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Air Force Quietly Building Iraq Presence
BALAD AIR BASE, Iraq -- Away from the headlines and debate over the "surge" in U.S. ground troops, the Air Force has quietly built up its hardware inside Iraq, sharply stepped up bombing and laid a foundation for a sustained air campaign in support of American and Iraqi forces.
Squadrons of attack planes have been added to the in-country fleet. The air reconnaissance arm has almost doubled since last year. The powerful B1-B bomber has been recalled to action over Iraq.
The escalation worries some about an increase in "collateral damage," casualties among Iraqi civilians. Air Force generals worry about wear and tear on aging aircraft. But ground commanders clearly like what they see.
"Night before last we had 14 strikes from B-1 bombers. Last night we had 18 strikes by B-1 bombers," Maj. Gen. Rick Lynch said approvingly of air support his 3rd Infantry Division received in a recent offensive south of Baghdad.
Statistics tell the story: Air Force and Navy aircraft dropped 437 bombs and missiles in Iraq in the first six months of 2007, a fivefold increase over the 86 used in the first half of 2006, and three times more than in the second half of 2006, according to Air Force data. In June, bombs dropped at a rate of more than five a day.
Inside spacious, air-conditioned "Kingpin," a new air traffic control center at this huge Air Force hub 50 miles north of Baghdad, the expanded commitment can be seen on the central display screen: Small points of light represent more than 100 aircraft crisscrossing Iraqi air space at any one time.
The increased air activity has paralleled the reinforcement of U.S. ground troops, beginning in February, to try to suppress the insurgency and sectarian violence in the Baghdad region. Simply keeping those 30,000 additional troops supplied has added to demands on the Air Force.
"We're the busiest aerial port in DOD (Department of Defense)," said Col. Dave Reynolds, a mission support commander here. Working 12-hour shifts, his cargo handlers are expected to move 140,000 tons of cargo this year, one-third more than in 2006, he said.
The greatest impact of the "air surge" has come in close air support for Army and Marine operations.
Early this year, with little fanfare, the Air Force sent a squadron of A-10 "Warthog" attack planes - a dozen or more aircraft - to be based at Al-Asad Air Base in western Iraq. At the same time it added a squadron of F-16C Fighting Falcons here at Balad. Although some had flown missions over Iraq from elsewhere in the region, the additions doubled to 50 or more the number of workhorse fighter-bomber jets available at bases inside the country, closer to the action.
The reinforcement involved more than numbers. The new F-16Cs were the first of the advanced "Block 50" version to fly in Iraq, an aircraft whose technology includes a cockpit helmet that enables the pilot to aim his weapons at a target simply by turning his head and looking at it.
The Navy has contributed by stationing a second aircraft carrier in the Persian Gulf, and the reintroduction of B1-Bs has added a close-at-hand "platform" capable of carrying 24 tons of bombs.
Those big bombers were moved last year from distant Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean to an undisclosed base in the Persian Gulf. Since February, with the ground offensive, they have gone on Iraq bombing runs for the first time since the 2003 invasion.
As chronicled in the Air Force's daily summaries, more and more pilots are getting the "cleared hot" clearance for bombing runs, usually with 500-pound bombs. In recent Army operations north of Baghdad, for example, Air Force planes have struck "factories" for makeshift bombs, weapons caches uncovered by ground troops and, in one instance, "several houses insurgents were using as fire positions."
Iraq Body Count, a London-based, anti-war research group that monitors Iraqi war deaths, says the step-up in air attacks appears to have been accompanied by an increase in Iraqi civilian casualties from air strikes. Based on media reports, it counts a recent average of 50 such deaths per month.
The Air Force itself does not maintain such data.
The demand for air support is heavy. On one recent day, at a briefing attended by a reporter, it was noted that 48 requests for air support were filled, but 16 went unmet.
"There are times when the Army wishes we had more jets," said F-16C pilot Lt. Col. Steve Williams, commander of the 13th Expeditionary Fighter Squadron, a component of Balad's 379th Air Expeditionary Wing.
In addition, the Air Force is performing more "ISR" work in Iraq - intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance. "We have probably come close to doubling our ISR platforms the past 12 months," said Col. Gary Crowder, a deputy air operations chief for the Central Command.
