How's Them Wars Goin'?

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Registered: 10-20-2008
How's Them Wars Goin'?
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Mon, 10-20-2008 - 6:28pm
A fair bit of interesting news out of both Afghanistan AND Iraq over the weekend and today. Let's start with everybody's favorite armed conflict, Iraq!

BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- Thousands of people marched in central Baghdad on Saturday to protest a proposed U.S.-Iraqi security agreement that would extend the presence of U.S. troops in the country after the end of the year.

The political party of Iraqi cleric Muqtada al-Sadr called for the rally. At one point, several speakers at a podium addressed the mass of people, urging the Iraqi government to reject the proposal.

Protesters clogged several streets in the capital, waving Iraqi flags and kicking up dust. The demonstration, the largest in Baghdad in several months, was largely peaceful.


Hmmm....."thousands" doesn't really accurately describe EXACTLY how many hearts and minds we're winning over there. Oh, well.....surely, things must be better in Afghanistan, right? Erm.....maybe not so much:

TALIBAN militants have seized a civilian bus in volatile southern Afghanistan and executed up to 31 passengers, beheading some of them.

The attack took place in Kandahar province, which was the home base of the militant Islamic movement before it was toppled by a US-led invasion in late 2001.

The incident illustrated the extreme danger of travel in the Afghan countryside, even along main roads such as the one where the bus was commandeered, officials said on Sunday. Many of those aboard the bus were women and children.


I dunno....not sure this is where we wanna be, when considering offering St. Senator Maverick "Bomb-Bomb" McBush the Oval Office. Or, said in reverse, I don't think we wanna be offering the Oval Office to McSame, when THIS is where we are right now, whether we want to be or not.

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iVillage Member
Registered: 10-14-2008
Mon, 10-20-2008 - 6:30pm
Sounds like the same old, same old from the same old, same old.
iVillage Member
Registered: 10-20-2008
Mon, 10-20-2008 - 6:35pm

Gotta agree with you there: this DOES sound like some of the same stuff we've been hearing for at least five or six years, courtesy of Preznit Bush and the Rubber-Stamp Republican Congress™ of 2001-2006.

Hoping that we're going to be hearing less of it in the near future, though.... ;o)


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Registered: 10-09-2008
Mon, 10-20-2008 - 6:39pm

How terrible it is! Damn, if they just had Hussein (not Obama) and the Taliban back, things would be so much better! 50 million people liberated from oppressive regimes, but I know Barack will do better.


Wait, they are protesting in the streets??? I thought you couldn't do that in Iraq? How do you figure they got the right to do that???


iVillage Member
Registered: 10-20-2008
Mon, 10-20-2008 - 6:49pm

What part of "Iraqis want us the heck out" did you not understand?

What part of "dozen-plus-beheadings" did you not understand?


iVillage Member
Registered: 10-09-2008
Mon, 10-20-2008 - 7:04pm
HUH? Ahh.. duh... ahhh wht prat of it should I be not understandt??? How's them wars goin?
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Registered: 03-25-2007
Mon, 10-20-2008 - 7:04pm

< What part of "Iraqis want us the heck out" did you not understand?


What part of "dozen-plus-beheadings" did you not understand?>


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Registered: 09-26-2008
Mon, 10-20-2008 - 7:06pm

If things are all flowers and candy why this??



Iraq tops list of asylum seekers



Published: October 20, 2008


GENEVA, Switzerland, Oct. 20 (UPI) -- The U.N. refugee agency said that despite a decline in the number of asylum-seekers from Iraq, the country continues to top the list.

The Office of the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees said in its most recent report that the number of asylum-seekers from Iraq dropped 18 points to 10 percent compared with 2007. Those numbers, however, still made up more than 12 percent of all asylum applications to industrialized nations, the report said.

UNHCR said 20 percent of Iraqis had filed for asylum in Sweden in 2007, with Germany, Turkey and the Netherlands close behind. Sweden, however, has shifted its position on asylum applications, resulting in more Iraqis turning to Germany, where application levels increased fourfold from 2007 levels.

Regarding displaced Iraqis, the UNHCR in September called on European nations to do more to host Iraqi refugees, as the country is not yet safe enough for the estimated 2 million displaced persons.

The UNHCR report, released Friday, says the number of asylum petitions for the first half of 2008 from Iraq, 19,500, was more than the combined totals from countries with the second- and third-highest levels of asylum seekers: Russia, 9,400, and China, 8,700.


iVillage Member
Registered: 09-18-2008
Mon, 10-20-2008 - 7:47pm
My BIL is in Iraq now and says things are so much better than you read in the MSM. I stopped reading all the negative stuff since he's been there.
iVillage Member
Registered: 07-03-2008
Mon, 10-20-2008 - 7:50pm
Your BIL probably knows better than to say anything negative.
iVillage Member
Registered: 10-18-2008
Mon, 10-20-2008 - 7:53pm
The $10 billion dollars a month of spending

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