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The Melodies Of McLOVIN - Iraq
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From Julian Manyon on the NewsHour, Aug. 14th, 2008:
A Russian colonel told me that his troops are ready to march on the capital, Tbilisi, if they get the order to do so. "If the Americans can take Baghdad," he said, "we can take Tbilisi."
DAVID MANNING
From: Matthew Rycroft
Date: 23 July 2002
S 195 /02
cc: Defence Secretary, Foreign Secretary, Attorney-General, Sir Richard Wilson, John Scarlett, Francis Richards,
CDS, C, Jonathan Powell, Sally Morgan, Alastair Campbell
IRAQ: PRIME MINISTER’S MEETING, 23 JULY
Copy addressees and you met the Prime Minister on 23 July to discuss Iraq.
This record is extremely sensitive. No further copies should be made. It should be shown only to those with a
genuine need to know its contents.
John Scarlett summarised the intelligence and latest JIC assessment. Saddam’s regime was tough and based on
extreme fear. The only way to overthrow it was likely to be by massive military action. Saddam was worried
and expected an attack, probably by air and land, but he was not convinced that it would be immediate or overwhelming.
His regime expected their neighbours to line up with the US. Saddam knew that regular army morale
was poor. Real support for Saddam among the public was probably narrowly based.
Obama wipes his forehead at a Montana campaign event in May.
McCain's handlers think they were owned. Photo-analysis suggests that Barack Obama may have been play-acting when he pulled out a hanky and patted his forehead at a campaign appearance in Montana two months ago. And the two lost months may cost McCain the election if the candidate, who is known for his volcanic temper, has a Nixonian moment of perspiration during the Presidential debates this Fall.
It's all part of a game of hot potato that the two camps have been playing, trying to stay cool under the constant glare of media scrutiny. Until today McCain's people believed they were going to win because Obama had fallen for the Republican's challenge to visit Baghdad, where the average high this month is 115 degrees. But then the news reported: "No sweat."
The confirmation was contained in today's AP story about Obama's suspicously frequent workouts, in which photo-journalists were quoted as saying that:
"even when he shot hoops earlier this year with members of the University of North Carolina varsity men's basketball team, they didn't see Obama sweat."
The report has the McCain campaign in a panic, for what was suspected and feared is now confirmed: Obama is cool, literally as well as figuratively. It's not just that he made the cover of Rolling Stone, GQ and Vibe. They knew McCain didn't stand a chance going one-on-one against Obama for the Metromale vote. That was a given. But it's the image of McCain as a sweaty old guy who turns off Hillary Clinton's women voters they were counting on to win that has them worried.
Sources who did not want to be identified because they are not authorized to discuss the sensitive subject confirm that a hush-hush project code-named "Operation Bikram" has been launched from an inconspicuous office at Republican National Committee headquarters. GOP operatives are simultaneously scouring the aisles of drug stores nationwide to find the most effective anti-perspirant and reviewing comparison tests of moisture wicking underwear. Separately a top-secret team of technicians, specialists in heating and cooling, is ready to move in and take over any debate venue that registers above 65 degrees.
These precautions are all intended to manage McCain's known tendency to get hot under the collar at the slightest provocation. And when really provoked McCain is known to breathe fire and sweat bullets. "It's hard to get John to cool off after one of these incidents," says an old family friend. "But that's why he has been so happy with Cindy, becuase he knows that at the end of the day he'll go home to an ice-cold Bud."
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On November 29, 2002 on CNN’s Late Edition, Sen. McCain said, "We’re not going to get into house-to-house fighting in Baghdad. We may have to take out buildings, but we’re not going to have a bloodletting of trading American bodies for Iraqi bodies....I don’t think it’s easy, but I believe that we can win an overwhelming victory in a very short period of time."In contrast, Obama made a prominent speech around the same time, October 2, 2002, in which he said, "But I also know that Saddam poses no imminent and direct threat to the United States, or to his neighbors, that the Iraqi economy is in shambles, that the Iraqi military a fraction of its former strength, and that in concert with the international community he can be contained until, in the way of all petty dictators, he falls away into the dustbin of history. "I know that even a successful war against Iraq will require a U.S. occupation of undetermined length, at undetermined cost, with undetermined consequences. I know that an invasion of Iraq without a clear rationale and without strong international support will only fan the flames of the Middle East, and encourage the worst, rather than best, impulses of the Arab world, and strengthen the recruitment arm of Al-Qaeda." Obama correctly foresaw the consequences of the biggest foreign policy blunder in American history. McCain won't even support vets after the bloodletting? Which candidate do you think is more "naive on foreign policy and not as qualified to lead the military?"