Those proliferating reconnaissance platforms include Predator drones, high-flying U2s and AWACS, the technology-packed airborne warning and control aircraft, three of which returned to the Persian Gulf in April after three years' absence.
The F-16Cs and other attack planes also do surveillance work with their targeting cameras, keeping watch on convoy routes, for example. By Oct. 1, Crowder said, all squadrons will have "ROVER" capability, able to download real-time aerial video to the laptop computers of troops on the ground - showing them, in effect, what's around the next corner.
"They love it. It's like having a security camera wherever you want it," said Col. Joe Guastella, the Air Force's regional operations chief.
Air Force engineers, meanwhile, are improving this centrally located home base, which supports some 10,000 air operations per week.
The weaker of Balad's two 11,000-foot runways was reinforced - for five to seven years' more hard use. The engineers next will build concrete "overruns" at the runways' ends. Balad's strategic ramp, the concrete parking lot for its biggest planes, was expanded last fall. The air traffic control system is to be upgraded again with the latest technology.
"We'd like to get it to be a field like Langley, if you will," said mission support chief Reynolds, referring to the Air Force showcase base in Virginia.
The Air Force has flown over Iraq for many years, having enforced "no-fly zones" with the Navy in 1991-2003, banning Iraqi aircraft from northern and southern areas of this country. Today, too, it takes a long view: Many expect the Army to draw down its Iraq forces by 2009, but the Air Force is planning for a continued conflict in which it supports Iraqi troops.
"Until we can determine that the Iraqis have got their air force to sufficient capability, I think the coalition will be here to support that effort," Lt. Gen. Gary North, overall regional air commander, said in an interview. The new Iraqi air force thus far fields only a handful of transports and reconnaissance aircraft - no attack planes.
North also echoed a common theme in today's Air Force: Some of the U.S. planes are too old. Some of his KC-135 air-refueling tankers date from 1956. Heavy use in Iraq and Afghanistan is cracking the wings of some A-10s, the Air Force says.
"We are burning these airplanes out," North said. "Our A-10s and our F-16s are rapidly becoming legacy systems."
If the equipment is under strain, it doesn't appear the personnel are.
The Air Force's four-month Iraq tours and extensive use of volunteer pilots from the Reserve and National Guard contrast sharply with an Army whose 15-month tours are sapping energy and morale.
In the Air Force, Iraq duty can even be cut to two months. Lt. Col. Bob Mortensen's 457th Fighter Squadron - F-16Cs from Fort Worth, Texas - managed it by working a deal with another Reserve unit to share one four-month rotation.
How much longer can these flyers answer the call?
"As many times as we're asked," Mortensen said.
© 2007 The Associated Press
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Show AllIf everyone knows what these monsters have done, and what they are capable of,(our military has been sent away in rags, with no way back, the new troops can be anywhere in hours, willing and able to fire on troublemakers for cash, the camps are built, the courts are paid for, and all he needs is his emergency, if hurricanes don't show, the Iranian CRISIS will do, or the old 9/11 trick!) I just can't understand why everyone thinks there is going to be an election of some sort, in 2008?! Me, I'm sick of worrying about it, I think I'll go quietly away. Maybe even campaign for Rudy Tooty, and hope they leave me alone!
I never really understood the meaning of ruthlessness until i started studying the behavior of our current administration and the neo-cons who pull their strings. Machiavelli would be proud. They are so clever at manipulating the press and a large percentage of the American population. Bush and the chicken hawk, cold warriors that support him will be able to say they're withdrawing the troops while quietly building up the Air Force. What the US Army and Marines were doing in Iraq, will now become industrial strength slaughter with the use of America's air power. Death from a distance seems to be okay for way too many privileged folks. Come on America, it's time to throw these criminals out of power and bring them to trial. If this doesn't happen, American Justice will be just another funny oxymoron.
The wonderful airforce is nothing more that an cowardly bunch of killers, striking from the air, not seeing the death they wreak. This glorification of the military is nauseating, nazi crap.
