Politics > Politics-USA > "My fellow Americans, major combat operations in Iraq have ended." 11.04.03
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"Tom Jefferson" |
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04 Nov 2003 11:16:38 AM |
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"My fellow Americans, major combat operations in Iraq have ended." 11.04.03 |
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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Huge Explosions Rock Central Baghdad; Spain Pulls Diplomats Because of
Deteriorating Security
The Associated Press
BAGHDAD, Iraq Nov. 4 - Huge explosions rocked central Baghdad late Tuesday
and smoke could be seen rising close to the compound used as a headquarters
of the U.S. occupation.
Four large explosions could be heard about 7:45 p.m. along the Tigris River.
The smoke appeared coming from the northern end of the sprawling U.S.
compound near the al-Jamhuriya Bridge which crosses the Tigris. There was no
immediate word available from U.S. military officials.
It was the second straight night of heavy explosions in the center of the
Iraqi capital. About three mortars impacted on the city late Monday. U.S.
authorities said at least one hit a U.S. Army base but caused no damage or
casualties.
Meanwhile, Spain, one of America's closest allies in Iraq, announced it was
withdrawing most of its diplomats from Baghdad because of deteriorating
security, as guerrillas fired grenades at a hotel filled with Americans in
the north and killed a U.S. soldier in the capital.
Foreign Minister Ana Palacio said the Spanish Embassy will remain open,
however all but four of the 29-member staff would leave, most for Amman,
Jordan. Spain has about 1,300 soldiers in Iraq and was one of the strongest
supporters of the U.S.-led invasion,
"We have taken staff out of Baghdad temporarily given that it is a very
complicated moment," Palacio said in Berlin. Spaniards working for the
U.S.-led Coalition Provisional Authority will stay, the Spanish Defense
Ministry said without giving their number.
Spain became the third coalition member to withdraw diplomats from Iraq due
to stepped up insurgent attacks. Last month, Bulgaria and the Netherlands
moved their diplomats to Jordan, also citing worsening security.
Those fears increased after a dramatic escalation in attacks, starting with
the Oct. 26 missile barrage against the Al-Rasheed Hotel, where many
coalition and U.S. military officials lived. One U.S. colonel was killed and
18 people were injured.
On Sunday, guerrillas near Fallujah shot down a U.S. Army Chinook
helicopter, killing 16 soldiers and injuring about 20 others in the
bloodiest single strike against American forces since the war began March
20.
Violence continued Tuesday when a roadside bomb killed a 1st Armored
Division soldier and injured two others in Baghdad.
In the northern city of Mosul, insurgents using small arms fire and
rocket-propelled grenades Tuesday attacked a hotel housing American troops
but caused no casualties, the military said.
Three of the grenades hit the building and two others landed in the compound
as U.S. troops returned fire. A police station in Mosul was also struck
overnight by a rocket-propelled grenade, the military said Tuesday. There
were no casualties.
Also in Mosul, Iraq's third largest city which had been relatively quiet,
gunmen Tuesday killed a judge near his home. Ismail Youssef, a Christian,
was the second Iraqi judge assassinated in as many days.
On Monday, Judge Muhan Jabr al-Shuweily, head of an Iraqi court
investigating members of Saddam Hussein's Baath Party, was abducted and
murdered in the southern city Najaf. A colleague who was kidnapped with him
but spared said the killers appeared to be Saddam supporters.
Elsewhere, insurgents Tuesday ambushed a U.S. patrol with RPGs in the town
of Khaldiyah, located west of Baghdad in the volatile "Sunni Triangle,"
witnesses said. There were no reports of casualties and no confirmation from
the U.S. command.
The Arabic language satellite television station Al-Jazeera reported an
ambush Tuesday near Samara north of the capital and broadcast pictures of
cheering Iraqis displaying American ammunition as a truck burned in the
background.
U.S. troops, meanwhile, raided the village of Karasia near Tikrit late
Monday, arresting two suspects and seizing Kalashnikov rifles, 14 mortar
rounds, a mortar tube, and rocket-propelled grenades and launchers, the
military said.
