Defeated Iraqi Security Forces Bring Improved Security to Iraq
May 31st, 2008 at 12:29am Mark Noonan
Yet more proof that our entire effort in Iraq has been misguided from the start and that our best option is to get out as quickly as possible:
Last week, Iraq experienced the lowest level of “security incidents” since March 2004, a reduction that military officials attribute in part to improvements in Iraqi security forces.
“The collective efforts … to increase the capacity of the Iraqi security forces is a key part of the reason why we saw last week the lowest level of security incidents in Iraq the past four years,” Army Maj. Gen. Kevin Bergner, a Multinational Force Iraq spokesman, said May 28 during a news conference in Baghdad.
“It is also why we are seeing Iraqi citizens increasingly supporting their security forces by calling in tips on criminal activity and illegal weapons,” Bergner continued. “And it is why we are seeing the Iraqi security forces conducting effective operations in Basra, Mosul and Baghdad to enforce the rule of law.”
Army Lt. Gen. James M. Dubik, commander of Multinational Security Transition Command Iraq, said he and other officials tasked with building and training the national security forces in Iraq are seeing continued progress.
“The last 12 months have witnessed a marked decrease in violence, along with a corresponding increase in the capability, professionalism and effectiveness of the Iraqi security forces,” he told reporters during the news conference.
As we can see here, we are definitely stuck in the middle of an Iraqi civil war which cannot be ended by our efforts. The fact that the Iraqi security forces have demonstrated their inability to fight for the so-called democracy in Iraq is all the proof we need that our continued presence is the problem.
The sooner we elect the Hope and Change of Obama - who knew that Iraq was a failure even before we went in - the better we’ll be. We’ll be able to cut ourselves loose from these complete losers in the Iraqi security forces and make common cause with the peace-loving government of Iran, which is only interested in ending imperalist US influence in the middle east. The prospect of a McCain presidency is just too horrible to contemplate - leaving for Canada would be the only rational American response to such an event. McCain is certain to keep pumping more dollars and lives into this Iraq mess, which has no end in sight and which has clearly made Iran stronger.
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15 Comments
1. liberalDream | May 31st, 2008 at 6:00 am
Mark - telling me that the violence in Iraq is much better than it was in 2006 is one thing . Thats great. But to try to pull of this nonsenses that somehow things are great in Iraq is just absolutely and completely insane. Indeed things are much better than they were during the peak violence in 2006 when an average of 72 people were dying by gunshots, executions, or explosions. However, still in 2008 31 people have died per day.
31 people per day. Thats 217 people per week 868 per month, and 10416 people per year.
Just think about that for a moment Mark. Just stop the ridiculous rhetoric, political pandering, and whatever your personal pride for one moment and think about what you are saying. You are rejoicing that ‘only’ 10416 people are dying because of the war that you support.
And you call yourself a Christian, shame on you Mark. Shame on you. You know where you are going after this life and you will have to take this stain with you.
2. Danish Artist | May 31st, 2008 at 6:20 am
liberalhallucination,
Uh, more people have died in this country through senseless violence than war in Iraq.
How many people were raped, murdered and totured under the Hussein rule. How many were playthings to Uday and Quesa(sp)????
Perspective man, perspective.
3. Pain | May 31st, 2008 at 6:54 am
2. Danish Artist | May 31st, 2008 at 6:20 am
By no stretch of the imagination did more than 10 000 people die a year while Saddam Hussein was in power from cross cultural warfare as has been seen in Iraq. Did the deposed dictator and his sons torture rape and kill yes they did by the hundreds of people they did for sure, but that fact cannot be used as an excuse to prop up the failed mission to democratize Iraq by force.
And as far as the violence and crime in America goes We would posit that if there were electricity for only 3 hours or so a day in a city the size of say San Antonio with little running water or sanitation thing would get out of hand in a jiffy there too.
4. liberalDream | May 31st, 2008 at 7:05 am
perspective? Are you serious? Tell me exactly what perspective I have to get to see 10,000 people dying this year as something of a great accomplishment.. I certainly don’t want that sort of perspective.