Just think, with the new MQ-9s Reapers installed at Balad, Oceania can strike anywhere in Eurasia or Eastasia. We should be able to murder and maim civilians anywhere we want in comfort using a keyboard and a mouse. It's the new Dial A Death vidio game! I wonder what will happen when it's the Beltway against the whole planet - we won't need to worry about global warming.
when dems and co talk about reducing the presence of troops on the groundk, they are talking about increasing the presence of air support.
Our tax money goes to the military-industrial complex, making killer war profiteers richer.
I'm guessing the air force is gearing up to strike Iran, another so-called threat, just like Iraq was with its "weapons of mass destruction."
It's sickening. I plan to leave this country within five years.
The preperations for bombing Iran are taking shape. Of course, if and when that disaster occurs, don't be surprised to see China cut off our loans, perhaps call in the US bonds they hold and cut off our supplies. We will have a serious recession in that event, maybe even a depression.
This may sound really incredible, but a major portion of our military aircraft and vehicle parts are now being manufactured in China. The generals are concerned about the aging fleet of aircraft. They should be. Stock up on groceries, you will need them.
The EVIL CREATURES in this ADMINISTRATION & ALL THEIR HEINOUS COHORTS are PSYCHOPATHS of the worst order.
No sense of THE OTHER; no decency, honesty, human feelings ...
I feel chilled right now thinking about bodies blowing up and the screams of the wounded and the sobbing of those who have lost more of their families and friends and country men and women ... and their homes and homeland.
There will be a reckoning ... there always is.
God help us all.
You can help on July 17, 2007.
firethegrid.org
This is a country of unfeeling, "Yes Sir" MURDERERS!!!
If the individuals in the military thought for themselves and chose NOT to be a part of mass murder, their might be a glimmer of hope for this country. Sheep come in many forms--
and the ones in uniform are bleating as they spill the blood of the innocent.
As Cee miracles said: "God help us all". OUR sheep-ishness is no less than an accomplice to the oncoming slaughter for allowing a perverse, non-feeling, hypocritical "christian" administration to continue as we blog, whine, and whimper in our comfortable homes.
Lillulu, where you goin?___ Wherever, don't tell the people where you came from, and you may not have five years if we attack Iran. If we do that, exchange any money you have for gold and pack a bag. Alaska might be safe, take a hatchet, a fishing line and a string of Siberian Huskies.
Evelyn, I plan to go to Canada. However, they seem rather lukewarm towards Americans at the present. They used to be quite friendly whenever I went there on vacation previously, so I'm not really sure yet.
Thanks for the advice. Maybe the safest place would be on the frozen tundra somewhere. Or a remote mountain. It won't be easy, wherever, but who said life was easy, right?
Iraq is simply a staging area for the attack on Iran
The pundits have been predicting this for almost a year.
Troops out, casualties down, US citizens happy and back to American Idol.
Then bomb them back to the stone age while nobody is looking.
Should any neighboring country object to the slaughter, they must be terrorists, too, bomb them as well.
I guess the theory is that, if we kill everyone off, then we get dibs on the oil.
What happened to my country?
Lillulu, be careful where you pick to go. The only places we haven't bombed in the last few years are Australia and Antarctica.
But at least we aren't terrorists with suicide bombers. We use precision smart bombs that minimize collateral damage avoid friendly fire and reduce negative outcomes while hitting hard targets.
Note:
Precision smart bombs - expensive
friendly fire - shoot your own guys
negative outcome - bomb your own guys
hard targets - shacks with hapless civilians
Doing a nice job of "quietly" building up Guam over the past few yrs. as well.
Saddam Hussain stands very small before these bunch of BLOOD-THIRSTY MONSTERS!!! They have killed more than 650,000 people, made thousands homeless, orphans, destitute, and refugees, and destroyed the infrastructure. Aren't the Americans and the Europeans not satisfied with the blood of 650,000 innocent people they have spilled???
No wonder only Americans could drop Atomic bombs in the history. The citizens in these countries have become mute spectators!!!! Those who have lost their humanness and have become ravaging wolfs, spilling the blood of innocent people is nothing. This reminds me of the song which an American Marine serving in Iraq sang playing the guitar while his other friends merrily cheering and laughing: "I grabbed her little sister and put her in front of me. As the bullets began to fly, the blood sprayed from between her eyes, and then I laughed maniacally"? For such Monsters spilling innocents' blood is a sport.
