitants, Coffee houses on the edges of College campuses gather, and anywhere media camera’s can be found. Typically gather each night when the great Marxist Pumpkin rises out of the Delusion patch and shout:
“A Century of failures proves nothing!”….
– Generally prohibited from handling sharp objects or being left alone with small animals.
That’s how I do it. No way I’m keeping all that in the house.
I think what you’re forgetting about Saddam is that, not satisfied with just pioneering democracy and womens’ rights in the Middle East, he also worked dilligently to improve Iraq’s environment. As we all know, chemical weapons can harm ground water and eventually ruin fragile river and marsh ecosystems, and so should only be stored as precursors in concrete bunkers. Also, Saddam was very keen to help deal with overpopulation.
His only crime was caring.
Charlie (Colorado),
It’s amazing too that every day I check the Washington Post and the NYT, and have yet to see any reference at all to the report.
Thank goodness we have professionals in the media to filter information for us and to decide for us what’s news and what isn’t fit to print.
regards,
Neil
tw: Like, where are all the trolls?
Chairman Me: thanks for the laugh!
Well, I guess we have a winner…