Jun 24 2007

Clearing Of Baquoba, Iraq Nearly Complete

Published by at 9:13 am under All General Discussions,Diyala,Iraq

The clearing of al-Qaeda and the Islamo Fascists from Baquoba is nearly complete, which is much quicker than I think anyone expected:

U.S. forces believe the initial combat phase of a major offensive to clear al Qaeda from the Iraqi city of Baquba is nearly complete and any militants left could be confronted in the next 24 hours.

The operation in and around Baquba, capital of volatile Diyala province, is a major part of one of the biggest combined offensives by U.S. and Iraqi forces against the Sunni Islamist group in Iraq since the invasion of the country in 2003.

“We will either make enemy contact quickly, or we won’t,” Colonel Steve Townsend, commander of the 3rd Stryker Brigade, told Reuters and another news agency late on Saturday.
“My company commanders’ gut feel is that there won’t be a big fight here,” he said after a briefing late on Saturday with combat captains in the bombed-out remains of a building, once used by al Qaeda as a clinic, on Baquba’s outskirts.

Townsend said latest intelligence indicated some fighters were still inside an American cordon, which has been steadily tightened since the operation was launched on Tuesday, cutting off options for the militants to escape.

“They don’t have any choice but to fight … or put down their weapons and melt into the population,” Townsend said.

“The fight so far has gone a little easier than I expected. That does not mean there isn’t any fight left in them.”

It is possible al-Qaeda has melted back into the population or more were able to skulk out of the battle (maybe dressed as woman, as one or two have been know to do). But it is now clear al-Qaeda has lost its second declared capitol city of its modern caliphate. While the SurrenderMedia will ignore the importance of this, the PR damage to al-Qaeda in the Muslim world is clear. Two bravely proclaimed centers of the modern uprising of Islam’s take over of the world now lost to forces of the democratic Iraq government. How many people will be willing to die for a lost cause?

The truth is the tides turned on al-Qaeda because the Muslim street turned on al-Qaeda:

Two months ago, a dozen Sunni insurgents — haggard, hungry and in handcuffs — stepped tentatively into a U.S.-Iraqi combat outpost near Baqouba and asked to speak to the commander: “We’re out of ammunition, but we want to help you fight al-Qaida.”

Now hundreds of fighters from the 1920s Revolution Brigades, a Sunni insurgent group, work as scouts and gather intelligence for the 10,000-strong American force in the fifth day of its mission to remove al-Qaida gunmen and bomb makers from the Diyala provincial capital.

Each U.S. Army company in Baqouba, an hour’s drive northeast of Baghdad, has a scout from the Brigades, others have become a ragtag intelligence network and still others fight, said Capt. Ricardo Ortega, a 34-year-old Puerto Rico native of the 2nd Infantry Division.

The Army has given some of the one-time insurgents special clothing, a football-style jersey with a number on the chest, to mark them as American allies.

American commanders say help from the Brigades operatives was key to planning and executing a Baqouba operation, one of a quartet of U.S. offensives against al-Qaida on the flanks of the Iraqi capital.

The informants have given the American troops exact coordinates of suspected al-Qaida safe houses, with details down to the color of the gate out front, said Lt. Col. Avanulas Smiley, 40, commander of the 1st Battalion, 23rd Infantry Regiment and a Takoma, Washington native.

Most of the Brigades members, whom U.S. officials call “concerned local nationals,” hail from eastern Baqouba, while the bulk of the fighting has so far raged in western Baqouba.

But with contacts among fellow Sunni fighters on the city’s west side, they have fed American soldiers critical information about al-Qaida positions.