O God when will this destruction end??????????
Shakker..I wonder if we can make a level playing field here...how you would feel if as the smart bombs are released the plane and its pilot blew up..I wonder how "brave" the pilot would be then..???
I am sick and tired of hearing about hero's ..IE people with the most technicly advanced weaponry fighting people with basicly no weaponry at all.. Surely this is the height of cowardice.
Actually, we have killed every single person in Iraq___ and every person who has been there or near there in the past five years.
Go to Google and ask for Depleted Uranum. We have spread thousands of TONS of that poison in Iraq. If one inhales just a few microscopic specks of DU,___ they will die. It may take thirty years for the final breath, it may only take five or six years, but every human there is dead, they just don't know it yet.
Read every article on DU, suspect those who deny it is dangerous, they have political or monetary reasons for their denials.___ Nite, ___ Kem Patrick
Heckofajob Air Farce. Gettin' to look like Vietnam more and more.
Our epitaph is in Orwell's 1984.
Winston and Julia are in their little love nest, and talking about how difficult it was to stay ahead of the thought police.
He took her in his arms and said, "We are the dead."
The mirror shattered and a voice said, "You are the dead."
That began the terrible journey to Room 101.
"What is in Room 101," asked Winston?
"The worst thing in the world," said his interrogator.
DU fits that description and I guess we are the dead, Kern. Most just don't realize it yet.
It's a shame the rest of us will suffer along with our guilty neighbors. Whatever bad things lie around the corner for America, it certainly deserves. A few good men. Very, very few good men in our military. Most are too weak to resist the brainwashing, and the rest don't have the courage to desert or refuse to follow orders. A very sad situation.
Imperialism at its worst: "Destroy anyone/anything that might one day become a threat"
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The depleted uranium that was sprinkled (that word sounds innocuous, doesn't it) in Iraq is EVIL. How do the criminals running the U.S. get away with it? Whatever happened to war crimes? Is is a free-for-all now? Anything goes?
When the U.S. bombs Iran I know I'll be physically sick. I'm a female -- a bit sensitive I guess, and the thought of more people dying for war profits gets to me. They're human beings just as we are.
"Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power." -— Abraham Lincoln
Looks like the politicians in the U.S. have failed that test miserably.
Kudos to all those who've posted their observation that Iraq is merely the staging area for our next product roll-out: Iran. All the signs are there: The Air Force buildup; the positioning of a naval admiral in charge of Centcomm; the quadrupling of Saudi jet fuel delivery to the US in 2007 versus 2006; the slow ratcheting up of the rhetoric about how Iran is supplying the insurgency (Shia Iran supplying a Sunni insurgency?); the positioning of three carrier groups in the region; the ouster of Peter Pace (who reportedly opposed any plan to attack Iran) as Joint Chiefs Chair; the "leaks" from Israeli defense officials of their plans to attack Iranian nuclear sites with the implicit approval of the US, in addition to our military backing were Iran to counterattack Israel. It's all there, folks. And the result will be disaster for us all.
The brave U.S. Air Force is doing a commendable job of making it easy to win the hearts and mines of Iraqi civilians. The idea being if you kill them on masse and indiscriminately, then you have that many less beating hearts to win. Don't forget to include the military commanders in your war criminal list. The criminals par excellence.
"Quietly"?, Arabs know that nearly every time the U.S. military gets involved in a region they never leave. The only thing that is quiet is American journalism.
Libertas and lillulu:
Sorry, but DU is not just a killer in Iraq. When a projectile of DU strikes a target, it burns. The result is a highly toxic smoke and dust, filled with billions of deadly uranium isotopes. The wind picks them up and some eventually gets into the upper atmosphere and travels around the globe. Since first being used about the year 1972, there has been so much of this poison scattered around the world that it is nearing the critical stage for ending all life on this little world we call Earth.
