Entire Ramadi police force resigns

[phusion]

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-insurgency26jan26,1,5568632.story?coll=la-headlines-world&ctrack=2&cset=true

Don't know if anyone saw this. Looks like things are going great!

"Four days before the landmark Iraqi national election, U.S. officials and their allies are bracing for fresh insurgent attacks with far less of the optimism that marked previous milestones.

After a round of killings in Ramadi, the capital of Al Anbar province in the Sunni heartland, word came Tuesday that the 1,000-member police force had abandoned its posts, the latest flop of the U.S.-sponsored security services.

Two months before the Ramadi police walkout Tuesday, three-quarters of the 4,000-man police force in Mosul left the job in the face of a rebel offensive."

[babylonsister]

1. Let freedom ring! Not

[liberal43110]

4. Or as George Bush mangled that expression:

Let freedom reign. He is so idiotic that it is embarrassing.

:eyes:

[Mojambo]

2. If I were in their shoes it wouldn't have taken me this long to quit!

Talk about crappy jobs.

[katinmn]

3. Unlike *, I pray the voters just keep their heads down on Sunday

Stay home. Turn off the lights if you still have them. Wait for it to be over. Bush is gonna pick your leader no matter what. Stay out of harm's way if you can.

[ultraist]

14. I hope people know to stay home and not risk their lives for...

a BOGUS election. Our soldiers are sitting ducks all so Bush can play dress up and pretend that he has "spread freedom."

[catmandu57]

5. But kindasleezy said

there were 120,000 Iraqi NG to take care of things.

[BrotherBuzz]

10. Nah, she said we trained 120,000 Iraqi Guard....

but she very conveniently neglected to inform us that a vast majority of them have abandoned their posts. Deception by omission! Wiggle room, don't you know?

[htuttle]

6. "Oh Christ, gonna need some more IGC guys I guess"

[KC21304]

7. But Chicken George has the gall to

tell the Iraqi people they should get out and vote. Just to save his cowardly ass. What a despicable bunch we have here.

[txaslftist]

19. How about flak jackets for voters?

You know, sort of a lend-lease program for ordinary Iraqis?

Since there's no cops and all...

[Spazito]

8. During the Condi hearings, it was said there were only...

4000 Iraqis fully trained so I guess we can now reduce that to 3000 and counting. One has to wonder where all the money went that was supposedly going to the training. Oh, geez, forgot that Halliburton probably has the contract on that too.

[CottonBear]

9. Resign or die? Hmmm? Resign! n/t

[oasis]

20. Don't worry, everything is under control. Now if we just knew who is doing

the controling. :shrug:

[Cocoa]

11. liberal media bias

why doesn't the LA times write about all the cities where the entire police force didn't resign?

[katinmn]

15. they're all dead. don't you read the papers?

[KissMeKate]

12. Republicans chose a failure for the job of commander in chief.

they should be ashamed. Soldiers are dying because of their vote for incompetance.

[oasis]

13. Things are starting to go bad in Iraq since Condi's no longer "in charge".

:eyes:

[matt819]

16. The madman may have planted the flag of freedom

But there sure are an awful lot of people pulling up that darn thing and stomping on it.

[katinmn]

18. have you see the poo flags?

They're pretty disgusting so I won't re-post it.

Just a picture of * on a little yellow flag which people -- around the world now -- are placing in piles of dog poo.

[txaslftist]

17. But...freedom's on the march!

Next stop minam..myami...mymanar...myanmar... Aw, y'all know...that outpost of evildoers...used ta be called Berma?