In Mosul, gunmen killed a provincial judge Tuesday near his home. Ismail
Youssef, a Christian, was a deputy to the head of the appeal courts in
Nineveh province. On Monday, the head of an Iraqi court who was
investigating members of Saddam Hussein's Baath Party, Muhan Jabr
al-Shuweily, was abducted and murdered in the southern city Najaf.
A colleague who was spared said he believed the killers were supporters of
Saddam.
The Spanish withdrawal followed the death of a Spanish navy captain in the
truck bombing of the United Nations headquarters in Baghdad on Aug. 19, and
the Oct. 9 killing of a Spanish sergeant working for that nation's military
intelligence. Security at the Spanish embassy had been stepped up in recent
weeks.
After months of attacks and ambushes on U.S. soldiers in Iraq, insurgents
have begun targeting diplomatic and humanitarian facilities mainly with
vehicle bombs and suicide attackers.
The Oct. 14 explosion outside the Turkish Embassy killed a bystander. A day
before the Dutch announced their diplomats were leaving, four suicide
bombings hit the International Red Cross headquarters and four Iraqi police
stations in Baghdad, killing 40 people, mostly Iraqis.
The Bush administration has urged other countries to send troops to Iraq to
relieve the burden on American soldiers. Turkey agreed last month to send
soldiers here but the move was stalled by widespread opposition, including
from pro-U.S. Kurds in the north.
Turkey has fought a 15-year battle with independence-minded Kurdish
militants and continues to station thousands of troops just inside Iraq's
northern border.
Turkey's ambassador to the United States said Tuesday in Washington that his
country will not send troops into Iraq without an invitation from the
U.S.-appointed Iraqi Governing Council.
Ambassador Osman Faruk Logolu said the United States must put more pressure
on the council to approve the Turkish troops a move he said the United
States appears unwilling to make.
"Until we have a clear initiative from the Iraqi people, we will not insist
on going into Iraq," Logolu said at a breakfast meeting with reporters.
"Ours is an offer to help ... We want to make sure that if we go to Iraq we
will be welcomed."
http://abcnews.go.com/wire/World/ap20031104_850.html
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"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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| Title: Re: "My fellow Americans, major combat operations in Iraq have ended." 11.04.03 |
04 Nov 2003 01:10:27 PM |
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"Tom Jefferson" <tomj@democracy.org> wrote in message
news:3fa7df09$0$91657$a32e20b9@news.nntpservers.com...
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.
He was correct. If you disagree, please describe for us the current major
combat operation the United States is now conducting in Iraq. Are we
bombing some city that YOU know about but the rest of us don't?
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| User: "Rico" |
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| Title: Re: "My fellow Americans, major combat operations in Iraq have ended." 11.04.03 |
05 Nov 2003 11:51:57 AM |
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In article <DQSpb.105312$Fm2.90184@attbi_s04>, "BW" <bw4@verizon.net> wrote:
"Tom Jefferson" <tomj@democracy.org> wrote in message
news:3fa7df09$0$91657$a32e20b9@news.nntpservers.com...
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.
He was correct. If you disagree, please describe for us the current major
combat operation the United States is now conducting in Iraq. Are we
bombing some city that YOU know about but the rest of us don't?
You are right of course, now the bush stratagy is for the kids to be
targets, no more operations.
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| User: "David Schwartz" |
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| Title: Re: "My fellow Americans, major combat operations in Iraq have ended." 11.04.03 |
19 Nov 2003 02:16:59 AM |
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"Rico" <rico_001@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:vqie5v1b1jkv9b@corp.supernews.com...
In article <DQSpb.105312$Fm2.90184@attbi_s04>, "BW" <bw4@verizon.net>
wrote:
"Tom Jefferson" <tomj@democracy.org> wrote in message
news:3fa7df09$0$91657$a32e20b9@news.nntpservers.com...
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.
He was correct. If you disagree, please describe for us the current
major
combat operation the United States is now conducting in Iraq. Are we
bombing some city that YOU know about but the rest of us don't?
You are right of course, now the bush stratagy is for the kids to be
targets, no more operations.
Agreed, it's difficult for me to understand how you can have 100,000+
soldiers in a country and not call it a major combat operation. Those
soldiers are not peace keepers, they are fighting battles in the cities of
Iraq. They are under attack. More of them have died since George W. Bush,
our incompetent commander-in-chief, said that combat was over.
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