THE US, THE UN AND IRAQ, ELEVENTH THREAD

Ask Mysterymann who had been there.
I was there and my views are not based on political attachment.
The fact is this.
There are less Christians in Iraq now after this invassion and more terroriasts are active( both organized and disorganized terrorists)

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice mocked anti-American cleric Muqtada al-Sadr as a coward on Sunday, hours after the radical leader threatened to declare war unless U.S. and Iraqi forces end a military crackdown on his followers.
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"I know he's sitting in Iran," Rice said dismissively, when asked about al-Sadr's latest threat to lift a self-imposed cease-fire with government and U.S. forces. "I guess it's all-out war for anybody but him," Rice said. "I guess that's the message; his followers can go to their deaths and he's in Iran."

However, the U.S. military insists the campaign is not aimed at the mainstream Sadrist movement but against criminals and Iranian-backed splinter groups.

"We've made it very clear that the Mahdi Army itself ... is not the enemy," said Maj. Gen. Rick Lynch, commander of the 3rd Infantry Division, which controls a large region south of the capital. "The enemy is Sunni extremists, Shiite extremists and Iranian influence."

ixcan
be not a blind intellectual.
I had been there to know the first-hand information
and one more observer of this A2K form was there on duty.

Your retort to my above observation based on personal views are unsalable if not pathetic.

"Fewer Christians are fleeing Iraq now than when you were there, Ramafuchs.

Fewer Christians are being mass murdered in Iraq now than when you were there.

Fewer terrorists are active in Iraq than when you were there..

I can type some nonsense with my barbaric EngliBUSH

For me one death is too much.
whether the death is caused by the flag waving invaders or secretly paid criminals.
USA has no business to torture, humiliate humanity in the name of personal interests or security..
I feel extremely sorry for those who were misled and lost their life.
Violence begets violence.

I beg you as the author of this thread to make a short visit as tourist to see the reality.
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Turkish army strikes PKK group in northern Iraq

Ankara: Turkish warplanes have fired on a group of rebels of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) in northern Iraq, the army said is a statement on Thursday.

The statement came a day after a military source said at least four Turkish military jets bombed Kurdish separatist targets inside northern Iraq.

The Turkish military staged an eight-day incursion in northern Iraq in February against the Iraq-based PKK.

Thank you sir.
I beg you to read this article whish is 60 percent of the reality.

"The Agenda Behind the Hoax
What the Iraq War is About
By PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS

http://www.counterpunch.org/roberts04232008.html

some 300,000 U.S. troops are suffering from major depression or post traumatic stress from serving in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and 320,000 received brain injuries.

Turning to Iraqi deaths, expert studies support as many as 1.2 million dead Iraqis, almost entirely civilians. Another 2 million Iraqis have fled their country, and there are 2 million displaced Iraqis within Iraq.

"Our" government has still not told "we the people" the real reasons "our" government invaded Afghanistan and Iraq.
Instead, the American sheeple have accepted a succession of transparent lies: weapons of mass destruction, al Qaeda connections and complicity in the 9/11 attack, overthrowing a dictator and "bringing democracy" to Iraqis.

The fact is that Bush invaded Iraq with the intent of turning Iraq into an American colony. The so-called government of al-Maliki is not a government. Maliki is the well paid front man for US colonial rule. Maliki's government does not exist outside the protected Green Zone, the headquarters of the American occupation.

Aide to Iraq's al-Sadr: Threat of open war aimed at US

BAGHDAD - An aide says the radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr's threat to unleash a full-scale war applies only to U.S.-led forces.

Last week, al-Sadr warned he would declare "open war" if the government did not end its crackdown against his fighters.

Sheik Hassan Al-Edhari says al-Sadr is appealing to Iraqi soldiers and police "not to support the occupiers in combatting your brothers."

But he says al-Sadr's "threat of an open war until liberation" is meant as "a war against the occupier."

Al-Edhari read the message during Friday prayers in Baghdad's Sadr City.

Overnight clashes in Sadr City between U.S. and Iraqi forces and Shiite militants killed seven people, hospitals officials said on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak to the media.

Quote:

Aide to Iraq's al-Sadr: Threat of open war aimed at US

BAGHDAD - An aide says the radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr's threat to unleash a full-scale war applies only to U.S.-led forces.

Last week, al-Sadr warned he would declare "open war" if the government did not end its crackdown against his fighters.

Sheik Hassan Al-Edhari says al-Sadr is appealing to Iraqi soldiers and police "not to support the occupiers in combatting your brothers."

But he says al-Sadr's "threat of an open war until liberation" is meant as "a war against the occupier."

Al-Edhari read the message during Friday prayers in Baghdad's Sadr City.

Overnight clashes in Sadr City between U.S. and Iraqi forces and Shiite militants killed seven people, hospitals officials said on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak to the media.

source

I respect your candid authoritative rebuttal to my quote without any personal source or any referential links.
The fact is this.
Mission accomplished was the statment from the commander in-Chief.
Why USA's half educated, unfed, ill-equiped Generals are there ?
To spread non-viloence?
To educate the people with English?

Extremely sorry.

I scream, you scream, we all scream for icecream!

Let their be some birds to sing the indivual songs.
Let us not crush the singing bird to silent the music.
Rama