Mar 11 2008
al-Qaeda Attempting A Bloody Comeback In Iraq
I know one sick liberal who is very excited today. Some weirdo Ken Hoop emails me daily on any setback the US has in Iraq. Today he must be relishing the news 8 brave young soldiers have been killed in Iraq. Where Hoop finds glee I simply offer my sincere thanks and gratitude to these soldiers and their families for the sacrifices they have bestowed upon this great country.
The Ken Hoop’s of the world are a bizarre genetic malfunction in my mind, just like any ghoulish human who savors human suffering and death to make their miserable existences seem important. Hoop has been trying to gloat for months, as the violence has dropped and Iraq turned the corner from ‘lost cause’ to ‘probable victory’. He wakes every day to try and find some hint that the carnage will grow back to the horrific days of 2007, and tries to share his aspirations with me. It is the sick side of the left.
But the fact is there is more progress and hope than al-Qaeda can destroy with a bomb here and a bomb there. Just like America withstood 9-11 with grace and honor, so will Iraq weather al-Qaeda’s bloody wrath. Here is one story from CBS News (no less) which tells the broader story about Iraq:
The mud buildings were an al Qaeda in Iraq torture chamber and operational headquarters.
Abu Mohammed says he was chained up here for two weeks and saw 13-year-old children killed. When al Qaeda fled, they left little behind.
As inconsequential as the little farming complex may look, in the grand scheme of convincing the local population that security really has returned, it is a potent symbol.
To make that point local sheikhs and tribal leaders were given, if not exactly box seats, certainly prime spots for a show arranged just for them.
Three thousand pounds of bombs costing more than $100,000 dropped from a B-1 bomber obliterated the building. But the military hopes the payoff will be long term.
The dignitaries seemed impressed.
al-Qaeda is trying to massacre the Iraqis into submission. And it is the US that stands next to them trying to destroy al-Qaeda before it kills again. It is a very potent arrangement that will not soon fade from the psyche of the Middle East. But the sickos on the left still have hope, as it appears al-Qaeda is ready to shed a lot more Muslim blood in Iraq:
Al-Qaeda may be shifting tactics back to the big, headline grabbing attacks in Iraq that helped plunge the country into chaos, a senior US commander said Monday.
“We have some indicators that they may be planning on executing kind of a large media type event,” said Major General John Kelly, commander of the I Marine Expeditionary Force in western Iraq.
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Suicide attacks and huge car bombings with large numbers of civilian casualties have long been a signature of Al-Qaeda in Iraq, which has used the tactic to destabilize the country and inflame sectarian divisions.
The bombing of a golden domed Shiite shrine in Samarra in February 2006 tipped the country into open sectarian conflict.
Kelly said it was unclear from the intelligence where Al-Qaeda might try to stage the attacks.
Funny thing, if al-Qaeda felt the press over the attacks was not working in their favor they would probably avoid the bad press. So how is it the media can report on carnage and crimes against humanity and make it a plus for those who executed the carnage and a minus for the country (or countries) trying to stop the carnage from growing? That is a question best left for the ‘professional journalists’ to ponder as they assess the product of their life’s work. al-Qaeda has drawn their conclusions, and it is the more blood, the more press, the better for them.
How warped do you have to be to miss this phenomena?
“…so how is it the media can report on carnage and crimes against humanity and make it a plus for those who executed the carnage and a minus for the country (or countries) trying to stop the carnage from growing?” whether the media actually portrays this as a plus for anyone is a subjective matter…clearly you have your idealogical stand. but objectively speaking, how is it that you report on the carnage against humanity yet refuse to mention the fact that al queda in iraq is a problem of our making?
Yes, Al Queda re-deployed into Iraq after the U.S. invasion. If and when we leave, will they just forget about us, like the Vietnamese did? I doubt it very much.
In this case, I prefer the match-up. Al Queda attacking our army. Seems like a good way to get killed, attacking our military. Particularly in the desert, a good environment for conventional forces to do battle in.
The news media is exceptionally good at political news. As a result, many events are seen through a political prisim. Politics and warfare do not mix well. This can help explain why the news media understands the fundamentals of warfare so poorly.
Let me guess, Norm – Elliot Sptizer problems are George Bush’s fault, too! EVERYthing is George Bush’s fault!
AJ didn’t mention that the Earth is flat or that the moon landings were really a NASA conspiracy, either – maybe because the list of idiotic things that some fools believe is far too long to go into.
A note to AJ – I don’t know why you even open Hoop’s e-mails anymore, I would put them on auto-delete as spam. Someone like him is on the same moral level as a child pornographer (he takes joy in the suffering of the innocent) and I would not allow my mind or life to be polluted by that kind of garbage.
joe…no al queda will not forget us. but finding a safe way out demands honesty about the foolish way we got in.
the media is not good at anything. had they done theri job we would not be in iraq. they, as much as george bush and his cult of followers (this blog included) are complicit in the “…carnage and crimes against humanity…” taking place in iraq.
WWS,
What makes you think I ever opened one up? When you delete you see who it is from.
Go back and study the Brookings Iraq Index statistics. From the beginning of the war we were killing foreign terrorists in Iraq. We killed high ranking members of al Qaeda in Iraq before Zarqawi pledged his allegiance to bin Laden. Later Zarqawi and the foreign terrorists publicly united and fought under the al Qaeda banner, if they hadn’t done so, the left would still be screaming there is no al Qaeda in Iraq. Now they moan that we brought al Qaeda to Iraq.