The clues that something is terribly wrong on Earth are clearly obvious. In just the past 18 months, world wide bird populations have experienced a DRAMATIC decline. The only thing that has changed in our enviroment in any significant manner in the past five years, is the amount of radio-active waste in our atmosphere. When it rains or snows the uranium isotopes return to Earth on both land and sea.
That dramatic decrease in the bird populations is a warning sign from Mother Nature, she is screaming at us, but we continue to use DU with reckless abandon. Bush and many others in power deny it is a problem. There is a lot of money, tons of money being made by mining and selling uranium. There is tons of money made selling munitions. There are tons of money made conducting wars.
Here is a potential disaster. DU will kill anything, even microbes, it is deadly for millions of years and there is no way to clean it up, or to destroy it once it is manufactured and used. In our oceans live the tiny life form phytoplankton. That plant life produces 70% of the oxygen in our atmosphere. Kill it off with DU, acid rain from burning fossil fuels and or, other pollutants that end up in the ocean and we will not be able to breathe anymore.
Plant and animal life on Earth are now suffering, even many insects and bugs are disappearing. The clues are obvious. Hope this little blurb, by a person who is not a doctor or a scientist doesn't disturb anyone. Why don't we stop it. Damned if I know, Why isn't this a subject of the most urgent concern for all of mankind?___ Why?___ I do not have an answer. Nite__Kem Patrick
Extending Libertas fugit's Orwell reference a little further I am reminded of teh slogan of the strategic Air Command which is "Peace is our Profession".
Regardless of who wins the presidency or what the make up of congress is in 08, the first job of americans should be to hound everyone in Washington to withdraw the troops, stop the war(s), and rescind the totalitarian edicts enacted into law by Bushco.
Arranging for the retirement or sudden demise of most of the Supereme Court and their clerks might also be helpful.
Americans were too busy to watch out for how they were governed and gave all their power to a few; so now they have the power and now they say F..U!
They defend each other because they have no national ideals or borders to defend.
Do not be angry if the killers are better than you, be glad it is others they are killing, and not you.
They enjoy the hunt for it is mostly easy unarmed game, war on the cheap.
You tell everyone a lie, support the men but not the war, then you buy them bullets to kill even more
Four million Iraquis driven from their homes, left behind are their familys bones.
Hug a soldier today, so that tomorrow it is not your child he will kill while at play.
Iraq is not a war it is a killing field and we sit and listen to those we elected tell us differently and smile at the killers when they come home.
What kind of life do you think they lead when not on missions tearing up peoples homes and killing over 350 Iraquis a day?
Guess what they want when they come home?
They want your child and grandchild to go take their place and do the same.
It is not defending the country it is defending their ability to continue killing without remorse, warriors.
They are the true patriots of course, just ask them.
You will support them!
OR ELSE!
Thanks for the powerful commentary from CD readers. It's good to be part of a community of outrage.
This business of "taxes" is pivotal. I think we may be ready to break through the pervasive mental conditioning that we are required by some legitimate authority to fund the slaughter of our fellow humans and the destruction of the biosphere. Once we see we have been enslaved by fear and conditioning, our authentic journey has begun.
I have not paid the pathetically dysfunctional cabal of creeps who control the greatest military empire the world has ever known for many years; I recommend it as a tonic for the soul.
Here is the last part of the Limited Intensity Conflict coming to fruition, massive escalation and complete anihalation of enemy forces.
So far it has only been in three cities we have had massacres in with almost complet destruction of evry building but from now on it will not be building by building it will be block after block flattened.
We have driven the Shias into enclaves of almost total Shia density of popualtion, along with the Sunnis who we are presently arming to the max with help from Saudi Arabia.
NOw it is time once and for all to end the last form of resistance to US takeover destruction of Sadr and his shia backing.
Soistanni has been a pwan sicne before invasion and if you see him leave for Europe to have an Operation then.....
US knows that without destroying Shias in Iraq an attack upon Iran by Israel, which Europe and US have already given Israel the go ahead according to their military leaders quotes in their newspapers, the US would be hard presed helping both Israel destroy Iran and defeating a couple million Shias at same time.
The blood is going to realy flow and Bush's surge is going to work no matter how many Shia civialns and militia die in the process.
