US AND THEM: US, UN & Iraq, version 8.0

.. "Major combat operations is now over" was the most stupid statement made by any president.

cicerone imposter wrote:

.. "Major combat operations is now over" was the most stupid statement made by any president.

I highly doubt that's the case.

Quote, "I believe "I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Monica Lewinski." was far stupider. Oh, and "Read my lips... NO NEW TAXES!" was pretty stupid as well. Oh, wait, that whole "fool me once..." thing was also stupider."

Clinton's statement didn't harm anybody. Bush's statement ended up costing this country lives and billions. If you can't reconcile this in your brain to understand which is more stupid, you're a lost cause.

Quote, "I believe "I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Monica Lewinski." was far stupider. Oh, and "Read my lips... NO NEW TAXES!" was pretty stupid as well. Oh, wait, that whole "fool me once..." thing was also stupider."

Clinton's statement didn't harm anybody. Bush's statement ended up costing this country lives and billions. If you can't reconcile this in your brain to understand which is more stupid, you're a lost cause.

How about "Bring it on."

Think that little dare to our enemies has cost lives, McG?

Should Bush condemn and retract his own statement?

Cycloptichorn

Monday, May 30, 2005
War News for Monday, May 30, 2005

Bring 'em on: British soldier killed by IED and four injured in al-Amarah.

Bring 'em on: Twenty five sacked ex commandos queuing for back pay killed and one hundred injured in twin suicide bomb attack in Hilla.

Bring 'em on: Iraqi police general critically injured after attempted assassination in Kirkuk.

Bring 'em on: Leader of largest Sunni political party, considered a moderate, arrested along with his three sons and four guards in Baghdad.

Bring 'em on: Two Iraqi police sergeants working for the Iraqi Cabinet gunned down in Baghdad.

Bring 'em on: Fifty insurgents launched a sustained attack on Sunday on the detention center run by the Interior Ministry's major crimes unit in Amariya, according to an unconfirmed account by an Amariya resident who was reached by telephone, insurgent bands roaming the district after the battle claimed to have captured weapons from the detention center's armory.

Bring 'em on: Five suicide bombs in six hours kill twenty members of Iraqi security forces in Baghdad.

Bring 'em on: Oil infrastructure attacked on the outskirts of Baghdad.

Bring 'em on: South Korean base comes under fire in Irbil.

War Crimes: It emerged yesterday that up to 11 members of the Queen's Lancashire Regiment could be charged under war crimes legislation enacted in 2001 after the establishment of the international criminal court. The soldiers would face trial in the UK under the ICC act.

Averting Civil War: Iraq's religious leaders are intensifying efforts to heal the rifts between the country's Sunnis and Shias amid a spate of sectarian killings that has raised fears of civil war. A weekend meeting between senior figures from the Sunni Association of Muslim Clerics and the Shia Badr Brigades - the militia of the Supreme Council of Islamic Revolution in Iraq, the biggest Shia party - sought to ease tensions caused by the killing of at least 14 Sunni clerics in the past month.

Doctors Leaving: In the past year, about 10 percent of Baghdad's total force of 32,000 registered doctors, both Sunnis and Shiites, have been driven from their jobs, according to the Iraqi Medical Association, which licenses practitioners. The exodus has accelerated in recent months, said Akif Khalil al-Alousi, a pathologist at Kindi Teaching Hospital and a senior member of the association. The vast majority of those fleeing, he said, are the most senior doctors.

The Interior Ministry has already responded to the threats: It simplified gun license procedures for doctors. They can get licensed weapons faster than other Iraqis.

Dr. Omar al-Kubaisy, one of the doctors who stopped going to work at the cardiac hospital after he was threatened, kept going to work at his own clinic, watched over by his 23-year-old son Ali, who stood guard with a large and always visible semi-automatic gun. But last week, Kubaisy, one of Iraq's top cardiologists, left for France.

Emergencies are nonstop. Civilian deaths have jumped five-fold since the new government took power late last month. One physician estimated that about 250 Iraqi doctors had been kidnapped over the past two years. The simple quest for money which fuels the country's serious, widespread kidnapping industry appears to be the biggest motivation.

How about "Bring it on."

Think that little dare to our enemies has cost lives, McG?

Should Bush condemn and retract his own statement?

Cycloptichorn

See above.

Daring our enemies to attack can hardly have life-saving consequences, don't you think?

Cycloptichorn

"Anybody who wants to harm American troops will be found and brought to justice," Bush said. "There are some that feel like if they attack us that we may decide to leave prematurely. They don't understand what they are talking about if that is the case. Let me finish. There are some who feel like the conditions are such that they can attack us there. My answer is, bring 'em on."