‘Operation Swarmer’ Expected to Last Days
U.S. forces and Iraqi troops launched what the military described as the largest air assault since the 2003 U.S.-led invasion Thursday, targeting insurgent strongholds north of the capital.
The U.S. military said the raid, dubbed Operation Swarmer, was aimed at clearing “a suspected insurgent operating area” northeast of Samarra and was expected to last several days. The Pentagon said 41 people were arrested.
You need to pay more attention to the news, Frank.
“”In those regions where pockets of dead-enders are trying to reconstitute, Gen. (Tommy) Franks and his team are rooting them out,” Rumsfeld said, referring to the U.S. commander in Iraq. “In short, the coalition is making good progress.”" – June, 2003
I’m sure to be sorry I asked, but “dead enders”?
2003? You’re kidding, right? You need to get out more, Oliver.
Your house must look like the Collyer brothers’
Awesome link, Frank.
Off topic, tho.
Oh, how I hoped that would be about Championship Manager.
Not if he’s keeping newspapers from 2003 =:-}
I’ve got this thing called a memory, and inbetween images of Jessica Alba, Redskins Superbowl games, and the code for infinite lives in Contra, I am able to remember a quote from the secretary of defense that has been repeated thousands of times in the last two years.
Call me Karnak.
Conventional Pundit Wisdom, ca. 2003:
The only people who think this wasn t a victory are Upper Westside liberals, and a few people here in Washington.
(Charles Krauthammer, Inside Washington, WUSA-TV, 4/19/03)
We re all neo-cons now.
(MSNBC s Chris Matthews, 4/9/03)
The war was the hard part. The hard part was putting together a coalition, getting 300,000 troops over there and all their equipment and winning. And it gets easier. I mean, setting up a democracy is hard, but it is not as hard as winning a war.
(Fox News Channel s Fred Barnes, 4/10/03)
What s he going to talk about a year from now, the fact that the war went too well and it s over? I mean, don t these things sort of lose their Isn t there a fresh date on some of these debate points?
(MSNBC s Chris Matthews, speaking about Howard Dean 4/9/03)
I doubt that the journalists at the New York Times and NPR or at ABC or at CNN are going to ever admit just how wrong their negative pronouncements were over the past four weeks.
(MSNBC s Joe Scarborough, 4/9/03)
I m waiting to hear the words I was wrong from some of the world s most elite journalists, politicians and Hollywood types& . I just wonder, who s going to be the first elitist to show the character to say: Hey, America, guess what? I was wrong ? Maybe the White House will get an apology, first, from the New York Times Maureen Dowd. Now, Ms. Dowd mocked the morality of this war& .
Do you all remember Scott Ritter, you know, the former chief U.N. weapons inspector who played chief stooge for Saddam Hussein? Well, Mr. Ritter actually told a French radio network that quote, The United States is going to leave Baghdad with its tail between its legs, defeated. Sorry, Scott. I think you ve been chasing the wrong tail, again.
Maybe disgraced commentators and politicians alike, like Daschle, Jimmy Carter, Dennis Kucinich, and all those others, will step forward tonight and show the content of their character by simply admitting what we know already: that their wartime predictions were arrogant, they were misguided and they were dead wrong. Maybe, just maybe, these self-anointed critics will learn from their mistakes. But I doubt it. After all, we don t call them elitists for nothing.
(MSNBC s Joe Scarborough, 4/10/03)
Over the next couple of weeks when we find the chemical weapons this guy was amassing, the fact that this war was attacked by the left and so the right was so vindicated, I think, really means that the left is going to have to hang its head for three or four more years.
(Fox News Channel s Dick Morris, 4/9/03)
I will bet you the best dinner in the gaslight district of San Diego that military action will not last more than a week. Are you willing to take that wager?
(Fox News Channel s Bill O Reilly, 1/29/03)
Besides, you don’t have to keep the newspapers around. There’s this thing called…oh, never mind.
Frank, you really haven’t heard the phrase “dead enders” thrown around?
Rumsfeld was using it for a while too.
There’s this thing called a sense of humor. Look it up in your… oh, never mind.
…everybody knows the last throes take up 95% of the time. I heard on the news today that “we can’t tell the insurgents unless they’re holding a weapon. Otherwise, they look like the local populace.”
Shit…, I remember hearing that one back in 1969.
So, any predictions for expected casualties on either side and how long “Operation Save W’s Poll Numbers” here is supposed to last?
Has Frank heard the phrase “dead ender”? Frank IS a dead ender.
OOOH! Clever, Paul… The least you could do is pretend you’re making a comment, O rabid one!
…the issue is so muddied, and the ground so bloodied
I wish everyone would learn:
“…our nature is a tribal one, and so if one from us is killed,
we kill three or four in return.”
