Politics > Politics-USA > "My fellow Americans, major combat operations in Iraq have ended" 01.24.2004
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"My fellow Americans, major combat operations in Iraq have ended" 01.24.2004 |
President Bush proclaimed aboard the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln on
May 1, 2003:
Admiral Kelly, Captain Card (ph), officers and sailors of the USS Abraham
Lincoln, my fellow Americans, major combat operations in Iraq have ended. In
the battle of Iraq, the United States and our allies have prevailed.
http://www.milparts.net/bush-on-uss-lincoln.html
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Explosions in Iraq Harm U.S. Soldiers
Saturday, January 24, 2004
BAGHDAD, Iraq - Two American soldiers and three Iraqis were killed in
separate bomb attacks Saturday, a day after two U.N. security experts
arrived in the capital to study the possible return of the world body's
international staff.
The American soldiers were killed by a roadside bomb that struck their
convoy near Fallujah (search), a city 50 miles west of Baghdad in an area
that has been a center of anti-American resistance.
The latest deaths brought to 509 the number of American service members who
have died since the United States and its allies launched the Iraq war March
20.
In another attack, a truck bomb exploded soon after a U.S. patrol passed by
in Samarra (search), which also is in the restive so-called Sunni Triangle
(search), an area north and west of Baghdad that is home to diehard Saddam
Hussein loyalists who have been blamed for most of the insurgent attacks on
civilians and U.S. forces.
The blast killed three Iraqis and wounded 40 people including seven American
soldiers, Capt. Jennifer Knight of the 720th Military Police Battalion said.
The American military police patrol was turning into a police station to
join Iraqi police when the explosion occurred behind it, Sgt. Maj. Nathan
Wilson of the 720th Military Police Battalion.
Despite Saddam's capture on Dec. 13, insurgents loyal to him have continued
to attack police stations and U.S. troops.
Also Saturday, at least one sniper in a building shot and wounded an
American soldier who was in a foot patrol in a Baghdad neighborhood, Maj.
Kevin West said.
A bridge across the Tigris River in Baghdad, leading to the coalition
headquarters, was closed by U.S. troops for two hours Saturday. Witnesses
said they were searching for a bomb, but this could not be independently
confirmed.
Baghdad has been a frequent target of insurgents. In one of the deadliest
attacks, the U.N. headquarters in the capital was bombed in August, killing
22 people including top U.N. envoy Sergio Vieira de Mello. U.N.
Secretary-General Kofi Annan (search) withdrew all foreign U.N. staff in
October.
A U.N. military adviser and a security coordinator arrived Friday in
Baghdad, the first foreign staff to return since then.
They planned to meet with officials from the U.S.-led coalition and inspect
buildings the world body might use, U.N. spokesman Stephane Dujarric said.
"Their primary focus will be to open lines of communication ... and also to
look after the interests of our national staff in Iraq," Dujarric said.
Annan also is considering sending a separate security team that would be
needed if he decides to send experts to Iraq to determine whether direct
elections for a transitional government were feasible.
That team would help resolve a dispute between the coalition and Iraq's
leading Shiite Muslim cleric, Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Husseini al-Sistani
(search), who is demanding direct elections as opposed to a U.S. plan calls
for letting regional caucuses choose a legislature. The legislature would
then name a new Iraqi government that will take over from the coalition on
July 1, under the U.S. plan adopted on Nov. 15.
Abdul-Aziz al-Hakim (search), a Shiite leader, said Friday the plan "as it
stands ... is unacceptable." But Americans and others are slowly coming
around to the need for elections, he said.
Al-Hakim, who was among members of a Governing Council delegation that met
with President Bush on Tuesday at the White House, heads the Supreme Council
for the Islamic Revolution (search) in Iraq, the country's most powerful
Shiite political group.
He said if the U.N. experts conclude an early vote is not feasible, then
sovereignty could be handed over to the U.S.-installed Iraqi Governing
Council (search). But he added it was "a last-resort option."
Al-Hakim's views carry considerable weight in Iraq, where the Shiite
majority has risen to dominate the political scene after decades of
suppression by the Sunni Arab minority.
The United States maintains that it is impossible to hold elections in such
a short time given the lack of a census and electoral rolls and the
continuing violence.
The Bush administration said Friday that it was holding to its July 1
deadline for ending the U.S. occupation but the method of selecting a new
government wasn't decided.
"We have an open mind about how to most effectively facilitate an orderly
transfer of sovereignty," State Department deputy spokesman Adam Ereli said.
