Iraqi Updates

Well President George W. Bush has a problem that is growing by the day. The problem is that he is losing support for this Iraqi endgame by his own party.

As announced Thursday, Senator Pete Domenici, Republican of New Mexico, is withdrawing support for President Bush's Iraq war policy and has embraced a proposal to bring most of the troops home by March of 2008. This comes on the heels of Republican Senators Richard Lugar and George Voinovich's pronouncements that they would no longer support the current Bush policy of the "surge" as they believe that it is a failure and that wwe must get our troops out of Iraq as quickly as possible.

Senator Domenici said that he carefully studied the Iraq situation and he believes that we cannot continue to ask our troops to sacrifice indefinitely, while the Iraqi government is not making measurable progress to move their country forward.

I was just reading another story which I will write about tomorrow that says that many areas of Iraq are having positive outcomes, since our troops have stepped up the hunting of insurgents and terrorists, so did Pete miss that story or is he just trying to set himself up to get re-elected by opposing an unpopular President. I am very wary of politicians that start changing when they get closer and closer to an election.

We shall do more checking into this change of heart by Senator Domenici and shall report to you on what I find.

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In a related story about Iraq, there was a message by the number 2 in command of al-Qaeda, one Ayman al-Zawahiri, a supposed deputy to Osama bin-Laden, who went on a hour and a half video taped rant about the fight with the United States troops in Iraq. He relates how the United States Presence in Iraq is part of a "Crusaders" style move to take over the region. Of course he also had to add a rant about the Zionists who are in this attempt to take over muslim territory.

Please Dude al-Zawahiri, do us all a favor and stop sending young men to die for Allah. If it is such a GOOD deal, why don't you and your coward boss stop hiding behind women's skirts and strap on a suicide vest and get with the Program!!

I know you won't because you are scared little men who only feel power when you can send young, idealistic young men to their deaths, and then go on video rants about all the bad people who oppress you. Give me a Break..You are nothing but spoiled, rich A$$&*^s who cannot do anything but destroy what other people have built. The sooner one of our troops gets you in his sights and puts you down the BETTER!!
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And in keeping with the cowardly way that these people act, a car bomb detonated and killed 17 people and wounded 28, when it exploded outside a photographer's studio in a Shiite part of Bahgdad, which also injured a bride and groom who were getting their wedding pictures taken while their friends and family waited outside. How very brave of this bomber to kill innocent people celebrating their marriage, and affirming LIFE instead of the DEATH that the bombers and the terrorists CELEBRATE!!
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A suicide truck bomber blasted a Shiite town north of Baghdad on Saturday, killing more than 100 people, police said, in a sign Sunni insurgents are pulling away from a U.S. offensive around the capital to attack where security is thinner.
The marketplace devastation underlined a hard reality in Iraq!! There are not enough forces to protect everywhere. U.S. troops, already increased by 28,000 this year, are focused on bringing calm to Baghdad, while the Iraqi military and police remain overstretched and undertrained.
The U.S. military on Saturday also reported that eight American service members were killed in fighting in Baghdad and western Anbar province over two days, reflecting the increased U.S. casualties that have come with the new offensives. A British soldier was killed in fighting with Shiite militias overnight in the southern city of Basra.
In Saturday's attack — among the deadliest this year in Iraq — the truck detonation ripped through the market in the farming town of Armili at around 8:30 am, as crowds had gathered for morning shopping.

Another rough couple of days all around for those in and out of Iraq. Perhaps tomorrow will bring better news!!