Comments on: Neocons Preparing The Ground For Petraeus Testimony By Hyping Threat Of Iran http://wonkroom.thinkprogress.org/2008/04/07/kagans-petraeus-testimony/ Thu, 26 Nov 2009 16:42:01 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: christopher wiwi http://wonkroom.thinkprogress.org/2008/04/07/kagans-petraeus-testimony/comment-page-1/#comment-544 christopher wiwi Mon, 07 Apr 2008 21:39:50 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/wonkroom/2008/04/07/kagans-petraeus-testimony/#comment-544 We all know the truth, the right is SPINNING out of control, they are going to crash and burn before November. We all know the truth, the right is SPINNING out of control, they are going to crash and burn before November.

]]> By: Bushie http://wonkroom.thinkprogress.org/2008/04/07/kagans-petraeus-testimony/comment-page-1/#comment-538 Bushie Mon, 07 Apr 2008 19:00:00 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/wonkroom/2008/04/07/kagans-petraeus-testimony/#comment-538 Your analysis is the best I’ve read from this side of the Atlantic (I guess?) Poor reporting is the standard on this confrontation, with reporters interchangeably using Iraq Army with Security forces and Police forces with partisan militia. Reporters generally fail to mention the Badr militia’s involvement or our propping up the assault with Special Forces. A US military spokesman Lieutenant Colonel Stover is calling the fighters “criminals.” Reporters without comment or context pass on this label. The military counts anyone killed or wounded as enemy or now, criminals Bushco is now involved in a civil war between competing Shia groups and in support of a weak coalition nominally headed by al-Maliki. I wonder when the Sunni get pissed enough to use the arms they stored during the invasion and arms supplied by the US for use against "Al-Qaeda in Iraq" and turn on the US, again? Your analysis is the best I’ve read from this side of the Atlantic (I guess?)

Poor reporting is the standard on this confrontation, with reporters interchangeably using Iraq Army with Security forces and Police forces with partisan militia. Reporters generally fail to mention the Badr militia’s involvement or our propping up the assault with Special Forces.

A US military spokesman Lieutenant Colonel Stover is calling the fighters “criminals.” Reporters without comment or context pass on this label. The military counts anyone killed or wounded as enemy or now, criminals

Bushco is now involved in a civil war between competing Shia groups and in support of a weak coalition nominally headed by al-Maliki. I wonder when the Sunni get pissed enough to use the arms they stored during the invasion and arms supplied by the US for use against “Al-Qaeda in Iraq” and turn on the US, again?

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