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2004-09-09 Iraq

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Posted by Murat 2004-09-09 10:27:27 AM|| E-Mail|| Front Page|| [11135 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Everything under control I guess.

Posted by Murat 2004-09-09 10:40:06 AM|| 2004-09-09 10:40:06 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 29th June to 9th September = 73 days (and 148 casualties)
1st March to 30th April = 61 days (and 138 casualties)

First period = 2.03 casualties per day
Second period = 2.26 casualties per day

And this shows the fighting is intensifying?! Didn't get taught maths, eh, Murat? (And neither, it seems did the MSNBC reporter.)

Posted by Bulldog 2004-09-09 10:43:01 AM|| 2004-09-09 10:43:01 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 Oops, misuse of the term @'casualties' by me. I mean 'deaths'.

Posted by Bulldog 2004-09-09 10:51:59 AM|| 2004-09-09 10:51:59 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 Bulldog: Math, journalism and MSNBC eq oxymoron

Posted by badanov 2004-09-09 10:52:24 AM|| [http://www.rkka.org] 2004-09-09 10:52:24 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 Murat: Everything under control I guess.

For sure. We lost 24 GI's killed per day in Vietnam. We are losing perhaps 3 per day in Iraq. Just goes to show that Muslims have no guts.

Posted by Zhang Fei 2004-09-09 10:57:46 AM|| [http://timurileng.blogspot.com] 2004-09-09 10:57:46 AM|| Front Page Top

#6 Cordon off Fallujah, evacuate all but jihadis, bomb to rubble, move on to next town. US death rate would drop quickly.

Posted by V is for Victory 2004-09-09 11:03:39 AM|| 2004-09-09 11:03:39 AM|| Front Page Top

#7 Muslims have no spines either, and Turkey in particular, has no honor

Posted by Frank G 2004-09-09 11:12:20 AM|| 2004-09-09 11:12:20 AM|| Front Page Top

#8 It would be interesting to see how many of those deaths occurred in the areas we could not get to during the war because of the Turkish stab in the back. Enjoy being a EUro-peon Murat.

Posted by Mrs. Davis 2004-09-09 11:18:39 AM|| 2004-09-09 11:18:39 AM|| Front Page Top

#9 Its true that things are not totally under control. In fact the Sunni triangle and Sadr city are in bad shape.

Without our soldiers fighting and sometimes dying to bring order, terrorists would have a lot more flexibility to hit places like Turkey (and Al Q would love to overthrow the govt Turkey and they would be far more active in this if they weren't throwing so many resources into Iraq).

Turkey would also take a big hit if Iraq ceased oil production and ceased operations in Kurdish Iraq.

I think Murat actually knows this. Certainly the military leaders of Turkey know it.

Posted by mhw 2004-09-09 11:21:11 AM|| 2004-09-09 11:21:11 AM|| Front Page Top

#10 And when deep cleaning the tiles don't be tempted to mix ammonia and bleach, that's killed more turks than the red chinnee ever did.

Posted by Shipman 2004-09-09 11:48:38 AM|| 2004-09-09 11:48:38 AM|| Front Page Top

#11 Murat's right. Maybe we should just "go Armenian" on some of these places. That'd cut down on the death rates. Ours, anyways. Maybe get some Turkish advisors in there to show us how to do it right.

Posted by tu3031 2004-09-09 12:06:05 PM|| 2004-09-09 12:06:05 PM|| Front Page Top

#12 allan-cultists are pussies.
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"Mahoud, what's on the agenda for today?"
"Let's see, Abu...You have a rape scheduled at the Christian school at 9AM (oh, praise allan). We have beheadings at 930AM, 10AM and 11AM. Oh, and I have blocked out 3 hours in the afternoon for honor killings. You know, the usual whores... pre-teenage girls."
"Thanks, Mahoud. Looks like it's going to be another oustanding day!"
"Oh, and I almost forgot. Sometime before evening prayers? You know, acid in your sister's face?"
"You are right. I almost forgot. Dirty slut...talking to you on the phone without my permission."
"That's about it boss."
"Hokay. Time for morning prayers to allan!"
"Yes. allan ahkbar!!"

Posted by anymouse 2004-09-09 1:06:25 PM|| 2004-09-09 1:06:25 PM|| Front Page Top

#13 It would take about 5 years of military occupation at the current rate to equal the amount killed in 9/11.

Posted by Johnnie Bartlette 2004-09-09 1:16:26 PM|| 2004-09-09 1:16:26 PM|| Front Page Top

#14 Great point, Johnnie!
And note this is from Bush-bashing and America-hating MesSNBC, so it would never be good news about the war.
Lord knows, if we ever win through to victory, they'll still be yapping about a Vietnam-like "quagmire!"

Posted by GreatestJeneration 2004-09-09 1:21:00 PM|| [http://www.greatestjeneration.com] 2004-09-09 1:21:00 PM|| Front Page Top

#15 What a stupid premise. Of course the death rate is rising. Did you think the number would go down, lame brain?

A more meaningful figure is that ratio of US v/s bad-boys killed. What was that again, Murat?

