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Our Work Is Done Here

by Tim F|  September 25, 20079:14 am| 17 Comments

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Civil war has been averted in Iraq and Iranian intervention there has “ceased to exist,” Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki said yesterday.

Super. So what will next week’s American casualties have died for? Let’s go home.

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  1. 1.

    Bob In Pacifica

    September 25, 2007 at 9:21 am

    Not until the oil under the sand has ceased to exist.

  2. 2.

    The Other Steve

    September 25, 2007 at 9:23 am

    Oh thank god. We can go home now.

  3. 3.

    The Other Steve

    September 25, 2007 at 9:24 am

    It’s funny. If Democrats cheered all the good news… it’s certain the Republicans would be claiming Iraq is in really bad shape, which is why we need to stay there.

  4. 4.

    Zifnab

    September 25, 2007 at 9:37 am

    Great. Time to declare victory and get the hell out. If Iraq crumbles into ruin a week after we leave, it’s only because the Iraqis didn’t want Democracy strongly enough.

  5. 5.

    Tom Gellhaus

    September 25, 2007 at 9:43 am

    If the Republicans acknowledge this, they will insist that it is vitally important that American troops stay (for a few years of course), to “help.” Or to “prevent a resumption of attacks by those eeeeevil Iranians”. Or something.

    But to bring our troops home to safety, getting them well deserved rest and equipment upgrades?
    Nah. Then they can’t blame the (new) Democratic president, in 2010, for the sorry state of our armed forces, can they ?

  6. 6.

    KCinDC

    September 25, 2007 at 9:44 am

    Iranian intervention has ceased to exist? Al-Maliki is seriously off message. He’ll be getting a call from Cheney.

  7. 7.

    whippoorwill

    September 25, 2007 at 10:01 am

    The Maliki idea of progress.

    http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/23/world/middleeast/23shiites.html

  8. 8.

    Jake

    September 25, 2007 at 10:17 am

    And the backpeddaling will begin in 5…4…3…

    The soldiers can come home, Maliki can keep the Blackwater Goons Squad.

  9. 9.

    Jake

    September 25, 2007 at 10:23 am

    Al-Maliki is seriously off message. He’ll be getting a call from Cheney.

    “I can’t say there is a picture of roses and flowers in Iraq,”

    Uh huh: “That’s flowers and candies, you idiot! Mwah, mwah, mwah!”

  10. 10.

    Punchy

    September 25, 2007 at 10:34 am

    It’s funny. If Democrats cheered all the good news… it’s certain the Republicans would be claiming Iraq is in really bad shape, which is why we need to stay there

    Hence my comment on the other thread….somebody…PLEASE.. go check Powerlie and RudeState and let us know what their response is. You’d THINK they’d be estatic and claiming VICTORY!…my guess is that they’ll merely take the opposite tack that the Dems adopt, no matter what it is.

  11. 11.

    Ellison, Ellensburg, Ellers, and Lambchop

    September 25, 2007 at 1:22 pm

    Don’t question the programmed lefty killbots’ support for the troops!

    AMSTERDAM, Netherlands (AP) – A U.S. citizen has confessed to using an axe to kill a Dutch student after failing to find a soldier to attack, his lawyer said Tuesday.

    The suspect, Carlos Hartmann, 41, of Tecumseh, Mich., has confessed to the Sept. 8 killing on a train platform in the southern city of Roosendaal, defence lawyer Peter Gremmen said.

    Gremmen said Hartmann wanted to punish the Netherlands for its support of the war in Iraq.

    Hartmann appeared before a judge Tuesday and was ordered held for another two weeks for investigation.

    “He hates soldiers, and says that the army kills people, so it would be legitimate if he were also to kill someone . . . from the American military – or from its NATO allies,” Gremmen said in a telephone interview.

    When he failed to find a soldier at the Roosendaal train station, “he got such a crazy, disturbed idea that he killed a civilian,” Gremmen said.

  12. 12.

    Tim F.

    September 25, 2007 at 1:32 pm

    Wow. I bet that guy represents the entire Left. Composition fallacy for teh win!

  13. 13.

    KCinDC

    September 25, 2007 at 2:14 pm

    And here I’d thought Lambchop actually wasn’t a spoof (unlike most of the other Bushites here).

  14. 14.

    les

    September 25, 2007 at 3:47 pm

    Well, the guy’s got the drill down. “I wasn’t sure I found an insurgent, so I killed some civilians…”

  15. 15.

    Make7

    September 25, 2007 at 3:54 pm

    So what will next week’s American casualties have died for?

    Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki will announce next week that there are no American casualties for that week.

  16. 16.

    ThymeZone

    September 25, 2007 at 4:18 pm

    And here I’d thought Lambchop

    Blew his thin cover a long time ago.

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