For the marines who lovved the massacre of Iraquis in the early part of this invasion they will have mostly the strays to kill in next phase who are running from the bombs.
Happy hunting.
The Air Force Academy is notorious for pushing christian fundamentalism.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4091956.stm
I like to characterize fundamentalists as "one-wayers". They think their way is the only way, and that they must convert or eliminate all "non-believers". Spooky stuff to say the least, and completely lacking any sort of spiritual or rational wisdom.
It is almost as if these "wackos" want to take the entire country down in a "blaze of glorious rapture all in the name of Jesus". Jeesh - talk about sick, uncaring, self-centered, power-crazed, fear-motivated, war-loving, disconnected, Jesus-ignorant hypocrites.
You know, I just had a vision of these folks agonizing in agenbite of inwit - http://www.randomhouse.com/wotd/index.pperl?date=20000118. I don't like to have visions of agony, but you "reap what you sow". The fundamentalists have got it coming, and it ain't what they think its going to be.
Even so, I agree with many others, if the US attacks Iran, it is the beginning of the end. As it is, it appears to me, that the US of A is no more. To quote from one of my websites:
"WE NEED TO GET THE F*** OUT OF IRAQ
if we have any hope of continuing as a country.
As it is, this country is changed.
Fundamentalists will be re-arranged.
Either, the "doo-doo" will soon be hitting the fan indiscrimanently OR we will choose to be better."
Peace,
Ken Hausle
* I support HRes333 - Impeach the VP
** time is a ticking and I mean ticking
*** I'm excited about the new US that is coming - its got to be better than what we have now
I have red all of these comments,and I must say that all are right on the money,so sad to see how all the jackals of anything for the mighty dollar have managed to take over the white house, fool many millions of so called evangelical born again christians,take control of the information channels,set new laws borderline anticonstitutional to control future uprisings from the people, all through sacaring tactics by designing any killing plot necessary to achieve their goals . Lets face it,our TV,radio,and news papers are pretty much in the hands of wealthy neocons, so we have our work cut out to clean this mess created by the Bush administration ,his neocons,all the naive rightwing evangelical christian taliban.
So lets clean the Congress, Chicken democrats,greedy republicans OUT.
and mantain the separation of Church and State.
There may be something a little more subtle afoot than an attack on Iran.
The United States may allow (or even encourage) an Islamist coup in Pakistan, overthrowing Musharraf. That will give us the so-called "Islamist bomb", which will be the excuse for our government to do anything and everything.
This solution is cleaner and easier than attacking Iran.
For those who've not read the latest report regarding more diabolic plans from Cheney and bu$h, try this link:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,,2127115,00.html
-it is headed, "Cheney pushes Bush to act on Iran".
I am not so well acquainted with American constitutional affairs.
I know that if someone assassinates Bush, Cheney then becomes chief Murderous Liar and Crook.
But if there were to be a double assassination [Ass-Ass-ination?] who then would be the incumbent?
And with the mounting tide of wrath towards these two detestable villains in the inner circles of various government departments, (such as the Pentagon, CIA and others), how soon will this take place I wonder? ... ...
Un-common-dreams:
In that scenario Nancy Pelosi would be swornin as president. Some have suggested she has not worked towards impeachment because her ascencion would look like a "power grab"! Pathetic-no? Dems must not be seen as playing hard-ball politics.
Just two days ago I spoke with a retired Federal Prosecutor who tells me he is completely disgusted with this administration and he thinks Dick Cheney is behind much of the misconduuct and fraud from the White House and that they are using the religion right as a backbone to justify their conduct. I also received an email from a newspaper columnist who tells me that prior to Donald Rumsfeld leaving, Donald requested a meeting with him. He said Donald trotted in to see him with an entourage of low ranking generals to try to intimidate him out of writing any negative stories about the military or the war effort! These people are so out of control and desperate to change public perception and attitudes they obviously will resort to anything.
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FYI-bloggers
Watch our upcoming meteorite auction on eBay. As this is going to upset NASA and the military industrial machine and NASA's many fake "academic programs". (NASA pulled political and academic strings up and down, left and right, and has been behind an [anti-competitive] effort to shut down both our website and our independent planetary science research) They did not succeed!
