Hearts and minds still not won. "Insurgents vow to resist security pact," from AP, November 12 (thanks to James):
BAGHDAD (AP) — Ten Iraqi insurgent groups have agreed to escalate attacks against U.S. and Iraqi forces to derail the proposed U.S.-Iraqi security agreement, an Internet monitoring service said Tuesday.The declaration against "the agreement of disgrace" was announced Nov. 4 in an audio speech by Sheik Abu Wael, a top leader of the Sunni militant Ansar al-Sunnah, who invited other insurgent groups to join, the SITE Intelligence Group said.
The security agreement would keep U.S. soldiers in Iraq until 2012.
"Such kinds of agreements are not negated by mere statements of condemnation and denunciation," the sheik said. "Rather, there is necessity for work, jihad, fighting those forces the enemy and those who are loyal to them to recant this agreement"
In his speech, the sheik invited over 15 factions to join. Most of them posted statements accepting the invitation, SITE said.
Those groups also include the Jihad and Change Front, Islamic Army in Iraq, Hamas-Iraq, and the Mujahedeen Army in Iraq, SITE said.
Ansar al-Sunnah was established in September 2003 and is believed to have links to al-Qaida in Iraq. It claimed responsibility for the Dec. 21, 2004 suicide bombing of a U.S. dining hall in Mosul which killed 24 people, including 14 U.S. soldiers....
No surprises here. Those "hearts and minds" are slippery little suckers. Just when you think you're getting a grip, they slither away. Like a snake.
Another challenge for our new President.
Somehow Bush manages to wage a war/kill Mohammadans, and many of them still seem to love him, kissing Saudi's, holding hands with Bandar, praying in a mosque, hosting Ramadan dinners.
Bush has escaped the title 'Bush the Muslim killer', while he continues to kill many, and imprison others. This is actually quite an achievement.
I'm not so sure President Obama can pull that one off as well as Bush...
Bush has escaped the title 'Bush the Muslim killer', while he continues to kill many, and imprison others.
Not here he hasn't. Democrats continue to accuse him of killing hundreds of thousands of "innocent Muslims". The calls for him to face "justice" haven't ended. Democrats see Gitmo as one of his worst sins. It will be closed and the people brought to the US for trial. Watch them be released INTO the US.
Bush has escaped the title 'Bush the Muslim killer', while he continues to kill many, and imprison others.
PMK: Not here he hasn't. Democrats continue to accuse him of killing hundreds of thousands of "innocent Muslims".
PMK: I was talking about Mohammadans not democrats.
Mohammadans seem to like Bush more than democrats...When was the last time you saw a democrat kissing a Saudi?
Maybe Barack will break the ice...
Hurry up and escalate, lentil brains; there are officialy less than ten weeks left before the WOT is consigned to the oblivion of willful blindness, and we want to take-out as many of you goatsuckers [def: a nocturnal bird] as we can before then!