MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) - At least one U.S. warship bombarded a remote, mountainous village in Somalia where Islamic militants had set up a base, officials in the northern region of Puntland said Saturday.

You are delusional. Closer together in time? Really? How the fuck would you know? There’s no pattern here, Frank. Just a series of violent actions and responses that have so far added up to total chaos.

Wrong, pipeline. I meant that “Does it mean anything? No” was bullshit.

Every one of those incidents o
is one more than before. They are getting closer together in time, as well.

So again, it isn’t the facts I’m disputing, it’s your assessment of them which is, on its face. ridiculous, ideologically-driven boosterism of the worst sort.

I think you should all get a grip. Have a meeting. Decide who’s going first, etc.

I think it was Mr. Pipeline — who has related 4 or 5 incidents that indicate that there is some popular resistance to A Q. He calls it “bullshit”. Well, that’s that.

I’ll get to the others later. Meanwhile, take a number.

Prove it. Prove Liberals are saying that.

Either that or admit you are just projecting.

Meanwhile, there are some good news coming from Anbar.
Al-Qaeda is apparently being chased down and confronted by Iraqis in Anbar and Samarra according to a report from al-Sabah.
Mohammed al-Ubaidi is a citizen of Anbar who took part in a battle against al-Qaeda fighters said that people were enraged by the attacks that kill civilians in Anbar and other provinces and therefore have decided to form squads from the residents to rid Anbar from the foreign terrorists.
The reports mentions that several tribes’ sheikhs had a meeting in the home of a sheikh of the Dulaim tribe where they pledged to fight al-Qaeda and throw them out of the province. There are also news that some 120 al-Qaeda members have already fled outside Iraq after a series of battles between their cells and the residents of Ramadi and other towns and suburbs of Anbar.
According to the same report, similar measures are being taken by the residents in Samarra and have succeeded in forcing foreign terrorists out of their city.

Hmm. What happened in Anbar just 8 months
later?

In a report that some have said is the most negative yet filed by a senior military officer in Iraq, the chief of intelligence for the US Marine Corps in Iraq concluded that the possibilities of the US and Iraqi governments securing the troubled western Iraqi province of Anbar are remote.

And what about Anbar
on May 30?

Impovements in Anbar Spotted

Petraeus is pleasantly surprised by how the situation in Anbar Province has turned around. Only six months ago, some U.S. commanders believed the entire province was lost to al Qaeda.

Now, local sheiks have turned on the foreign-controlled al Qaeda fighters, tired of their extreme political and religious views.

“You now have local security forces that are truly fighting for their local areas and, of course, they can figure out who al Qaeda is a heck of a lot better then we can,” Petraeus said.

Why it’s the same old story. Imagine that. Oh but wait, here’s an even more recent story, from
today:

Suicide bomber targets Al Anbar recruits

5:01 PM PDT, May 31, 2007

BAGHDAD, Iraq — Efforts to improve security in Al Anbar province, long the primary stronghold of the Sunni Arab insurgency, suffered a setback Thursday when suicide bombers detonated explosives at a police recruitment center in Fallujah and a police station in Ramadi. At least 20 people were killed and 31 injured, according to police and witnesses.

So again, it’s all bullshit. Utter bullshit from a right wing that refuses to accept reality. Wake the fuck up frank. You don’t know shit …

http://www.japantoday.com/jp/news/331651

Iraq merchants, residents kill insurgents
Wednesday, March 23, 2005 at 07:32 EST

BAGHDAD — Baghdad shopkeepers and residents traded gunfire with masked insurgents Tuesday, killing three of them along a main thoroughfare.

Meanwhile, a U.S. patrol was hit by a homemade bomb in a northwestern neighborhood of Mosul, damaging a Humvee as it crossed a bridge, hospital officials said, citing witnesses.

Four civilians in a car near the blast were killed, the officials said.

Gunbattles erupted out in the streets of the southern Baghdad neighborhood of Doura, where militants wearing black hoods and riding in three cars opened fire on people shopping on a main street. Shopkeepers and residents returned fire, killing three assailants. A man, woman and child were injured and taken to a hospital.

That story from two years ago reads almost exactly like the story you linked to: just a collection of random, violent incidents.

You think you know what’s going on, don’t you? You don’t. You haven’t a clue.

This could either be just plain old random violence — you know, the kind that “those Ay - rab guys do all the time” (you can say that if you’re a liberal, but not if you’re a conservative — then it’s racist); OR, it’s a sign that the locals are finally fed up with A - Q.

On another thread, I said, “The Iraqis have to ask themselves, ‘What we will do, when the Americans leave’?”.

I guess they’re thinking about it.

Nimrod Gently:: Did you just ask me to give you the benefit of the doubt?

Go lie down with a cold towel on your head ’til that goes away.

Faced it ages ago, although of course if someone would explain what “victory” would entail I might find that more appealing. No-one ever has though. Ever. In all this time.

And don’t call me Gus.

But frank naturally nothing but total withdrawal would satisfy me. I’m opposed to the war and think that our staying there is making the world a more dangerous place. But that’s such a total non-sequitor response on your part isn’t it?

Could you actually address the question of why you think the story you linked to presages anything other than the continuation of violence and chaos in iraq?

Alright, so sometimes it’s a deliberate attempt to annoy you, but quite often it’s a genuine accident (I did it a couple of times) so could you at least give the benefit of the doubt?