When my son started calling Baghdad the "city of fire", I knew it was time to stop watching the nightly news when he was present. We don't see those fiery images as much as we used to. The surge is working; Iraqis are happier five years on. But that doesn't mean we should stay indefinitely. I believe Barack Obama has the best plan for Iraq, "to be as careful getting out (of Iraq) as we were careless getting in".The Jewel of Reconstruction in Iraq
In the first days of the war, many Iraqi government buildings were destroyed in the area now known as the Green Zone. In their place now stands the new United States Embassy. It is set to open this spring, at a cost of $736 million, covering an area of 104 acres (the size of Vatican City), making it the largest U.S. embassy in the world. It will have its own power generation and water treatment plants while 88% of Iraqis lack adequate electricity. It is a sad commentary that the most expensive, most massive reconstruction project in Iraq is for us.
Then: Iraqi Planning Ministry bombed on March 20, 2003:
Now: part of the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad
BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- Sen. John McCain arrived in Baghdad on Sunday, the U.S. Embassy confirmed, marking his first trip to the war-ravaged nation since becoming the presumed Republican candidate for president.
John McCain arrives at Baghdad's International Airport on Sunday.
McCain traveled there with Sens. Lindsey Graham, R-South Carolina, and Joseph Lieberman, I-Connecticut, both of whom serve on the Armed Services Committee with McCain, the committee's ranking member.
The visit was unannounced for security reasons, but McCain's office had indicated he planned to go there.
The trip was McCain's eighth to Iraq since the U.S.-led invasion five years ago.
All three senators are outspoken advocates of the "surge" strategy -- sending additional troops to Iraq -- and McCain has credited the strategy with reported dips in violence there.
Also, Graham and Lieberman are high-profile McCain supporters.
Critics question whether U.S. taxpayers are bankrolling a campaign junket. McCain campaign aides have openly said they hope the trip shows him to be authoritative and comfortable on the world stage.
Gen. David Petraeus, the top U.S. military commander in Iraq, and U.S. Ambassador to Iraq Ryan Crocker, will return to Washington to testify before the committee next month, providing their assessment of the security and political situations in Iraq.
A detailed itinerary for the Senate delegation has not been released for security reasons -- routine for such visits. However, the senators are slated to meet with Petraeus and Crocker, and Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki.
The senators also will visit Jordan, Israel, Great Britain and France during their trip.
ARTICLE- http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2007/11/29/iraqi-lawmakers-walk-out-_n_74615.html
My friend from highschool is working hard in one of the most dangerous places in the world for an american. He's in Sadr City, Baghdad Iraq and he's been there for over 3 months. His way to connect with family and friends is myspace and now the military leadership has decided the solders shouldn't get this privlage anymore.
So who knows how many more letters we'll be getting from him in the future, but I'm glad this one got through.
Poetry from a soldier on the front line :
Look at this sun battered face, beaten down by this desolate place. but i only survive because of your sweet grace, remembrance of home now a distant place. each day drags on and the memories get old, did they really exsist or are they someone elses stories told. If i could go back, there would be so much i would change, i would not be here not in this place, but we all must eventually pay for our mistakes. For to get to heaven you must first pass through hell, endure some of the pain in from which the heavens fell. Every breath that we take in is a precious gift from above, but for whom we share them breaths with is a novel of true love. Blood cut form my vein a taste of my true life, exsistance to maintain, taking it just one breath at a time, but the pain will always keep me alive. Bullets flying overhead, explosions in the distance another innocent one dead. Blood spilled on this desolate ground, fighting off all the dizzieness that we have built in our internal shell. A place god forgot, but a place us soldiers know as hell. the only thing that we have is each other in this place, living of one anothers strength. If one goes down a piece of us all will fall, once again answering blindly to our dumbass presidents call. the majority of us have lost all reason that we are here, just a reason for our loved ones to shed another tear. But we fight on day after day, until we can go home and there just stay, feeling the warm embraces of the ones we hold dear, putting away our worldly cares. Home sweet home the words that we yearn to speak, instead of being in this place beating our feet.......love and miss you all...... - American Soldier in Iraq
Family members reported to CAIR that Hamed Ali Al-Hanooti was kidnapped and murdered yesterday in Baghdad. Al-Hanooti was the brother of Sheikh Muhammad Al-Hanooti, a Muslim leader and scholar in the Washington, D.C. area.
Hamed Ali Al-Hanooti was the father of six children.
"To God we belong and to Him we return," said CAIR Executive Director Nihad Awad. "We offer our sincere condolences to the family of Hamed Ali Al-Hanooti and ask God to grant them patience in this time of adversity."