This is why the operation in Baquoba is going so quickly. The foreign fighters, with their bottomless brutalities, have become the enemy and the Iraqis are working to purge them. And that brutality was al-Qaeda’s undoing:

In the Anbar region, al-Qaeda’s former stronghold and the place where the “Islamic State of Iraq” was founded under the leadership of this organization, gunmen started to apply the Islamic Law as they understood it. The number of foreigners increased and so did the competition for booties. Clashes between those people and other organizations were inevitable. As for the Islamic Army, it is upheld by clans whose leaders, opposed to the “UN State”, were killed and whose children’s influence diminished, especially when al-Qaeda demonstrated that it is not fighting the Americans, but targeting Iraqis belonging to other sects, and that it allows the killing of anyone opposed to its orientations, even if he is against the occupation.

Amid this chaos, the US army found its goal. It established contact with the fallen victim clans of al-Qaeda, held meetings with the Islamic Army, and ordered the Maliki government to arm them. It was the Anbar Salvation Council that took the responsibility of cleansing the Anbar region of al-Qaeda. It started to repeat this experience in the remaining regions, especially in Diyala, where it has been engaged in ferocious battles for days. Battles will soon move to Kirkuk, where one of the clans demanded to “join the awakening and strengthen the spirit of cooperation with security services in order to eliminate takfiris’ hotbeds in the region”. The call was on “all the clan’s divisions.”

It seems the Sunnis needed to take a trip into the darkness to see the light. They allied with al-Qaeda, based on their promise of a new Islamic age, and found themselves the victims of the Islamo Fascists. The realization of the Sunni’s mistaken reliance on al-Qaeda is interesting to see in how the Iraqi forces are greeted as they stand side-by-side with the Americans in removing the darkness from central Iraq:

Lt. Qusai had his doubts when he took his men into an insurgent haven in the western part of this city for the first time this week.

“Honestly, I thought this operation would never be successful because I had information that Al Qaeda had big guns and RPGs,” said the Iraqi army commander who provided only one name. “We thought that all the people here are terrorists and everyone is bad, even the women and children.”

To his surprise, many of the Sunni Arab locals welcomed the Iraqis who trailed behind U.S. infantrymen through their dusty, bomb-scarred streets, which shimmered in the blazing heat. One man offered them a tray full of glasses of water, and a woman wept at the sight of them.

“It was worst part of the city,” said the stocky, no-nonsense officer in camouflage and leather gloves. “But I found … that not all the people here are bad.”

The only thing missing in all this is the TV media beaming these stories into our living rooms every night as we see the true situation in Iraq. Al-Qaeda’s influence in Iraq has collapsed. It will not go to zero. Neither wiill the violence. But it is rapdily being deflated to a level normal for that region of the world. I refer back to the previous link for a vision of what is to come:

The US awakening in Iraq came late. However, it will create an entity or “province” for clans in the center. This region alone is the only remaining obstacle on the road toward a sectarian federation.

If this is true then the Surge will have done what it was designed to do. The Surge wass directed at the areas on people causing 80% of the problems in Iraq. And this time the threats were going to be removed for good, not simply chased away to take up operations someplace new. We will now see if there is any upswelling of extremism to try and pick up where al-Qaeda failed. But my feelng is the Iraqis have had enough of this nonsense and are ready to take over for themselves.

43 responses so far

43 Responses to “Clearing Of Baquoba, Iraq Nearly Complete”

  1. Bozoer Rebbe says:

    You haven’t read “Whose War” by Pat Buchanan?
    Mearsheimer, Walt?
    American policy in the Mideast has been run by dual loyalist
    traitors on balance for the past several years, and dominated by
    such for many more.

    C’mon, are you chicken? Can’t be honest enough to say that it’s all the Jews’ fault?

    You know the Santayana saying about those who forget history? Well, the number one history lesson is don’t fuck with the Jews. We have a very powerful Friend. Every nation or group in history that has chosen to make itself the enemy of the Jews has suffered as a result. If you want to consign yourself to the dustbin of history, go ahead.

    I guess David Marcus, a West Point graduate, who helped establish the US Army Ranger School and later helped train the Hagganah and nascient IDF under the nom de guerre of Mickey Marcus, must have been a “traitor” for his “dual” loyalties. So, too, must be Jack Jacobs, a supporter of Israel who was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor for action in Vietnam. Jews have been among the most overrepresented groups in the American military.