Posted by B 2004-09-09 2:15:23 PM|| 2004-09-09 2:15:23 PM|| Front Page Top

#16 Just remember Spec. Roche's comment at the end of the article. American people's will is the key for our guys there. Am. govt will and resolution is the key re Iraqi folks. I'll go out on a limb and declare that 90% of Iraqis wouldn't mind seeing the Baathist/Sadr/foreigner elements eliminated. Here's where will and determination come in. Who cares about the 10%? Can we stand the coverage that would come with going for the throat in the Triangle? I'm not talking about turning the place into glass, just letting the pros accomplish an obvious necessity. They have Rules of Engagement; Allawi knows it can be done. He needs to sign off on it and step back.

Posted by chicago mike 2004-09-09 2:28:59 PM|| 2004-09-09 2:28:59 PM|| Front Page Top

#17 Of course the death rate is rising. Did you think the number would go down, lame brain?

Haaahahahahahaahhaaaa

Posted by Bomb-a-rama 2004-09-09 2:52:04 PM|| 2004-09-09 2:52:04 PM|| Front Page Top

#18 RE #8. Murat, are you going to answer Mrs Davis or not? Or are you just like the other Islamofascists? Hit, RUN! and hide.

Posted by GK 2004-09-09 3:22:26 PM|| 2004-09-09 3:22:26 PM|| Front Page Top

#19 Murat, are you going to answer Mrs Davis or not? Or are you just like the other islamofascists? Hit, RUN! and hide.

GK...you meant Hit, RUN! and hide in a burka with their mother's panties on.

Posted by anymouse 2004-09-09 4:18:34 PM|| 2004-09-09 4:18:34 PM|| Front Page Top

#20 The usual procedure's: hide, miss, run, get hit. I think that's more like it.

Posted by Bulldog 2004-09-09 5:22:06 PM|| 2004-09-09 5:22:06 PM|| Front Page Top

#21 Mrs Davis, No one invited the Americans to occupy and kill women and children in Iraq. There are some facts, 1st Arabs are the worst fighters in the world, they lack any spirit and nationalism (even the bare footed Vietnamese where far superior fighters) still the poor American army with a mighty arsenal is strugling, really pathetic.

I wouldn't advice Bush to occupy Iran with these bunch of potato's he calls an army.

Posted by Murat 2004-09-09 5:23:01 PM|| 2004-09-09 5:23:01 PM|| Front Page Top

#22 You're right about the Arabs fighting qualities. The only thing lower is the sick man of EUropeons. I would love to see the Turkeys taken on by a united Kurdistan. That would be quick.

Posted by Mrs. Davis 2004-09-09 5:26:25 PM|| 2004-09-09 5:26:25 PM|| Front Page Top

#23 Murat, did it every occur to you that ALL problems the U.S. troops have in Iraq stem from the fact that they DON'T WANT to kill Iraqi women and children?

Posted by True German Ally 2004-09-09 5:26:31 PM|| 2004-09-09 5:26:31 PM|| Front Page Top

#24 good point tga.

Posted by muck4doo 2004-09-09 5:28:03 PM|| [http://meatismurder.blogspot.com/] 2004-09-09 5:28:03 PM|| Front Page Top

#25 I think Saddam Hussein "invited" us.
And I know our soldiers take every care not to kill or hurt women and children, but to help them.
And the Iraqis themselves will testify to this.
It's Sadr's people and his army of "insurgents"--as is usual with Islamist killers--who don't think of thing of killing women (and raping them, too) and children--often using them as human shields or arming them.
Muslims seem to like killing fellow Muslims almost as much as "infidels."
And it was Islamist killers who killed women and little babies and children in Beslan, too.
You're right that Arabs are the worst fighters, but that "bunch of potatoes" you call the American army have taken Iraq and Kuwait TWICE in a matter of weeks in the last 12 years.

Posted by GreatestJeneration 2004-09-09 5:28:54 PM|| [http://www.greatestjeneration.com] 2004-09-09 5:28:54 PM|| Front Page Top

#26 don't feed the coward turk

Posted by Frank G 2004-09-09 5:39:07 PM|| 2004-09-09 5:39:07 PM|| Front Page Top

#27 murat=porkskin, foreskin

Posted by anymouse 2004-09-09 5:43:29 PM|| 2004-09-09 5:43:29 PM|| Front Page Top

#28 murat your an idiot - just because we care about civilians in our operations (unlike the stinking turks - and i do mean that literally (some very foul smelling cities - do not blame the EU for bitch slapping you)) does not mean our military cannot wage war effectively.

so if we are such push overs why isn't the turkish military taking northern iraq...which is coveted by turkey?? maybe because you will face a true military and not some kurdish militia's?....
twit...

Posted by Dan 2004-09-09 6:30:40 PM|| 2004-09-09 6:30:40 PM|| Front Page Top

#29 Will noone rid us of this meddlesome troll?

Posted by Rex Mundi 2004-09-09 7:40:05 PM|| 2004-09-09 7:40:05 PM|| Front Page Top

#30 12,000 Federal troops died in one day at Antietam, 14 Sep 1862. Then as now a radical branch of the Democratic Party, the "Copperheads" urged peace be made, let the oppressors alone, so what if your fellow man, excuse me, property, remained as slaves. The rest of America didn't buy into that. By then it was understood what we were fighting for, and we were willing to bear the cost. It is appearent this new generation does too.

Posted by Don 2004-09-09 8:00:56 PM|| 2004-09-09 8:00:56 PM|| Front Page Top

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