Good news in Iraq

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[revwardoc]

David,

Great news, but 5 more of our troops were killed this morning. Too bad the new Iraqi army can't do more to stop damned terrorists and religious fanatics. I guess they figure if only Americans are being killed, who cares. Though I have to admit that the Iraqi police are taking their share of the crap, too.

[Hardball]

Our troops who have offered and are offering their full measure of devotion to America, will NOT be forgotten.

Regardless of what the Left and other nay-sayers spout, Operation Iraqi Freedom IS a "Just War"

In Federalist Paper No. 3, John Jay states:

"The just causes of war, for the most part, arise either from violation of treaties or from direct violence."

But maybe 12 years of disception and firing at our aircraft, and 17 UN Resolutions being "violated" do not count.

www.veteransjournal.net will ALWAYS remember the true price of freedom.

On a parallel issue, readers may want to check out the new thread in this forum under "Political Debate" entitled, "Kerry in San Diego,...Now he LIKES oil"

Oil is a just cause for war. It is our Nation's lifeblood.

Hardball

[Boats]

Hey Dave I find it hard to believe there is any good news when each day 1 or more are dying from booby traps and bushwackings.

These radicals are buried in so deep that I don't think you will ever be able to dig them out totally.

[Seascamp]

The alleged chaos and bedlam going on in Iraq is only true in the minds of the political contenders and those who want to be first in line to take ownership of Iraq?s resources, that's all. It?s a scary place with the usual things that go on in scary places, not unlike any number of our own inner city areas, but basically moving along and playing catch up ball. A stat that always amazes me is the comparison of current security / military forces in Iraq today verses what it took Saddam to keep the lid on the place. I?d guess that a ratio of about 1 to 5 is about right and that is a conservative estimate. Probably closer to 1 to 7-10 is more realistic but Saddam had a tremendous number of guards guarding the guards who in turn were guarding those guards, etc., so on and so forth. Unfortunately, the current political contenders cannot afford any successes in Iraq at all, so their press advocates will not report on the infrastructure rebuilding that has gone on and will continue to go on. By neglect and indifference the Saddam regime let the entire industrial infrastructure just go to junk and when all that is back on line, then the real bad news will hit. Iraq will not be a beggar/ charity case any longer and will be able to sustain forward momentum with minimal assistance and the presence of a fair bit of back-up security clout.

All in all, it isn?t pretty but it isn?t a rolling fire ball either as our politically biased media would have us believe. Sure Boats, expect continual gang land style hits and bushwhackings, comes with the territory in that crazy place and I'm not sure that there ever has or ever will be anything different. But the trick now is to get the Iraqi security forces doing the hitting back and bushwhacking back, just keep one line behing the perenial flail and more or less out of the way, almost.

Scamp

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We gotta win this one boys... we gotta win it, one way or another.