    You bring shame on America.

  2. lurker9876 says:

    The Death Cult Of al-Qaeda

    Of course, trying to bring hope and democracy to these countries is a fools errand right? Bringing hope, freedom, education to the Middle East may be the only way to defeat terrorism in the long run and if we had never even tried what would future generations have said of us?

  3. lurker9876 says:

    And the center wants to bring back Hitler:

    The New Left: “Bring Back Hitler”

  4. MerlinOS2 says:

    Lurker

    Go to the linked HuffPo post and read the comments to it.

    Sounds like some of our new posters have that as their online zipcode.

  5. DaleinAtlanta says:

    You bring shame on America.

    Left by Bozoer Rebbe on June 24th, 2007

    Bozoer: you’re new here, or at least I haven’t seen you before, I see you’ve already “met” the Loon, but let me formally introduct you to:

    “THECENTERISABUNGHOLE”

    He is our Resident Leninist-Marxist Drug-addled, BDS-afflicted, 60’s “Radical” reject, Anti-American, Pro-Jihadi, Racist and Anti-Semite….tah da….”THECENTERISABUNGHOLE”!

    His equally loony anally-manipulated Sockpuppet, is another Leftist Nutbag, who goes by the appellation: “Bootlicker”.

    If you go back thru the threads, they’re not shy at all about ranting against the “JOOOOOOS” and AIPAC and the Priory of Zion and the World-wide Zionist Conspiracy theories, etc.

    You see, “THECENTERISABUNGHOLE” is a member of Berkeley-inspired Radical Leftist Nutbag Academia, and he’s reached the point in his life, where even Viagra no longer works, and he can no longer seduce his brainwashed, mindless little sychophantic students, so he has excess time on his hands now, and he thus has nowhere else to spew his hate, vile, racism, treason, sedition, and self-hate, so he comes here! He’s trying to relive the Glory days of Free Love and Jane Fonda and when they brought a President down (Nixon) via “people power” and LOONacy; unfortunately, Weed and his own Flaccid Tumenescence will no longer cooperate, and so, pathetically, he comes here to flaunt his own obvious “shortcomings”!

    Yaaaaaaawwwnnnnn!

    Sigh….another day, another Leftist Nutbag who what?, “coincidently” is Anti-American/Pro-Jihadi/Anti-Semitic!

    Imagine my surprise!

    …Chirp……………Chirp…………..Chirp…………………

    Anyway Bozoer, welcome aboard, and please, feel free to Insult “THECENTERISABUNGHOLE” copiously; he enjoys it; it’s the only vicariousness he gets in his otherwise self-inflicted cesspool of a pathetic existence!

    Bozoer: by the way, I haven’t looked at the numbers in a few years, but when I was on Active Duty in the Corps, I saw the numbers all the time, and at least during the 1980’s and 1990’s, the “Jews”, as an ethnic group,were in fact, Under-represented in the Military vis a vis their percentage in the US population at large.

    Jews and Asians were the two ethnic groups that were seriously Under-represented in the Active Duty end strength of the Military, actually.

    Now, I haven’t actually looked for a breakdown since 9/11; but I just read an article linked from Drudge, that Black representation in the Armed Forces has plunged by more than a Third, mainly because of the Political Radicalization of the American Black population, and of course the fact that a certain segement of that population, thanks to the efforts of the Leftist Seditionist Treasonous Party (i.e. the old “Democratic” Party), have been so brainwashed by Anti-American/Pro-Jihadi Leftist Propaganda (an effort that would make Stalin and Pravda proud, by the way!), that they’ve just flat out lost their minds!

    That said, the plunge in Black recruitment is not a bad thing per se, because for over 30 years, Blacks as an ethnic group, have in fact, been WAY OVER Represented in the Military, at some points in the past, reaching as much as almost 40% of the Enlisted ranks in the US Army for example, even though their representation in the US General population has always hovered around 11%.

