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by Charles_Jaco from St. Louis

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Random thoughts this week on Iraq:

 

  • The New York Times publishes this article, detailing how the U.S. invasion and occupation of Iraq has recruited a whole new generation of suicide jihadis and has radicalized young men who previously were worried about girls and soccer, not suicide and jihad. It's a must-read for anyone who wants to know why things are going so badly.

 

  • Tim Lomparis, political scientist, Vietnam veteran, and military analyst extrordinaire said during our seminar together at SLU a few weeks ago that withdrawing from Iraq suddenly would create chaos, instability, and pulverize the world's oil supplies. He said it more succinctly to the San Francisco Chronicle:

 Timothy Lomperis, a former military intelligence officer now at St. Louis  University, contends that leaving Iraq would only mean having to return again with 500,000 troops.

"The idea that we can redeploy away from the cities and let Baghdad turn into a swirling vortex of chaos and that any kind of negotiated solution is then possible is utterly naive," Lomperis said. "By 'redeploying' we will have created a Somalia, with the big difference that neighboring powers will be drawn into it like a whirlpool, with 50 percent of the oil on the world market, and bring our economy to its knees."

That is the chief argument to stay -- made many times before the Iraq Study Group, which still embraced a gradual, partial withdrawal.

 

  • If you live by the sports metaphor, you die by it, too. Rep. John Shimkus (R)-Illinois, a West Point graduate and deep thinker on long-term strategic affairs, used a baseball simile about Iraq and got pounded for it. Read a newspaper account here, and take a look at the congressman's appearance on Fox 2 here.

 

  • The first GOP debate at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library produced some disagreement on social issues, and as you'll read here, almost total agreement on staying the course in Iraq.

 

  • Operation Rat Trap in Iraq has been going after top leaders of al Qaeda. Helped by Sunni tribal chiefs who are sick of the religious fundamentalists, it seems to be going well so far.

 

 

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NIGHTPRWLR read my blog view my photos
May 4, 2007 | 5:58 PM

Operation Rat Trap is like giving a vasectomy to a priest,What's the point?

stlweatherfanatic read my blog view my photos
May 4, 2007 | 8:05 PM

JAco once again your far left views are spewed out to the open. You quote the LIBERAL sources:

Stltoday.com

The New York Times

the LA times

CNN

What about your own station fair and balanced Fox? You are a pathetic secular way trying to install your anti american thoughts on the public. You are a extreme leftest with an agenda and once again it clearly shows in ALL your reporting.

Cutter read my blog
May 4, 2007 | 10:46 PM

Jaco why , whats your point . Its very clear you hate the USA . Why don't you pack your socialist behind up and leave , I,m sure the French would love a souless fool like you . BY !

mike64 read my blog
May 4, 2007 | 11:57 PM

laffO JAckO

jaco,

you are a despicable human being.

Nailer read my blog view my photos
May 4, 2007 | 11:58 PM

So glad some one is going after Cheney.
The Iraq war was fabricated under his scrutiny.
It was reported by CIA agents that he was in the CIA office every day prior to the war coaching the agents on how to perceive information. They said prior to this the only time they ever saw a vice president was for a ribbon cutting ceremony.
I think Buch , Cheney and Rumsfeld should be in Iraq teaching their new government how to run a country. Their war... let them fix it.
How much is Iraq paying us to train THEIR soldiers ????

stlweatherfanatic read my blog view my photos
May 5, 2007 | 12:09 AM

nailer and jaco why do you hate america?

into the conspiracy theories eh?

PEGLEG
May 5, 2007 | 11:57 AM

stlweatherfanatic,mike64,cutter,nightprwlr,
i agree with your comments of jaco 100%
why foxslt.2 doesn't dump jaco & jc.is beyond me !!!!!!!!!!!!

joe_friday read my blog
May 5, 2007 | 3:53 PM

you can't be considered a reporter if you are using your own, personal bias to report a slated story. i always thought a report was not suppose to be a part of the news.it seems like it all that it is now, on any side, where instead of reporting all of the facts, what is reported is only what information supports that reporters views.

