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You are here: Home / Foreign Affairs / Military / Faith-based Belligerence

Faith-based Belligerence

by John Cole|  July 6, 200712:44 pm| 35 Comments

This post is in: Military, War on Terror aka GSAVE®

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Really. We should trust everything our military leaders tell us about Iran:

The U.S. command in Baghdad this week ballyhooed the killing of a key al Qaeda leader but later admitted that the military had declared him dead a year ago.

A military spokesman acknowledged the mistake after it was called to his attention by The Examiner. He said public affairs officers will be more careful in announcing significant kills.

The incident shows the eagerness of the command to show progress in dismantling al Qaeda at a time when Democrats and some Republicans are pressing President Bush to withdraw troops from Iraq. Army Gen. David Petraeus, the top U.S. commander, has declared al Qaeda enemy No. 1 in Iraq.

Brig. Gen. Kevin Bergner began his Monday news conference with a list of top insurgents either killed or captured in recent operations. He said they had been eliminated “in the past few weeks” and were “recent results.”

Yes. That is the same Brig. Gen. Bergner that Holy Joe mentioned earlier.

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  1. 1.

    Jake

    July 6, 2007 at 1:03 pm

    The U.S. command in Baghdad this week ballyhooed the killing of a key al Qaeda leader but later admitted that the military had declared him dead a year ago.

    When you consider the fact that every other person killed in Iraq is either a Key Al Qaida Member, a Very Important Al Qaida Deputy or Bin Laden’s Number Two Commander in Iraq, I can see how they would get confused.

  2. 2.

    pop

    July 6, 2007 at 1:07 pm

    Breaking News: Francisco Franco is still dead.

  3. 3.

    Dennis-SGMM

    July 6, 2007 at 1:15 pm

    Both the military and the administration (Whom I trust implicitly of course.) are now identifying everyone who’s fighting our troops as Al-Qaeda means that there must be a buttload of new Al-Qaeda members in Iraq.

    The fact that they went from hiding in caves to raising hell with 150,000 American troops means suggests that their plans are working better than ours.

  4. 4.

    ThymeZone

    July 6, 2007 at 1:22 pm

    We should trust everything our military leaders tell us about Iran:

    We should. We should trust it all to be lies and bullshit. Any other assumption would require suspension of disbelief, based on the last six years’ performance.

    I wouldn’t believe anything these people said about anything at this point. I’d start with the proposition that it’s about 180 degrees away from the truth.

  5. 5.

    RSA

    July 6, 2007 at 1:23 pm

    Both the military and the administration (Whom I trust implicitly of course.) are now identifying everyone who’s fighting our troops as Al-Qaeda means that there must be a buttload of new Al-Qaeda members in Iraq.

    This is something I hadn’t noticed until reading up on it, the shift in phrasing. It’s pretty scary to think that the U.S. commander in Iraq is saying something that’s so obviously off-base. You’d think that correctly identifying whom you’re fighting against would be a critical part of running a war.

  6. 6.

    srv

    July 6, 2007 at 1:27 pm

    Bergner was a White House assistant up until about a month ago when they shipped him over as General Spinmiester.

    Clearly, GW is grooming the next generation of parrot generals.

  7. 7.

    srv

    July 6, 2007 at 1:30 pm

    You’d think that correctly identifying whom you’re fighting against would be a critical part of running a war.

    You and I both know he can’t tell the truth about Pelosi, Reid and what not.

  8. 8.

    RSA

    July 6, 2007 at 1:36 pm

    You and I both know he can’t tell the truth about Pelosi, Reid and what not.

    Good point; I’d forgotten that us versus them actually does describe the situation pretty well.

  9. 9.

    Zifnab

    July 6, 2007 at 1:44 pm

    You and I both know he can’t tell the truth about Pelosi, Reid and what not.

    You know, I’m waiting for the day someone final slips and says, “We’ve defeated the insurgents in Bagdad, and we’re pursuing them into Al-Anbar province, were we have Sunni tribesmen and Shiite militias battling liberal Al-Qaeda insurgents.. I mean liberal Democrats.. I mean Al-Qaeda Democrats.. I mean, um… support the troops!”

  10. 10.

    les

    July 6, 2007 at 1:46 pm

    No wonder the right wingers are so terrified of Al Qaeda. The fuckers can come back from the dead.

  11. 11.

    tBone

    July 6, 2007 at 1:51 pm

    The fact that they went from hiding in caves to raising hell with 150,000 American troops means suggests that their plans are working better than ours.

    Silly liberal. It means no such thing. What it does mean is that the flypaper strategy is working – the terraists have been lured from their caves and are now hopelessly stuck to the gluey surface of Iraq.

    If you weren’t blinded by your BDS, you’d see that we’ve turned a corner by fighting them over there so we don’t have to fight them over here. Now they’re in their last throes and we can start to stand down as they stand up. Just wait six months and you’ll see.

  12. 12.

    Dennis-SGMM

    July 6, 2007 at 1:56 pm

    You’d think that correctly identifying whom you’re fighting against would be a critical part of running a war.

    True that, but if they admit that they’re essentially fighting everyone who has a weapon and a gripe then they’d have to admit that four years of American intervention have turned Iraq into a hopeless cluster.

    Identifying all insurgents as Al-Qaeda means that the mess isn’t Bush’s fault – it’s that mean old Al-Qaeda hatin’ on our freedoms again. They’ll spin this every way they can to drag out the war past the end of the Bush maladministration then they’ll blame Democrats, the media the Iranians and Al-Qaeda for the collapse of Iraq.

  13. 13.