    But, the changing demographic make-up of the US General Population is now actually more accurately reflected, due to the drop in Black enlistments, according to the article, prior to 9/11, Blacks were over 23% It hink, and now, it is more in line with 12%, which is just right about what their Percentage is in the US population in general. Conversely, according to the article, Hispanic and other minority group recruitment is Up.

    The Good news, in that article of course, that they mention, but don’t tout, because it is suppose to be, typically Leftist MSM Anti-Bush that is, a slam at the GWOT, Iraq, and President Bush; is that another factor besides Politics in the Black loss of Recruits, is the fact that there are just more other-than-military Options now open and available to Blacks, and more High School Black Graduates are also going to College as well!

    This is great news, for the country at large, and even for the Military, because the Officer Corps of ALL Branches of the Military, recruits out of College, and Blacks were always under-represented in the Officer Corps, because of the under-representation of Blacks in Universities.

    With more Blacks deciding to attend College, there will now at least be a chance, to address THAT specific imbalance; with more Black College Graduates, there is at least a chance for more Black Officer Canddiates, and hopefully, down the line, Black Officer numbers will increase to the point where that group is no longer Under-represented in the Military Officer Corps.

    Anyway Bozoer; you may do the Googling if you wish; but it was always obvious that Jews, at least while I was in, were for some reason that no one knew the answer too, in fact, under-represented in the Military, vis a vis their % in the US General Population.

    I never heard anyone infer anything negative out of it, no one really knew why actually; it was just assumed that maybe Jews, as a group, had more family opportunities or Professional opportunities, outside the Military option, and just took advantage of them. Doesn’t/didn’t make them any less Patriotic as a group or anything, it may have just meant that they had more opportunities, and used them.

    I had many friends who recruited in the Corps (I did NOT, by the way); and they used to talk about the INTENSE competition for Women/Black/Asian/Minority Recruits, even back then.

    This was way before Iraq/GWOT, and they used to phrase it this way to me: “If you were a woman, or a black guy, or an Asian gal, coming out of college, with a good degree, and you had a chance to become a 2nd Lt, and earn $30,000 a year, or you had a chance to get into IBM or Merrill Lynch or ING or even Northrup Grumman, as part of a “diversity” campaign, and make $50,000 to start, which one would you take?”

    Doesn’t take a genius to figure that one out, does it?

    That’s what the recruiters were up against, in my day. With the continually growing economy, and opportunities continuing to expand, for everyone, according to the article, I imagine it’s even worse now!

  6. MerlinOS2 says:

    Dale

    You may want to have a look at this article which talks about the issues impacting recruiting today. 

     

     Admiral Cotton’s remarks represent the “inconvenient truth” of military recruiting; demographic and qualification issues that will persist long after our forces leave the Middle East. Simply stated, a generation raised on junk food, medicated with psychotropic drugs, prone to criminal behavior, unaccustomed to physical activity and with marginal academic skills–is simply a poor fit for the U.S. military.

     

  7. DaleinAtlanta says:

    Merlin: thanks for that; great article, and kind of sad, isn’t it?

  8. Bozoer Rebbe says:

    Bozoer: by the way, I haven’t looked at the numbers in a few years, but when I was on Active Duty in the Corps, I saw the numbers all the time, and at least during the 1980’s and 1990’s, the “Jews”, as an ethnic group,were in fact, Under-represented in the Military vis a vis their percentage in the US population at large.

    Jews and Asians were the two ethnic groups that were seriously Under-represented in the Active Duty end strength of the Military, actually.