FREEDOMFREE read my blog view my photos
May 5, 2007 | 6:51 PM

POWER IN THE PEOPLE ,

POWER IS THE PEOPLE

KILLING THEM IS NOT POWER .

WERE IS FREEDOM?????

END THE WAR A. S .A .P .

DID YOU VOTE FOR WAR????????


VOTE NEW FREEDOM FREE , A. S . A . P. ,

WHEN YOU SEE , IRAQ FREE ,

SMILING PEOPLE , CAUSE THEIR FREE ,

SAME WITH ME , SMILE BUT CANT BE FREE ,

SO WRITE IN ME , FREEDOMFREE ,

CHANGE IT SEE , YOUR NOT FREE ,

VOTE AND SEE , NEW FREEDOM FREE ,

LIVE IN THE BEST QUALITY ,

FIGHT THE FEE , AND SHOW ME ,

OLD FREEDOM FEE , TO NEW FREEDOM FREE .

stlweatherfanatic read my blog view my photos
May 5, 2007 | 6:57 PM

yes jaco, this blog belongs on a far left website like moveon.org. Or a rosie o donnell blog not a fox one especially FOX reporter saying this!

jaco you have sunk to a whole new LOW. The vile filth you like that gets you going is ruining this country. You must stop, I'm calling you out on this one. Your extreme hatred towards this country and you pretending to be fair and honest using extreme left wing newspapers and sources to tell what you think is true in your own version. My brother is in Iraq and he knows all about you and the liberal media, he said thats not how it is over there. You are just a simple liar with an extreme liberal agenda, you dont know anything!

SGT_DUCE read my blog view my photos
May 7, 2007 | 12:34 AM

Im so glad to see people call a spade a spade or a crazy lefty a crazy lefty.Jaco and J.C. are America haters.Thank you stlweatherfanatic, mike64, nightprwler and peg leg.as far as freedomfree,you need to move to San Francisco with the other liberal loonies.You have no idea what freedom is or the price to pay.
Lets all take a step back and remember 9-11

SGT_DUCE read my blog view my photos
May 7, 2007 | 12:39 AM

To the concervatives who are reading this;go to my blogs and read about the 1963 comunist agenda,Jaco is a supporter of this. youll understand more after a quick read.

stlweatherfanatic read my blog view my photos
May 7, 2007 | 8:57 PM

Jaco you are a communist

Mutatis-Mutandis read my blog
May 13, 2007 | 6:56 PM

You know, all you guys do is badmouth Jaco and call him names like you are accomplishing something, when all you are accomplishing is making yourselves like like complete idiots.

You know, Jaco excersises his right to free speech and says what he beleives is wrong. He believes, like the majority of Americans, that this war was ill concieved and is now nothing buta disaster. Yet, you all badmouth him for sauing what he believes in, you critisize him for using free speech. It even looks like SGT_DUCE wants to go back to the McCarthy witch hunting days of the 60s. I think it is you who hate America and what it stands for, not is. I think you are the communists. Only a commie would want every single person to think the exact same way they do.
Here is an idea, rather than running your mouth on how Jaco hates America and is a communist, why don't you prove him wrong. You never do that, just whine and moan about what he says, and then do nothing. So, why don't you prove him wrong rather than act like a bunch of whiny little grade schoolers.

Mutatis-Mutandis read my blog
May 14, 2007 | 10:43 PM

Yeah, that is pretty much what I thought. Run yor mouths constantly, but what happens when someone asks for some proof? Nohing. Typical.

stlweatherfanatic read my blog view my photos
May 21, 2007 | 9:51 PM

proof? proof of what? i just listed all the proof needed, jaco is a far left loon nothing else to it. my history teacher said he is the most bitter war fearing person out there and has no sensibility or intelligence to conduct himself other than to be a paranoid anti american freak. just like you mutatis

Mutatis-Mutandis read my blog
May 28, 2007 | 2:16 AM

Your history teacher? Wow, what an excellent source of information, because teachers are never wrong!

stlweatherfanatic read my blog view my photos
Jun 9, 2007 | 1:25 AM

i guess u must hate teachers

that is the sort of liberal bias jaco gives off.

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