    Punchy

    July 6, 2007 at 2:11 pm

    Shall I assume that at least Britain is now unwilling to utilize that stupid, annoying “we’re fighting them over there so we dont fight them here” bullshit?

  14. 14.

    The Other Steve

    July 6, 2007 at 2:11 pm

    Between the Al Qaeda zombies and the Islamofascist killer robots, I’m no longer certain who I should be more terrified of.

  15. 15.

    RSA

    July 6, 2007 at 2:19 pm

    When you turn the corner on a flypaper strategy, doesn’t it get all wrinkled up and not work any more?

  16. 16.

    tBone

    July 6, 2007 at 2:36 pm

    When you turn the corner on a flypaper strategy, doesn’t it get all wrinkled up and not work any more?

    No, it just squishes terrorists. Please leave the strategic thinking to the experts, RSA.

  17. 17.

    CaseyL

    July 6, 2007 at 2:46 pm

    No wonder the right wingers are so terrified of Al Qaeda. The fuckers can come back from the dead.

    QotD.

  18. 18.

    Cain

    July 6, 2007 at 2:56 pm

    No wonder the right wingers are so terrified of Al Qaeda. The fuckers can come back from the dead.

    Who the hell would leave 72 virgins behind and come back? I for one am outraged.

    sri

  19. 19.

    Jake

    July 6, 2007 at 3:13 pm

    Who the hell would leave 72 virgins behind and come back? I for one am outraged.

    Yikes, those virgins sure are cranky. No wonder the SunniShiaBaathistInsurgentTerrorists, keep coming back for more jihad.

  20. 20.

    Cain

    July 6, 2007 at 3:36 pm

    Same ol story. Like all men, they have to ditch the women so they can go out and have some fun. It’s why I don’t believe in an after life where I’m outnumbered by the opposite sex.

    cain

  21. 21.

    chopper

    July 6, 2007 at 4:12 pm

    bin laden needs to stop dressing all of his underlings in red shirts.

  22. 22.

    Rome Again

    July 6, 2007 at 5:16 pm

    Same ol story. Like all men, they have to ditch the women so they can go out and have some fun. It’s why I don’t believe in an after life where I’m outnumbered by the opposite sex.

    I heard you were un-Abel.

  23. 23.

    Fruitbat Jones

    July 6, 2007 at 5:17 pm

    Sorry to go OT, but this is most certainly, without any doubt, THE most heinous, incredibly disgusting, vile thing I have EVER heard of.

    Don’t read this if you’ve just eaten. I want to cry.

    It ain’t political, but still…damn….damn.

  24. 24.

    Bombadil

    July 6, 2007 at 5:32 pm

    This time of year, everything’s a rerun.

  25. 25.

    SPIIDERWEB™

    July 6, 2007 at 8:48 pm

    Ah, you have to access CENTCOM.

  26. 26.

    richard

    July 6, 2007 at 8:49 pm

    kill me once, shame on me/
    kill me twice..won’t get killed again.
    Heh

  27. 27.

    Cain

    July 6, 2007 at 9:40 pm

    I am fully cap-abel of leaving heaven whenever I want and come back and get jiggy with the my homies.

    cain

  28. 28.

    Perry Como

    July 6, 2007 at 10:11 pm

    Shall I assume that at least Britain is now unwilling to utilize that stupid, annoying “we’re fighting them over there so we dont fight them here” bullshit?

    Listen up moonbat. Those guys were just terrorists in hiding. If it wasn’t for the Iraq war, they never would have had a reason to commit terrorist acts in the UK. It’s a good thing Iraq was invaded so we could show those terrorists for their true colors.

  29. 29.

    jake

    July 7, 2007 at 9:03 am

    It’s a good thing Iraq was invaded so we could show those terrorists for their true colors.

    [sings a la Glinda]

    Come out, Come out,
    Where ever you are!
    Stock up on petrol,
    and blow up your car!

    Yesterday (?) the pants wetting talking point was that some of the suspects arrested in connection with the lamest terror attack EvA applied for entry into the US. I feel really sorry for any foreign-born doctors. No, I feel really sorry for any health care professionals who look like they might be foreign born.

  30. 30.

    grumpy realist

    July 7, 2007 at 9:07 am

    If we allow Joe Lieberman and the rest of the neo-cons push us into a war with Iran, we WILL deserve everything that happens to us.

    $200/bbl oil, anyone?

    The Chinese must be sitting their laughing their asses off watching the US prove a) it can’t do anything properly b) can’t think of any way of interacting with the world besides bombing something, and c) is totally ignoring the very real power that China has been accumulating.

    Oh, and the fact that we have this crazy Mideast obsession when anyone looking from a strategic viewpoint would realize that the best thing is to stay out of the place.

  31. 31.

    Zifnab

    July 7, 2007 at 9:44 am

    Don’t read this if you’ve just eaten. I want to cry.

    Yesh. Someone clearly saw one too many screenings of A Clockwork Orange. That’s a bit nuts.

  32. 32.

    Andrew

    July 7, 2007 at 10:32 am

    Who the hell would leave 72 virgins behind and come back? I for one am outraged.

    Turns out that they didn’t wax. And they all got headaches around the same time, and trust me, you don’t want to be stuck with 72 PMS’ing women.

  33. 33.

    Chad N. Freude

    July 7, 2007 at 1:06 pm

    Someone clearly saw one too many screenings of A Clockwork Orange Saw and Hostel.

    Fixed. A Clockwork Orange is a good movie with a serious social context.

  34. 34.

    mclaren

    July 7, 2007 at 4:31 pm

    This illustrates the crucial importance of the war on terror. We’re fighting zombies!

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