    While it is true that Jews are currently underrepresented in the US armed forces (currently Southerners and Native Americans are the most overrepresented groups), this situation did not exist before the Vietnam war. Prior to Vietnam Jews were considered the most overrepresented group in the armed forces. The Jewish War Veterans is the oldest congressionally chartered US veterans group. About 1.5 million Jews served in the Allied forces during WWII. Considering that there were only about 14 million Jews in the world at the time, and the Nazis were busy killing 6 million of them, 1.5 million is a pretty high figure. About 785,000 Jewish men and women served in the US armed forces during WWII, out of a total US Jewish population of about 4.5 million. Student deferments were probably the main factor in reducing Jews in the armed forces in the Vietnam era, but even then there were about 250,000 Jews who served in Vietnam. Since then, the volunteer armed forces, the end of institutional anti-semitism that had prevented many Jews from attending elite colleges, and increased Jewish affluence have mitigated against Jews enlisting. Still, there were Jews who have served with distinction in Vietnam and since, like Col. Jack Jacobs, a CMOH awardee, or Joe Kashnow, who started the Jewish Soldier Foundation to assist active duty Jews after he was wounded serving in Iraq (and has since lost his leg).

  9. Bozoer Rebbe says:

    And yes, there have been Jews KIA in Iraq and Afghanistan.

  10. DaleinAtlanta says:

    Bozoer: I knew about the Jews in WWII; yes, some interesting documentaries on the History & Military channels about that; good stuff.

    I figured it was in Vietnam, that is started to tail off; but didn’t know the numbers.

    I was in after than, when they were in, and still are, in their down cycle.

    But don’t think that anyone is saying that Jews are “unpatriotic” because of it, or at least I am not, though “THECENTERISABUNGHOLE” and his anally-manipulated sockpuppet “Bootlicker” will probably seize upon that, to say it, since their primary motivation in life seems to be Anti-Semitism.

    I know there were many Jews in the US Armed Forces during the Gulf War; had to KILL the Saudis; I loved it, personally!

    Admiral Borda, who unfortunately shot himself during the Clinton Administration over the flap with his medals, was the first Jewish CNO, if I’m not mistaken; I served with his son out in the Arabian Gulf back in ’88.

    I haven’t said there were no Jews KIA in Iraq/Afghanistan; so maybe that was just a point of reference?

    Bozoer; since you are obviously Jewish, I have a question to ask you.

    I live here in Atlanta, which has a long and distinguished Jewish community.

    Also, there are over 45 Israeli companies down here; so I have many American Jewish neighbors, and many Israeli Jewish neighbors.

    As far as I was concerned, they’re all “Jews”; they should all get along, and probably even have similar thoughts!

    Over the past 4 years, have found out, the two communities, at least down here, are diametrically Opposed, on: President Bush, the Iraq War, GWOT, etc.

    The American Jews, mainly “secular” are almost 90% vehemently against Bush; they hate him; are just a bunch of typcial Leftists, when it comes to Bush, Iraq, Afghanistan, etc.

    The Israeli Jews on the other hand, are pro-Bush, the Iraq War, GWOT, Afghanistan, etc.

    And the two communities down here, don’t really get along, because of that!

    I’ve had many Israeli neighbors down here tell me, that the “American Jews are spoiled, and they just don’t “get it””!

    They also point out, that most of the American “radicals” as they call them, are in fact, American Jews! I had never thought about that, but they point out people like Al Franken, Noam Chomsky, Sean Penn, etc., etc.

    I never really spent much time, analyzing the Jewish dynamics before, but I had an Israeli neighbor point out all this stuff to me, about the time of the Iraq Invasion, and said as far as he was concerned, “American Jews were nuts”!

    What do you think of that? Do you think there’s anything to it; and if so, how would you explain the fact that aLOT of the “American Left” seems to be composed of Secular Jews, again, people like Noam Chomsky, Al Franken, and other idiots like that?

    Frankly, my Israeli neighbors and friends, don’t like them, and avoid them!

    Kind of interesting, isn’t it?

  11. DaleinAtlanta says:

    PS: Bozoer: I’m sure it HAS occurred to you, but I have to ask:

    Does the complete and utter “irony” of American Jews, fighting in the Gulf War, and in Afghanistan and Iraq, to free societies who’s very essence is built around the destruction and murder of Jews, worldwide, not strike you as, well….”ironic”; or “sad”, or something?