Cordially,
S. Ray DeRusse
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S. Ray DeRusse--
You are the most delightfully out of control wacko I have read on any blog in a long time. Have you received any schedule of stops by the UFO carrying JFK, Elvis, and John Lennon yet? Please don't wait another second before giving us the straight scoop because enquiring minds want to know!
Seriously (as seriously as I can get after reading your above howlingly wacky missive!) thanks for a welcome break of silliness in an otherwise very scary and serious world.
Un-Common-Dreams,
YIKES lad! That sort of thinking is best left with the experts!(cheney/bush)
Couldn't we just pray, that the guy who does the cheney battery swap, will do the right thing? Maybe then, our frightened reps in DC would re-discover their man/womanhood
cee miracles. there will be reckoning....there always is. you are wrong. they always walk,
This has been the plan all along. Once we have turned Iraq into a military stronghold for us, we use it to attack it's neighbors. What a brilliant stratagy! No wonder Iraqis are greeting us with loaded arms when we bring democrocy to their country.
What sleight of hand! Surges are just too obvious, while trickle-up escalation goes relatively unnoticed. "What fools these mortals be...."
Dear Klever,
Thankyou for that elucidation.
I am heartened to learn that should two of the world's most diabolical / hated beings meet their fate a tad early, then Nancy Pelosi would become America's leader.
IMHO, that would be a much improved situation.
I wonder what we are waiting for? -maybe only for one of their armed secret service henchmen to have a sudden 'Road to Damascus' type of conversion?
[- And I hope I'm not letting your cat out of the bag a little too early here, PSY-OPs Department?]
Though on deep principle I don't condone violence, on this occasion, were *Satan's little helpers* (B. & C.] soon to be abruptly dispatched by one of their own kind, methinks this would be wholly preferable to the continued mass murder of thousands of Iraqi innocents; - that aching chasm of catastrophe which those two rabid lunatics needlessly dragged America, and many other countries into.
-please remind me someone, which cowardly presidential idiot was it, who once prated, "Bring it on" ??
_________________
But for now, the muse is upon me, I must begin work on my new anthem, I will call it: "The King is dead, viva Queen Nancy!"
;)
Global WARRING is what this whole plan is. Iraq today, only Chicney Hawk knows the rest of the plan.
and...
Good posts - (Nationalpud and Ken Hausle).
@ Nationalpud, you'll concur with the following methinks, it's a quote from one of the UK's best known actor-raconteurs, (the late Peter Ustinov):
"I have never been stopped in the street by people collecting funds for nuclear weapons, because this has been taken care of by governments, -but I have seen many collections for children..."
-It appears our leaders value *DEATH* much higher than life?
If that be so, let God not deprive them of it for even one minute longer.
jst thnk, if we had all that power protecting our southern borders, i dont think we'd have those little mexicans streaming across. can't you just see it, a group of say ten trying to sneak nto this country, vent on destabilizin our american workers, destroyin our workrs hard earned standard of living, when all of a sudden,
whooom! the whole bunch of em. taken out by a high tek warthog, wow! so yes, let us bring our air boys home and really protct our borders and especilly the american workrs standrd
of living. after all we all know its them neo-conz conspiritors just tryn to destroy our american worker just so they can put more and more money in their filthy pocket.
bom the brders seal itoff and dam thos mexican insurjentz if they get cought.
protect americas intrest now....a-man..lmj
USA, UK, ISRAEL....AXIS OF SUPREME EVIL. USA IS THE MOST EVIL OF EMPIRES THE WORLD HAS EVER SEEN.
Poet sounds like he-she has a personal stake in the outcome of our disputes. Perhaps he-she would like to email me and elucidate us as to his-her problem with our post. Does the fact that I spoke with a retired Federal Prosecutor bother him-her or perhaps the email from the Columnist? Please shed some light on what troulbes you and it won't hurt to have a spelling dictionary handy as I noticed you have quite a few grammatical errors on your posts.
Cordially,
S. Ray DeRusse
www.bccmeteorites.com
hairykiore
I guess my satire was too subtle. I was pointing out that we are just spending more money to do the same thing.