Is There Still A War In Iraq?

[leftchick]

It has been over a week since I have heard about anything from Iraq on my TV. No more car bombing, assassinations, kidnapping and sectarian strife I guess. No more dead Iraqis and US soldiers? I wonder if the average faux viewer has noticed this?

[Cooley Hurd]

1. According to Countdown last night, attacks are up 40% in two weeks...

...it's actually gotten WORSE, if you could imagine that. :(

[leftchick]

4. I have been following Iraq news on the web

it is the folks that don't that concern me. Do they think it just went away? :shrug:

I heard the term anarchy used describing Iraq from two different news sources the day before Israel's new war. That sure did get quashed.

[liberal N proud]

2. Pretty good diversion the Israeli's are putting up eh!

[SammyWinstonJack]

5. **u$hco is grateful.......distract and divide....and it's working AGAIN.

:banghead:

[liberal N proud]

17. Makes me wonder, did the Israeli government do this to help bu$h

and the republicans?

The attacks by Israel were based on a couple of kidnapped solders. Israel claims they were kidnapped by Hezbola and then starts attacking civilians in Lebanon.
Far worse things have happened than kidnapping a couple of people and no attacks, why these two??? Could it be that poor George and his cronies were down in the polls and couldn't divert the attention away from the disaster in Iraq any longer? They needed some outside diversion because outside of another 9/11 type attack they could not keep the support of a war in the Mid East going.
So poof, Israel attacks Lebanon, bu$h blames Syria and Iran and the support for expanded war will build and he can fulfill his PNAC agreement.

Just a thought or two.

[H2O Man]

3. On May 1, 2003

we officially Won the War. Perhaps you missed the Leader saying this. Hostilities ended, according to the Rules. Some cheaters and sore losers continue to make trouble, however.

[Solly Mack]

7. How's the rest of that go again? Oh yeah - "winning the peace"

The mind wobbles

Hi, H2O Man!

[H2O Man]

8. I like to remind

my republican friends about that "the One Man who can bring peace to the Middle East" business they were chattering about during the last campaign.

[Solly Mack]

9. Exactly

Some people get so tetchy though, when you take them down memory lane...

[H2O Man]

14. I've found that

most of them blame "the troubles" on VP Cheney. I tell them that they are half-way to the truth. Once one recognizes the puppeteer is is a creep, it doesn't make sense to try to focus on the good qualities of the puppet.

[Solly Mack]

16. Precisely

Excellently put!

[leftchick]

28. damn!

someone really thought that about bush? Now that is crazy.

[ProfessorGAC]

21. Well, If That's True. . .

. . .then what we would be "cutting and running" from? If the war is over, there would be nothing from which to cut & run! No?
The Professor

[whistle]

6. Yes, of course, just hidden behind the attention diverting headlines

...of tribal wars between Israelis, Palestinians, Hamas, Hezbollah and Lebanon:

http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/07/18/dobbs.july19/index.htm

[LisaLynne]

10. If there is a war, but no news coverage, does it exist?

Apparently, we're being shown once again that only one news story can exist at any given time. :shrug:

[bigtree]

11. meltdown

coming soon to your local muse station

[MiaCulpa]

12. Is there still a war in Iraq?

The media may not be covering it, but the troops certainly
are, and it doesn't match the rosey picture the white house
would like to paint:

http://miaculpa.blogspot.com/2006/07/theyre-really-tough-on-speeding-in.html

The youtube wars.


Nice to join y'all here, hope to be part of much discussion on
the war.  

[TheCowsCameHome]

15. Welcome! Pull up a chair and join the real world

[MiaCulpa]

18. Thanks!

Great crowd here. :)

[madokie]

20. Welcome to DU. I just checked out your blog and I see you will

fit right in here. Again welcome.

peace
:hi:

[lonestarnot]

22. I thought it was a war on terra, therefore no specific local. That thing

in Iraq is an exercise, not a war. We don't need to hear about no stink'n exercise. :sarcasm:

[madokie]

23. what I want to hear is what time we run his hinneyness out of DC on a rail

and at what outpost the tar and feathering is to be.
:hi:

[lonestarnot]

24. Still fucking waiting! I rounded up a stick!

:hi:

[newyawker99]

29. Hi MiaCulpa!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[TheCowsCameHome]

13. You wouldn't think so judging by the news reports (or lack thereof)

[johnlal]

19. Is there still a war in Afghanistan?

Is the government still listening to our phone calls without a warrant?
Is there still a Guantanamo Bay? Has anybody been tried yet?
Is gasoline still over $3 a gallon?
Are we going to get screwed by the gas and electric company again this winter?
Is Halliburton still taking our money?
Are there still campaign-finance-criminals representing us in Congress?
Is Bush still promulgating his "signing statements" when he enacts legislation that he will never follow?
Is the TIA program still up and running?
Do we still have the new Bankruptcy Law?
Does Karl Rove still have a security clearance?
Is Dan Rather still in exile?
Are there still high levels of arsenic in our drinking water?
Have they raised the minimum wage yet?
Is the National Debt still spiralling into the trillions?
Are there still Neocon Bushist Loyalists on the Supreme Court?
Is John Bolten still our UN Ambassador?

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

25. "Things are going very, very, well in Iraq" Gen. Peter Patch

Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

[bdamomma]

26. yes, and it is growing worse.

[DemReadingDU]

27. Israel/Lebanon is very serious, but

I always wonder when the media diverts our attention from Iraq to something else, what is it they don't want us to know about?

Did that report come out yet about the massacre in Haditha?