  12. DaleinAtlanta says:

    PPS: I meant to add: “Possibly dying to protect a people who want them to die, and against an enemy who wants them to die quicker than the people they are protecting”!

    Crazy, huh?

  13. thecentercannothold says:

    Dale-rat I see you’re an economic fool to complement your
    Iraq war /WOT foolishness.

    http://www.counterpunch.org/roberts06252007.html

    As the great Paul Craig Roberts outlines.

  14. thecentercannothold says:

    Rebbe

    I notice you atttempted to trick the readers with your first “Jews overrepresented” post. Typical.

    Thanks for catching him Dale.

  15. thecentercannothold says:

    Don’t worry just yet, Dale. Rahm Emmanuel with his bro’ in the racist
    Israeli apparatus, is doing his best to keep the Democratic Party
    from going Murtha.

  16. DaleinAtlanta says:

    Bozoer: as you can see, the Anti-American, Pro-Jihadi, Anti-Semite, Racist, Leftist Nutbag, “THECENTERISABUNGHOLE” just showed up!

    And he had the nerve to provide a link to a website that worships: Hugo Chavez, Noam Chomsky, Muhammad Ali, etc., etc.

    Wow, is there any more proof needed, to show you what you are dealing with?

  17. Bozoer Rebbe says:

    Dale

    I haven’t said there were no Jews KIA in Iraq/Afghanistan; so maybe that was just a point of reference?

    Just a point of reference, anticipating one of the Jew hater’s possible talking points.

    The American Jews, mainly “secular” are almost 90% vehemently against Bush; they hate him; are just a bunch of typcial Leftists, when it comes to Bush, Iraq, Afghanistan, etc.

    The Israeli Jews on the other hand, are pro-Bush, the Iraq War, GWOT, Afghanistan, etc.

    And the two communities down here, don’t really get along, because of that!

    I’ve had many Israeli neighbors down here tell me, that the “American Jews are spoiled, and they just don’t “get it””!

    They also point out, that most of the American “radicals” as they call them, are in fact, American Jews! I had never thought about that, but they point out people like Al Franken, Noam Chomsky, Sean Penn, etc., etc.

    I never really spent much time, analyzing the Jewish dynamics before, but I had an Israeli neighbor point out all this stuff to me, about the time of the Iraq Invasion, and said as far as he was concerned, “American Jews were nuts”!

    What do you think of that? Do you think there’s anything to it; and if so, how would you explain the fact that aLOT of the “American Left” seems to be composed of Secular Jews, again, people like Noam Chomsky, Al Franken, and other idiots like that?

    Frankly, my Israeli neighbors and friends, don’t like them, and avoid them!

    Kind of interesting, isn’t it?

    Jews have been attracted to the left since Czarist Russia. If I was a Jew in Russia in the 1890s, I might have been a commie too. The level of organized and violent anti-semitism was that extreme. There was also substantial involvement in the labor union, though Samuel Gompers, the father of the American labor movement was a capitalist, not a socialist (which is one reason why the US labor movement is not nearly as left wing as those in other countries). Add the iconic status of FDR and the myths of the New Deal. In the postwar period you can add guilt over affluence. Bundle this up in traditional Jewish concepts of social justice, feeding the hungry, clothing the naked, along with the fact that Jews are indeed a minority, it’s easy to understand why Jews, even wealthy Jews, tend to tilt left politically in this country. So you end up with the insane situation of Jews supporting affirmative action even though Jews (along with Asians) are the ones most likely to be excluded as a result of affirmative action.

    A major factor in all of this is religious assimilation. Orthodox Jews in the US are much more culturally conservative and far more likely to vote for Republicans than religiously liberal Jews. Perhaps there is an innate Jewish desire for messianic movements. When that desire is not filled by traditional Jewish values, the void is filled with secular, usually left wing, substitutes.

  18. Bozoer Rebbe says:

    PS: Bozoer: I’m sure it HAS occurred to you, but I have to ask:

    Does the complete and utter “irony” of American Jews, fighting in the Gulf War, and in Afghanistan and Iraq, to free societies who’s very essence is built around the destruction and murder of Jews, worldwide, not strike you as, well….”ironic”; or “sad”, or something?