5. neocon | May 31st, 2008 at 9:29 am
Danish posted the following article in an earlier thread and it needs to be read by everyone:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/29/AR2008052904116_pf.html
Liberals need to lose their tunnel vision and their thirst for power as they continue to denigrate the people of Iraq and the ISF. If only liberals could understand that this conflict is bigger than them and their selfish and faked noble desires. This is a struggle for future ME generations and their ability to maybe live one day free from tyranny and oppression and enjoy their God given human rights.
Funny how liberals are not supportive of that.
6. Marty13 | May 31st, 2008 at 10:03 am
As Sgt. Toomey opines in the movie Biloxi Blues, “you’re not soldiers yet but I might just put you up agains’t a buncha German cocktail waitresses.”
So after 5 years and how many tens of billions of training dollars….these guys are finally able to march in step. Wow!!!
This week I read that Iraq celebrated Army Day. The story was accompanied by pictures of Iraqi soldiers in close order drill and also..get this, jumping through flaming hoops.
I remember my first time jumping through a flaming hoop under fire.
I still have nightmares. ;)
7. Rich | May 31st, 2008 at 10:31 am
Hey, when is Obama going back to Iraq? Things look a little different since he declared defeat. It seems the lefties have stopped saying we lost in Basra finally.
8. Fish Fry | May 31st, 2008 at 11:00 am
A possible McCain and the conservatives’ campaign slogan, “America, the world’s arm pit crutch for the next 100 years.”
9. liberalDream | May 31st, 2008 at 12:36 pm
Deleted - obscenity.
10. Kurt | May 31st, 2008 at 12:55 pm
Liberal Dream
Now calm down and accept it. The news from Iraq is getting better, less people are dying. I know that just pisses you off, this being an election year, but be glad for the great improvement.
You talk of the 10,000 deaths a year but you refuse to accept the fact that most of those deaths are caused by the terrorists who bomb markets,schools,and whatever else is full of civilans.
The Surge has worked. The proof is in the downward trend of the casualties. It is nothing to be mad about,like you are.
11. liberalDream | May 31st, 2008 at 12:58 pm
Deleted - complains about comment policy.
12. Springtime In Iraq »&hellip | May 31st, 2008 at 3:59 pm
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13. Danish Artist | May 31st, 2008 at 7:53 pm
Pain,
Hussein used electricity, water, sanitation and food as controls on his people and rewards to his flunkies. More services have been provided now to the average citizen than before.
liberalhallucination,
Yes perspective. You bitch and moan about 10,000 in Iraq dying, but more die here and in liberal utopias of complete liberal government rule. But for those areas, what say you? What is your excuse? In liberal controlled bastions of DC, Detroit, Los Angeles, NYC, etc etc. people die there from senseless violence and they already live in a free republic.
I guess to you the people of Iraq were better off under Hussein, not deserving of freedom and are lesser people worthy of your notice, just as in the 90s by your party and President, who only took action in Iraq for a distraction.
I never said it was a great accomplishment, so take you lib bullshit elsewhere. It’s people like you that are the problem and nowhere new the part of the solution.
14. Danish Artist | June 1st, 2008 at 7:34 am
Way to go, carpe-diem, using my name in a false post!
Running out of ideas and now just in it for the sabotage???
Gee, I wonder where the spam, that plagues this site, is coming from?
I believe we have our answer.
15. Cavalor Epthith, Esquire, D.S.V.J. | June 1st, 2008 at 8:10 am
5. neocon | May 31st, 2008 at 9:29 am
Neocon you just made it clear why the Bush administration had to present Iraq and Saddam Hussein al Tikriti as a “clear and present danger” to the people of the Unitedf States as a casus belli. Otherwise the people of the USA would never have supported President Bush if he had said, “We will invade Iraq for the express purpose of installing a democratic government there after deposing Saddam Hussein in the hope such a democracy will spread to other Arab and Muslim nations.”
First of all the Arab League would have had a fit, second of all the phone from Riyadh to the State Department would have been ringing off the hook. If you want to examine a group of people who are angrier than “libruls” at the proofs offered by Scott McClellan in his book start reading english translations of newspapers in Saudi Arabia. You really cannot ignore them because they have a firm hand on the OPEC till. Word is that some of the younger more hot headed members of the House of Saud would like to start an oil bourse priced in €. That would be very bad for USA.