Under the U.S. power-transfer plan, Iraqis also will vote early next year to
chose delegates who will draft a constitution. The draft will later be
adopted in a national referendum. The third and final 2005 vote, under the
plan, is to elect a new parliament.
On Friday, a U.S. Army OH-58 Kiowa Warrior helicopter attached crashed in
northern Iraq, killing the two pilots, the U.S. military said. The deaths
raised the American forces' death toll in the Iraq conflict to 507. The
cause of the crash was unclear.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,109393,00.html
--
"From the brief time that we did spend occupying Iraqi territory
after the war, I am certain that had we taken all of Iraq, we would
have been like the dinosaur in the tar pit - we would still be there,
and we, not the United Nations, would be bearing the costs of
the occupation. This is a burden I am sure the beleaguered
American taxpayer would not have been happy to take on."
- Norman Schwarzkopf, from his 1993 autobiography, "It Doesn't
Take a Hero."
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| User: "Christian Williamson" |
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| Title: Re: "My fellow Americans, major combat operations in Iraq have ended"01.24.2004 |
24 Jan 2004 08:30:32 AM |
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NotBush2004 wrote:
President Bush proclaimed aboard the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln on
May 1, 2003:
Admiral Kelly, Captain Card (ph), officers and sailors of the USS Abraham
Lincoln, my fellow Americans, major combat operations in Iraq have ended. In
the battle of Iraq, the United States and our allies have prevailed.
http://www.milparts.net/bush-on-uss-lincoln.html
He was right, too. Along with that, he said there was still a lot of
work to do.
The Sunni Triangle is still a point of resistance. And you're gleeful
about that, aren't you, Bush-hater?
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| User: "NotBush2004" |
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| Title: Re: "My fellow Americans, major combat operations in Iraq have ended" 01.24.2004 |
24 Jan 2004 10:10:32 AM |
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"Christian Williamson" <cdwilli@erols.com> wrote in message
news:40128186$0$7336$61fed72c@news.rcn.com...
NotBush2004 wrote:
President Bush proclaimed aboard the aircraft carrier USS Abraham
Lincoln on
May 1, 2003:
Admiral Kelly, Captain Card (ph), officers and sailors of the USS
Abraham
Lincoln, my fellow Americans, major combat operations in Iraq have
ended. In
the battle of Iraq, the United States and our allies have prevailed.
http://www.milparts.net/bush-on-uss-lincoln.html
He was right, too. Along with that, he said there was still a lot of
work to do.
Tell that to the thousands of American families that have had their loved
ones killed or wounded in Iraq chasing Bush's fantasies.
The Sunni Triangle is still a point of resistance.
I can remember as clearly as if it were yesterday Cheney on Meet the Press
telling the American public that in all likelihood the Iraqis would lay
their arms down and welcome U.S. soldiers with open arms. That was a lie
too.
And you're gleeful about that, aren't you, Bush-hater?
Who could be gleeful about Americans and Iraqis being killed and wounded
daily in Iraq because of Bush's lies? I don't waste my time hating Bush,
Bush's administration is indicative of a much larger problem in American
society, it is indicative of the secrecy, corruption and greed that has
become the hallmark of American politics and the society itself.
--
"It is incomprehensible that the administration could give Halliburton
another billion-dollar contract without fully investigating such criminal
wrongdoing," Waxman said in a letter to Rep. Thomas M. Davis III (R-Va.)
chairman of the House Government Reform Committee, in which he asked for
hearings on the Halliburton contracts. ***** Cheney was chief executive of
Halliburton before being elected vice president.
washingtonpost.com
Saturday, January 24, 2004
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| User: "Steven Litvintchouk" |
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| Title: Re: "My fellow Americans, major combat operations in Iraq have ended"01.24.2004 |
24 Jan 2004 06:30:21 PM |
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NotBush2004 wrote:
"Christian Williamson" <cdwilli@erols.com> wrote in message
news:40128186$0$7336$61fed72c@news.rcn.com...
NotBush2004 wrote:
President Bush proclaimed aboard the aircraft carrier USS Abraham
Lincoln on
May 1, 2003:
Admiral Kelly, Captain Card (ph), officers and sailors of the USS
Abraham
Lincoln, my fellow Americans, major combat operations in Iraq have
ended. In
the battle of Iraq, the United States and our allies have prevailed.
http://www.milparts.net/bush-on-uss-lincoln.html
He was right, too. Along with that, he said there was still a lot of
work to do.
Tell that to the thousands of American families that have had their loved
ones killed or wounded in Iraq chasing Bush's fantasies.
The Sunni Triangle is still a point of resistance.