    Left by DaleinAtlanta on June 25th, 2007

    PPS: I meant to add: “Possibly dying to protect a people who want them to die, and against an enemy who wants them to die quicker than the people they are protecting”!

    Crazy, huh?

    Hadassah Hospital is probably the finest hospital in the Middle East. Though primarily funded by contributions from Jews in the disapora, it treats Jews, Arabs and Christians alike. Actor and comedian Larry Miller was getting a tour of the hospital from the hospital director and he remarked on the Arabs in the ER waiting room.

    Downstairs, before we left, the head of the hospital, an Israeli named Audrey, was showing me the children’s waiting room. I couldn’t help but notice, all around, an Arab woman with her son, an Arab family over there checking in, Arab children playing with the toys while waiting. The doctor saw the look on my face and laughed. “Oh, yes, we treat everyone.” I guess I was astonished. She just shrugged. “We’re Jews. This is how we live. It’s also for the future. They’re not going anywhere, and we’re not going anywhere. There will eventually be peace. There has to be.” When? A month? A year? A hundred years? More? She didn’t know. I had to say it. You’re incredible. You take everyone, you treat everyone, no one goes first, no one goes last, you just go in order of who needs help. That’s, like, Mother Teresa stuff. “We’re not saints, we’re just doing our jobs. It’s not easy, I admit. And it gets hard when they cheer when the bodies are brought in.” I looked at her. What did you say? She sighed. “Yes, it gets hard when they cheer.”

    And the hospital will continue to treat them because it’s the right thing to do.

  19. Bozoer Rebbe says:

    Don’t worry just yet, Dale. Rahm Emmanuel with his bro’ in the racist
    Israeli apparatus, is doing his best to keep the Democratic Party
    from going Murtha.

    I presume you mean that Rahm Emmanuel, who opposes the war in Iraq, btw, is trying to keep the Democratic party from corruption. Murtha escaped prosecution for taking bribes by the skin of his teeth.

    Jews are not allowed, by law, to buy property in the Palestinian Authority. Selling land to Jews is a capital offense. Jews may not become citizens of Jordan, though there were Jews living on the east bank of the Jordan river long before the Arab/Muslim conquest of that region. Jews are effectively banned from entering Saudi Arabia. After 1948, approximately 750,000 Jews were expelled from Arab and Muslim countries under threat of severe violence.

    Now, what were you saying about a racist apparatus?

    If you hold Israel to a different standard than you hold the Arab countries, it is you who is the bigot.

    I notice you atttempted to trick the readers with your first “Jews overrepresented” post. Typical.

    Oh, I must be one of those sneaky, crafty, deceitful, lying, cheating Jews. Maybe I smell too. There was no attempt at subterfuge as the simple historical fact is that for most of American history, Jews have been overrepresented in the American armed forces and have served with distinction.

    This was my statement:

    “Jews have been among the most overrepresented groups in the American military.”

    See the “have been” part? That means I was talking about the past, not the current. Perhaps your hardon for Adolph and Mahmoud impedes your reading comprehension.

    You know, there are many, many converts to Judaism. Perhaps one of your children or grandchildren may convert to Judaism. Or perhaps one of your sons or grandsons will marry a Jewish woman, making his children Jews. While I’m not a proponent of religious intermarriage (I believe people should share core values if they are getting married), in your case I’ll make an exception.

  20. DaleinAtlanta says:

    Bozoer: you want to know the sad part; being a Leftist Nutbag Anti-American, Pro-Jihadi; there is every chance that “THECENTERISABUNGHOLE” is of Jewish extraction, just like Al Franken, Noam Chomsky, Sean Penn, etc.!

    He certainly posts with the self-hate of one of those types!

    Of course, he’ll never admit it here in the blog, if I’m right because it would mean that I’m right about everything I’ve ever said about him!