Mullen Warns Clinton, Obama on Iraq Pullout

I cannot believe this! The military really does want to keep "Bushies" and their minions in power! What happened to the concept of "citizen soldiers"? We seem to have things upside down in this country.
And what about taking care of our veterans and the soldiers returning from Iraq and Afghanistan? We are not doing so hot taking care of them. We need a new GI Bill and more safeguards against suicides of returning soldiers/ National Guardsmen.
You DO NOT have to be a Republican to be patriotic and love this country!

"[R]apid withdrawl" means, I guess, any period of time less than John McCain's promise of "100 years".

It was big mistake to go Iraq war but it will be a bigger mistake to pull out from Iraq too fast. The best plan to use back door to united nation (like use the allayed middle east countries to police each other. The advantage they have same culture, religion, understand the language and their appearance alone will help solve half of problems. Also the cost of the war will more economic.

It seems we need to remind the military who is in charge in this country. Mullen should be fired immediately for "warning" presidential candidates during an election campaign. period.
the democratic party should appeal to the supreme court. They probably wont do the right thing, but at least we'll know what's happening in this country,
remember Mcarthur vs Truman.

What gains is he talking about, gains for all those private companies the U.S. has in that country??? there is more private security than U.S. solders imagine that, guess who pays for al that private security and contractors??? you guessed it, they still have'nt found the 8 billion in cash.

Adm. Mullen's comments were not a reversal for him. He has always maintained that conditions on the ground in Iraq should dominate any decision about troop reductions, and he has never said at any time that he either favors or opposes a "pause." Indeed, while he continues work on the Joint Chiefs' assessment of progress in Iraq, he has tried to remain open-minded to all options. Nor should his comments be construed as a challenge to any particular presidential candidate. He has consistently and repeatedly resisted a hasty withdrawal from Iraq not based on operational conditions.

CAPT John F. Kirby
Special Assistant to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff for Public Affairs

OBAMA BEING LESS THAN HONEST ABOUT NAFTA.DO NOT BELIEVE HIM MY FRIENDS.

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Latest terror craze: The 'Sticky IED'
BAGHDAD — A new type of improvised explosive device in Iraq has been taped underneath cars and stuck to fuel trucks, animals and women.
Official said Iraq Army has found a new and much lighter IED typically attached to cars and other vehicles. The weapon, dubbed "sticky IED," has consisted of a small plastic explosive wrapped in duct tape."They are just small plastic bombs that include highly explosive material and they can be moved manually," Iraq Army Maj. Gen. Qassim Atta, spokesman for Operation Law and Order, said. "And they are put beneath any car and triggered through a remote control."

Terror trial exposes network of terror camps in picturesque rural England
LONDON: Clad in mud-smeared combat fatigues, the young Muslim men trained in picturesque British farmland, hurling imaginary grenades, wielding sticks as mock rifles and chopping watermelons in simulated beheadings.
Security officials believe hundreds of men — Including a gang of North African men who made a failed attempt to bomb London's transit network on July 21, 2005 — two weeks after the July 7 subway and bus strikes that killed 52 commuters — met and were trained at one of the camps, the official said. The British camps, which gave instruction to about 10 men at a time, also offer a glimpse of the training centers British-based radicals hoped to open in Oregon, in the United States, before authorities halted their plans.

How would YOU fight the war on terrorism? All you arm chair second guessers? The war on terror is NOTHING like the Vietnam war. The do nothing Clinton White House actions or more appropriate non actions emboldened terrorists. If that is the world you want to live in then by all means put them back in Washington. Or elect Senator Obama. Despite the rhetoric of these two, they have the same basic message. Gonna feel safer with a President who Arab Nations want to see in the White House? Or the one who gave the Cray computer to the Chinese? Ya they want them back in. Welcome to the year of the Rat.

Whenever the Bushies get afraid of losing their Oil Revenue in Iraq, they pull the "We must stay or else..." propaganda. The Bushies plan to stay in Iraq for 100 years to STEAL THEIR OIL and John Mccain is a continuation of the STEALING OF IRAQ OIL and murdering of their citizens to stay in Iraq policy,.

To HillaryPlaysDirty....In your piece (below), you parrot the national anthem of the Bush haters - Bush Lied To Steal Their Oil.

HillaryPlaysDirty9:01AMFeb 29th 2008

Whenever the Bushies get afraid of losing their Oil Revenue in Iraq, they pull the "We must stay or else..." propaganda. The Bushies plan to stay in Iraq for 100 years to STEAL THEIR OIL and John Mccain is a continuation of the STEALING OF IRAQ OIL and murdering of their citizens to stay in Iraq policy,.