I can remember as clearly as if it were yesterday Cheney on Meet the Press
telling the American public that in all likelihood the Iraqis would lay
their arms down and welcome U.S. soldiers with open arms. That was a lie
too.
And you're gleeful about that, aren't you, Bush-hater?
Who could be gleeful about Americans and Iraqis being killed and wounded
daily in Iraq because of Bush's lies?
I'm sure you're praying every single night that we don't capture Osama
bin Laden before the November elections. Run, Osama, run! Give
yourself up only to a Democrat!
-- Steven L.
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| User: "wmd_yeah_right" |
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| Title: Re: "My fellow Americans, major combat operations in Iraq have ended" 01.24.2004 |
24 Jan 2004 01:28:04 PM |
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Christian Williamson <cdwilli@erols.com> wrote in message news:<40128186$0$7336$61fed72c@news.rcn.com>...
NotBush2004 wrote:
He was right, too. Along with that, he said there was still a lot of
work to do.
The Sunni Triangle is still a point of resistance. And you're gleeful
about that, aren't you, Bush-hater?
Telling Bush that his decision to go to war cost us dearly in term of
money and lives are not the same as hating him. CNN reports 5 more US
service men died in an insurgent attack in the Suni triangle today.
Vote bush out of the office is the right thing to do.
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| User: "Christian Williamson" |
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| Title: Re: "My fellow Americans, major combat operations in Iraq have ended"01.24.2004 |
24 Jan 2004 01:51:11 PM |
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wmd_yeah_right wrote:
Christian Williamson <cdwilli@erols.com> wrote in message news:<40128186$0$7336$61fed72c@news.rcn.com>...
NotBush2004 wrote:
He was right, too. Along with that, he said there was still a lot of
work to do.
The Sunni Triangle is still a point of resistance. And you're gleeful
about that, aren't you, Bush-hater?
Telling Bush that his decision to go to war cost us dearly in term of
money and lives are not the same as hating him.
Apparently you don't read the posts around here.
CNN reports 5 more US
service men died in an insurgent attack in the Suni triangle today.
Vote bush out of the office is the right thing to do.
Bush has my vote. Unlike you liberals, who think this is a law
enforcement issue, Bush realizes this is a war for western civilization.
The Muslims extremists must be crushed, completely. And Bush is the man
to do it.
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| User: "wmd_yeah_right" |
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| Title: Re: "My fellow Americans, major combat operations in Iraq have ended" 01.24.2004 |
24 Jan 2004 05:37:04 PM |
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Christian Williamson <cdwilli@erols.com> wrote in message news:<4012ccae$0$7333$61fed72c@news.rcn.com>...
wmd_yeah_right wrote:
Christian Williamson <cdwilli@erols.com> wrote in message news:<40128186$0$7336$61fed72c@news.rcn.com>...
NotBush2004 wrote:
He was right, too. Along with that, he said there was still a lot of
work to do.
The Sunni Triangle is still a point of resistance. And you're gleeful
about that, aren't you, Bush-hater?
Telling Bush that his decision to go to war cost us dearly in term of
money and lives are not the same as hating him.
Apparently you don't read the posts around here.
I do. I don't like Bush either, but that's not the same as hating him.
CNN reports 5 more US
service men died in an insurgent attack in the Suni triangle today.
Vote bush out of the office is the right thing to do.
Bush has my vote. Unlike you liberals, who think this is a law
enforcement issue, Bush realizes this is a war for western civilization.
The Muslims extremists must be crushed, completely. And Bush is the man
to do it.
At whatever the cost heh? It's hard to argue with a true believer like
yourself who, like Bush, don't seem to blink at the loss we suffer every
day for this unnecessary war.
Bush must go!
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| User: "Fair and Balanced Hyco-Limbaugh Fart Detector" |
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24 Jan 2004 09:37:33 AM |
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On Sat, 24 Jan 2004 09:30:32 -0500, Christian Williamson
<cdwilli@erols.com> wrote:
NotBush2004 wrote:
President Bush proclaimed aboard the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln on
May 1, 2003:
Admiral Kelly, Captain Card (ph), officers and sailors of the USS Abraham
Lincoln, my fellow Americans, major combat operations in Iraq have ended. In
the battle of Iraq, the United States and our allies have prevailed.
http://www.milparts.net/bush-on-uss-lincoln.html
He was right, too. Along with that, he said there was still a lot of
work to do.
The Sunni Triangle is still a point of resistance. And you're gleeful
about that, aren't you, Bush-hater?
Glee? Its more like "I told you so" when you're affected by the
dumbbell's bad decision.
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