I'm almost speechless

[warrior1]

I'm without speech.

I can't begin to tell you how much this pisses me off.

From www.msnbc.com



This must be the ten reason given for staying/going/being in Iraq. They have no shame.

[hobbit709]

1. So now Iraq is a "Protectorate"?

Where have I seen this rationalization before? Of course if I specify someone will invoke Godwin's Law on me.

[MannyGoldstein]

2. You Have to Admit That It's A Brand New Concept

The article indicates that Petraeus has proposed a revolutionary concept - as the Iraqis are better able to provide for their own security, we can withdraw gradually. Sort of "We'll stand down as they stand up". It's brand-new - I've never heard of it before - but it just might work.

[Benhurst]

14. Yeah. Sure.

Will it give us enough time to steal all their oil?

And set up permanent military bases?

Little wonder 57 percent of the Iraqi people think it's all right to kill us.

[meegbear]

3. That's why we're there ...

we're protecting the Iraqis from the Iranian Al Queda terrorists who have weapons of mass destruction they got from Saddam Hussien who was going to use them on Americans with Osama bin Laden. I think ....

[mod mom]

4. NPR just reported Hunt Oil signed a contract w the Kurds. I think they left off O I L from

that headline.

[IndyOp]

5. Their public relations team tests a new phrase and the one that sways the most

people in the testing room is the "new mission" -- there are never any new missions, there is just new propaganda.

:puke:

[warrior1]

6. Cover photo changed

General seeks bigger role in protecting Iraqis
Petraeus proposes shift from fighting violence to ensuring residents’ safety

[bdamomma]

7. how sick, imagine a soldier in our own homes watching us.

it is coming to that.

[annabanana]

9. And this is an "improvement" how?

We should station a fully armed man in every Iraqi house?

[ananda]

15. Isn't that how organized crime works?

nt

[babylonsister]

8. I am, too. nt

[Chimichurri]

10. Protecting Iraqis? What, as we kick in their doors and put their

men in jail to be disappeared for who knows how long?

Already the number of Iraqi prisoners has increased from 6,000 in 2004 to 60,000 in 2007 with an increase of 50 per cent in the number of Iraqi prisoners held in US military jails during the "surge".

http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/160735B8-6995-44FA-9891-274A29CF60E5.htm

[Canuckistanian]

11. They have to destroy the country to save the country

It's like Vietnam on Steroids.

[Fly by night]

12. Protecting Iraqis from THEMSELVES. America -- the ultimate enabler

Enabling Iraqis to depopulate their country fast

Enabling terrorists to attend a graduate course in IEDing what's left of our military

Enabling Halliburton and the many other multi-thousands of Rethug contractors to get rich

Enabling Cheney to train his Blackwater army before they start "protecting" Americans from ourselves

Enabling the corporate media to keep sucking Bush's ass (without the privacy of a bathroom stall)

Enabling faint-hearted Democrats to accept yet one more "just one more time" promise from our Practicing Alcoholic-In-Chief

Enabling the dissolution of our own government through arrogance, ignorance, impotence and ennui.

America -- what we need is a "false patriotism and futile gestures"-anon.

Because this American is getting mighty restless, irritable and discontent at this moment. And when enough of us fall off the "just let the system work" wagon, there will be hell to pay.

At that moment, Bush will bring this war home, and the "enemy" will look a whole lot like us.

[ThatsMyBarack]

13. Protecting??

:wtf: I always thought it was torturing.

[rhiannon55]

16. First, we kill 'em

then we "protect" the ones who survived.

What good guys we are...:sarcasm: Let's all pat ourselves on the back now....Yay Amurka!