I ask you: where is your proof? How do you know that Mr. Bush or any other non-Iraqui person has profited from oil stolen from their fields? Give me just one confirmed and provable instance.... just one... one that can be researched and given credibility.

Until that proof is given, your accusations are foolish and shows that you are not thinking for yourself.... just repeating what the conspiracy theorists are feeding you. You should DEMAND the same of them instead of just swallowing their hatred and lies hook line and sinker.

If we make a rapid withdraw out of Iraq we will be letting down those who died for freedom(the American soldier) please do not forget their sacrifice. by withdrawing from Iraq we could be letting terrorists and dictators have control.

If we make a rapid withdraw out of Iraq we will be letting down those
who died for freedom(the American soldiers who died in service to their country) please do not forget their
sacrifice. by withdrawing from Iraq we could be letting terrorists
and dictators have control of that region.

Gains in Iraq? The other day I was driving home when the radio news reported the days deaths in Iraq. Counting civilians and soldiers it added up to 97.

Didn't read about it in the newspaper or see it online but the question remains, how is apprx/ 100 deaths a day progress? Well, these deaths did not occur in Bagdad. They were provincial deaths. Since the press is headquartered in Bagdad and since Bagdad has been cordoned off by troops it appears that the violence is occurring elsewhere but still occurring. Its just too hard to report far away bombings and therefore it seems that we are making more progress than we really are.

As Buckley said. All Bush had to do was watch "Lawrence of Arabia" to realize that his plan would never work.

Obama's biggest advantage against ANYONE is the MEDIA! Let’s face it, according to the media, Hillary Rodham Clinton can’t do anything right and Barack Hussein Obama can’t do anything wrong. Poor Obama. I seem to recall Obama recently saying "its all about the delegates". Now he is spouting that the popular vote is what the superdelegates need to vote on. Hmmm which is it? Obama needs less of "yes we can" and a lot of 'how he can'. We need experience in the Oval Office and Obama does not have it. Vote Hillary! She is a candidate of action…he is a candidate of words. We need experience in these hard times.

We Know the Clinton’s

We know John McCain

We don’t know Barack Obama.

I don’t like what I know about the Clinton’s.

John McCain is a Clone of George Bush!

I’ll take a chance on Barack Obama.

He has to be better then the other two choices!

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That the votes of white MEN will likely determine the Democratic presidential nominee actually makes a great deal of sense. After all, American participation in the Iraq War has been overwhelmingly the burden of white MEN...or, at least, of MEN. (MEN account for approximately 98% of the 4,000 American soldiers who have lost their lives in Iraq since March 2003.) Anyone who genuinely supports the principle of equality of rights under the law ought to be asking why Hillary Clinton should even be eligible to be elected President and serve as Commander-in-Chief. Because of her sex, Ms. Clinton was exempt from the most onerous burden of citizenship and was never required to register for the draft. Her male contemporaries, however, were not nearly as fortunate. Because they were male, tens of thousands of them were forced to "serve" against their will in a hideous war in the hellhole that was Vietnam. Tragically, many of them perished. Since being elected to the US Senate, Ms. Clinton has done nothing to end male-only Selective Service registration -- the most egregious extant sex discrimination under federal law. I have little doubt that if elected President, Ms. Clinton (who happens to be the leading recipient of campaign contributions from defense contractors) will readily send MEN -- like expendable drones -- to fight and die to protect and preserve HER freedom. A vote for Hillary Clinton is a vote for hypocrisy...and sexism.

That the votes of white MEN will likely determine the Democratic presidential nominee actually makes a great deal of sense. After all, American participation in the Iraq War has been overwhelmingly the burden of white MEN...or, at least, of MEN. (MEN account for approximately 98% of the 4,000 American soldiers who have lost their lives in Iraq since March 2003.) Anyone who genuinely supports the principle of equality of rights under the law ought to be asking why Hillary Clinton should even be eligible to be elected President and serve as Commander-in-Chief. Because of her sex, Ms. Clinton was exempt from the most onerous burden of citizenship and was never required to register for the draft. Her male contemporaries, however, were not nearly as fortunate. Because they were male, tens of thousands of them were forced to "serve" against their will in a hideous war in the hellhole that was Vietnam. Tragically, many of them perished. Since being elected to the US Senate, Ms. Clinton has done nothing to end male-only Selective Service registration -- the most egregious extant sex discrimination under federal law. I have little doubt that if elected President, Ms. Clinton (who happens to be the leading recipient of campaign contributions from defense contractors) will readily send MEN -- like expendable drones -- to fight and die to protect and preserve HER freedom. A vote for Hillary Clinton is a vote for hypocrisy...and sexism.