Spy Chief (McConnell) Warns Situation In Iraq Going The Wrong Way

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Some of these people need alarm clocks, 'cause they're Late, Late, Late!

will our Dems listen? This crackdown is a disaster it's just pushing the violence to other areas.

this just proves the flag wavers point. So things are going to shit and kids are getting blown up on soccer fields and our kids in uniform continue to die, and generals are threatening to quit if bush wants them to attack iran and our wounded kids at Walter Reed are sharing space with rats and cockroaches, and our helicopters are getting shot out of the sky and Britain is pulling out its troops. What's the freaking problem? Everything is just fine in Iraq, just ask rush; he's a military expert.

that couldn't possibly come back around and blow in our faces now could it?

Asking leading, rehearsed questions.

She's served.

Graham logged six-and-a-half years of service on active duty as an Air Force lawyer.

Apologies to real women everywhere.

:rofl:

who somehow is able to portray himself as some kind of military expert because he was/is a fucking military lawyer. Not quite the same level of human scum, as say, desktop warriors like Wolfowitz or Ledeen, but on the same team.

But he won't allow the sacrifices of those who have died or been wounded in Iraqnam to be in vain. So more will die. And many more Iraqis will, too.

Shoulda used the sarcasm smilie.

Who pushed a pencil as his wartime duty.



Cher

Last time I looked, Lindsay Graham was a guy.

nor do I want to, and nor do I care. He mixes refreshing truths with vile Neoconmanisms.

... if at all.

that a government official would say so.

Ok,Does that mean we can stop helping now?:sarcasm:

That has to account for something!
:sarcasm:

Next he'll tell us that cigarettes increase the smokers chance of lung cancer.

BAGHDAD (AFP) - Bombers slaughtered 18 Iraqi children playing football on Tuesday as a relentless bombing spree snuffed out dozens more lives and a US spy chief acknowledged that the crisis amounts to "civil war".

The children, aged between 10 and 15, died when a car parked next to a football pitch in the western Iraqi city of Ramadi exploded while they were playing, an Iraqi defence official told AFP.

~anip~

In Washington, Director of National Intelligence Michael McConnell told senators that the crisis was "moving in a negative direction" and that "the term 'civil war' accurately describes key elements of the Iraqi conflict."

"Unless efforts to reverse these conditions gain real traction during the 12-18 month time frame ... we assess that the security situation will continue to deteriorate at rates comparable to the latter half of 2006," he said.

more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070227/wl_afp/iraq_070227173936

we can still win this damn war. To put yourself in the Iraqi's shoes you need only ask one question: "What would we do if someone were to occupy our country?" They are not going to stop fighting the occupiers. That will be true of any Arab country that we try to take over. Wake up, spies. Look at the picture from the hearts of the people we are fighting.

The audacity of these idiots, feigning ignorance while pumping our backsides with a devious smile.

Sure is fun watching it dawn on the wingnuts one by one that their clipper has not only run aground, but is several miles inshore.

:eyes:

the only reason they played nice is because of saddam. once he was gone centuries of ideological/religious hatred was unleashed.

"...unless efforts to change that trend "gain real traction," the situation will continue to deteriorate."

That's like saying, unless it rains it won't rain.

that is hysterical!!!! That should be the bush motto!! I am sure he would mess it up, and stammer his way through it so it wouldn't be as funny.:puke:

We are now in the territory of DFICSS. Doubled Fucked in a Cosmic Sorta Sense.:evilgrin:

:shrug:

until after summer. Oh, yeah, that was just the truce that makes Iraq discussions off limits in the Senate.

are we now driving on the wrong side of the road on a one-way street or have things gotten worse?

aspirin or tylenol recommended before reading Sy Hersh's "The Redirection"

http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/articles/070305fa_fact_hersh?page=1

"Today, the only army capable of containing Iran" - the Iraqi army - "has been destroyed by the United States."

"Once you get them out of the box, you can't put them back."

"The Pentagon consultant had a different view. He said that the Administration had turned to Bandar as a 'fallback', because it had realized that the failing war in Iraq could leave the Middle East 'up for grabs'."

"In this process, we're financing a lot of bad guys with some serious potential unintended consequences. We don't have the ability to determine and get pay vouchers signed by the people we like and avoid the people we don't like. It's a very high-risk venture."


FUBAR seems as appropriate term as any.

What is the right way? If security and political trends were moving in a "positive" direction what would that look like? Would that mean that the entirety of the Iraqi population had succumbed and become a proper group of slaves (coolie labor) and that the oil was flowing into the pipelines of Western oil interests?

The premise of the US is "losing the war" or "things have gone astray" or the "war needs to be better managed" etc. is based upon the assumption that a War Crime can in some way be altered or staged in a fashion so as to cover up the crime.

And of course it is portrayed as "sectarian violence" by the disgusting US press and parroted dutifully by all manner of folk so as to blame the damn 'Injuns' who can't seem to quell their unrest.

The whole premise of this article is a crock.

Who knew?

idiot decided to invade the one place on this Earth where the people that live there kill each other over their history and religious beliefs. They didn't even need us to kill any of them. They've been killing each other for centuries but Bush is going to bring a democracy to them. And we haven't impeached this lying sack of Sh** because . . . ?

the sh%$head's sitting at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue? Iraq can only have disastrous consequences for any 'solution' that may be reached - more troops will die and get wounded - 100's of billions of treasure will be spent uselessly and somehow the Repugs will be able to have DEMS 'share' in this monumental blunder that Repukes enabled Chimpy and his minions to foster on the World.

Top US spy: Iran training Iraqis to use explosives
28 Feb 2007 20:58:45 GMT
Source: Reuters

Background
• Iraq in turmoil


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(Corrects attribution in paragraph one to "a top U.S. intelligence official" from "the top U.S. intelligence official") (Corrects paragraph 9 to read "Defense Intelligence Agency Director Army Lt. Gen. Michael Maples" instead of "McConnell" and makes attribution conform in paragraphs 11 and 13) (Updates throughout with quotes and background)

By David Morgan

WASHINGTON, Feb 27 (Reuters) - Iran is training anti-American Iraqi Shi'ites at sites inside Iran and Lebanon in the use of armor-piercing munitions blamed for the deaths of 170 U.S. troops in Iraq, a top U.S. intelligence official said on Tuesday.

In testimony before the Senate Armed Services Committee, newly installed U.S. intelligence chief Mike McConnell said it was "probable" that Iranian leaders including Ayatollah Ali Khamenei were aware that weapons known as explosively formed penetrators, or EFPs, had been supplied to Iraqi Shi'ites.

But he and other senior intelligence officials told a hearing on threats to the United States that al Qaeda remained the greatest threat facing the United States and had reestablished itself in Pakistan since being driven out of Afghanistan after the Sept. 11 attacks.

"We inflicted a major blow. They retreated to another area. And they are going through a process to reestablish and rebuild, adapting to the seams, or the weak spots," McConnell said in his first congressional testimony as the U.S. director of national intelligence.

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