Has Frank heard the phrase dead ender ? Frank IS a dead ender.
AKA; Huntz Hall
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Side_Kids
Mucker;
Parallel to Viet Nam. Exit strategy for saving face (Nixon/Kissinger)
Will the last liberal with a cogent comment turn out the lights on the way out…
“AKA; Huntz Hall”
Awesome. I love the Dead End Kids.
And Frank, when you post your first cogent comment we’ll have to throw a freakin party. Or have already forgotten your ridiculous pack peddling on this statement: “Supreme Court justices who have decided that they should be using other countries laws as precedents in American courts.” Idiot.
Whats all the hoopla? A large operation north of Baghdad. No US casualties.
Was there something in the progressive water supply this morning?
Dugger (”people who jump to conclusions seldom alight on them” — Guadalla)
Dugger, I won’t bore you with the details of civilian death and dismemberment in Samarra. You likely don’t care about such matters.
But there’s just this lttle strategic problem that we’re taking a side in a Civil war by disarming one side and training the other. I suppose that’s not a problem for you, because you think that the Shiite Iraqi soldiers are our Brothers in Arms. My question to you – how long will that last after we invade Iran?
Will the last liberal with a cogent comment turn out the lights on the way out&
Funny. Thing there is, I see few or no cogent comments headed with the name “Frank D” and a picture of a hand above them. Just ad hominem attacks and the like. Isn’t it uncomfortable having that beam in your eye?
Nimrod: reread the thread. I started the thread with a question, then a joke. It went downhill from there. Remove the blinders from your eyes.
Take careful note of the question:
I m sure to be sorry I asked, but dead enders ?
And I am.
does anybody else see the reasons Operation Swarmer? Yes, to boost the poll numbers, but also to rattle our sabers at Iran, while the President talks tough about “Some of the most powerful IEDs we are seeing in Iraq today includes components that came from Iran.” with no basis in actual fact; Bolton’s talking tough about iran, Condoleez Liesalot is talking tough about Iran, and they are stirring up the waters of fear again with the whole “THEY’VE GOT A BOMB!” routine.
Why does the white House insist on antagonizing other countries? Have you seen the Bush Doctrine?
I am begining to think they are trying to get us killed.
Poor Z_adura,
“I won t bore you with the details of civilian death and dismemberment in Samarra. You likely don t care about such matters.”
So morally superior, yet the world is not run by those as bright or moral as he/she. Does that big bag of highly moral rocks ever get heavy? What a burden it must be! When will they learn!? When will they learn!
Dugger, Would like to listen to those casualty reports, but I have to go out and do insentive, warmongering, capitalist stuff
Well, then, I guess you’re right. Both your comments criticizinge me for criticizing others who criticized me were correct. And you’re right, your statement that I was wrong is evidence that there is a beam in my eye.
I did reread the thread. You’re something like 3-1 down on cogent comments. Even Paul can make a point and attack you at the same time. You still have that beam in your eye.
“So morally superior, yet the world is not run by those as bright or moral as he/she.”
Yes, the world should be run by people who listen to Dugger’s “gut.” Dugger’s gut knows all and tells all. Ask it anything and without a shred of evidence, a single fact or a link to anything backing it up, Dugger’s gut will tell you what’s happening in the world and how the world should be. Because in the immortal words of Stephen Colbert, “that’s where the truth comes from, ladies and gentlemen…the gut.”
Time for that colonoscopy dugger.
Dugger, I am a capitalist. In fact, I venture to say that I am probably a much more successful capitalist than you are, but I am not a warmonger as you aparently are, and that’s why I would rather you stick to the essence of my argument.
Simply said, we are arming one side of a civil conflict and disarming the other. The one we are arming is closely tied to Iran, the “gravest threat to civilization.” Does this concern you – even as a warmonger?
I venture to say that I am probably a much more successful capitalist than you are,
Does that make you a Venture Capitalist?
Sorry, couldn’t resist.
OT, and it’s from NewsMax, but, please God, let it be true:
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2006/3/17/64243.shtml?s=et
Rep. Curt Weldon … now says that Osama bin Laden has died.
“Does this concern you – even as a warmonger? ”
Bad assumptions built into questions always concern me – but not enough to mess up my warmongering weekend.
BTW, as a capitalist, do you wear one of those stove pipe hats and grind labor beneath your oppressive heal (I’ve always wanted to do that).
Dugger, Vote Warmonger Party!! We’ll start wars all over, all the progressives will run off to become become human shields and then we win elections at home! I love it when a plan comes together.
A Venture Capitalist is someone who invests in surfin’ guitar music
No, I am not a venture capitalist, and God willing, will never become one. By the way Frank, love the Ventures reference. If it weren’t March Madness, I’d probably be tempted to get in the Woodie and go to the beach.