Newsflash, they were there before we got there and we know many were trained by al Qaeda in Afghanistan along with Zarqawi.
sorry I got the wrong implication, AJ. Misread between the lines.
well missy…a 9/07 senate intelligence commitee report disagrees with you…and a new pentagon sponsored report out later this week disagrees with you. i know the far far extreme right as represented by blogs like this like to use semantics and craven rationalizations to justify this blunder of blunders. but those hair-thin arguments do not begin to warrant losing 4000 troops, borrowing two trillion dollars from china, and creating another ally in the region for iran. as i said…we need to be honest about how we got in and the situation today in order to see a real way out. cheerleading and fear-mongering is non-productive. staying in un-sustainable.
You can feel the joy from the left wing press.
Even the usually careful London Times is having a
personal moment, as Spitzer would say.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/iraq/article3522088.ece?Submitted=true
Go there and send them a comment.
It may be that America will elect it’s first Arab President this
year, and that he will pull all of our troops out of everywhere,
not to defend the homeland, but as a start to the long surrender
that he has in mind. To the Ummah, to the Nation of Islam,
to Almond Dinner Jab, to that guy they call a prophet.
Then we shall see if guys like Norm are still laughing. No
more cheap new world Chardonnay for you dude,
you will submit or become headless.
But in fact, the loss of eight soldiers is militarily insignificant.
Your celebrations say a lot about you, but also show your
strategic stupidity.
Norm,
You will find that report will not say Saddam did not have contacts or plans to have future operational connections to AQ. You will only find he did not as of yet, but had discussions about future arrangements.
Which is what the risk was all about. Only lefty fools think Iraq was about 9-11, it was about possible future 9-11s.
Old news rehashed for the gullible (and the media leak by someone who wants to set the tone of the story for the liberals is not new).
I guess they didn’t do their homework, what a surprise.
http://www.tkb.org/KeyLeader.jsp?memID=6049
http://www.tkb.org/KeyLeader.jsp?memID=6409
close…but not completely honest…it was about an existing neo-con idealology which could suddenly be justified and sold, on the basis of extremely sketchy exaggerated or completely made-up evidence, to a public with an irrational fear of future 9-11’s. scared people go along with stupid ideas. iraq was a stupid idea. look at what you are saying…in what world do discussions about possible future arrangments justify 4000 troops, two trillion dollars, and making iraq into an ally of iran. we have been in iraq for 5 years now and al queda is back to strength. an honest assessment would conclude it’s not working. we need to figure out how to destroy the enemy. cheerleading isn’t getting it done.
So come on Norm,
how would you destroy Al-Kyder in Iraq?
Would you drop a 10 megaton hydrogen warhead on Mosul.
That would work.
I suspect you have no plan, just like that useless dolt Hussein.
Well that’s not completely fair.
Hussein has a plan, it’s called surrender.
But you said you wanted to win.
Tell us about it, dud.
(H/T Olivia Newton-John)
well first…i wouldn’t have let “al-kyder” into iraq to begin with. so i assume you are asking how i would solve the problem the current administration plans on leaving for the next administration? is that what you are asking me?
Heh, Phase II:
http://strata-sphere.com/blog/index.php/archives/2468
Good job, AJ!
I knew you’d say that, it isn’t an answer.
I guess you will do your best to avoid demonstrating that you have no plan.
So come on, you got a better idea?
You say you got a real solution,
well ya know…
We all want to see the plan.
norm:
You do not know what you are talking about. Zarqawi went from Afghaninstan to Iraq long before the invasion. And Zarqawi was the beginning of AlQaida in Iraq. There is nothing far right about that, it is just a fact.
In fact I can remember back in the 90’s Richard Clarke talking about the possibility of Osama boogying to Iraq. {Those were his words}
I can remember Bill Richardson talking about Saddam’s ties with AlQaida in relation to the African Embassy bombings in the late 90’s.
In 99 ABC did a documentary on the ties between Osama and Saddam and the British newspaper did a story on a meeting between high level AlQaida operatives and Saddam’s intel people in Afghanistan. They even had pictures.
What we have now are lefties like yourself bitching about people you call far right cooking intel or whatever, while you revise history, cherry pick certain intel reports in an effort to cover up the truth and your own tracks.
Baghdad was terrorist central for years, no one doubted it until it was politically advantageous to do so.
So not only would have let AlQaida into Iraq you would probably have paid their way, covered their asses and cheered them on.
And norm, since it is the plan of the left to just hand Iraq to AlQaida on a silver platter, what difference does it make to you how they got there?
And not only that if Clinton had dealt with AlQaida back in the 90’s when they first declared war on the United States we might not be dealing with them now.
And if the problem of Hussein had been dealt with then as well we might not be where we are today either.
No, the left just bitches, moans, whines, lies, exploits the dead and never comes up with anything new to actually make things better. Their whole schtick is that the Republicans are the real enemies and the answer to everything is Run Away.
BTW, before these last two attacks, there had been two servicemen killed in Iraq in the month of March. I guess that makes it 10 for this month. I wonder how many will die when Obama calls for the retreat? Hey, as long as we can blame it on George, it is all good. Right norm? That is what really matters, isn’t it?
I guess that’s the plan then,
uh… nothin’ ?
well if you go carryin’ pictures of Chairman Mao,
ya ain’t gonna’ make it with anyone anyhow
see you Norm